2023/03/07

Present: Adrien, Betts, Linda, Lewis

Minutes: Betts

  • SMG updates
    • Check-in about update and struggles with it
    • Aeon
    • Food and drink in reading room and consult room
      • General reading room policies that might be unclear
    • Department retreats
  • Management
  • Changes to Houghton Accessioning form for FY24 – Meg to lead
    • Books with archival collections
    • Making certain fields required
    • Larger structural change (Lewis suggested) - 
    • Meg will reach out to various stakeholders for meetings and go from there
  • March department meeting, review cultural norms, what else?
    • Jamboards for discussion
  • Mini-workshop on how to provide updates to your manager? (next meeting)
    • All-group setting
    • Discuss as a TS cultural norm
    • Have a workshop possibly with HR working with us
  • New workflow for auction purchases
    • Getting the accession form filled out ahead of receipt, makes movement of material easier and simplifies communication across departments
    • Currently piloting with a current purchase to assess
    • Driven by the different timing of payment with auction purchases
    • Think about how to manage this information for when Michael was out
  • Onboarding assessment: let’s follow-up with Max
    • Maybe better at 90 days
    • Adrien will create a form, can happen with HR 90 days
  • STW evaluation
    • Quick update on how it’s going
  • Supplies and form
    • See email from Naomi, if material gets ordered from the wrong person, it will be resent to the correct person and sender informed