Happy Halloween

Witch staff member is that?
Oh, man, who let another another bat in Bailey/Howe?

Minutes from the Libraries' Annual Meeting

Please see this link for Chris Krupp's minutes from the Libraries Annual Meeting on Oct. 22.
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgb55c24_34gmmfhz

Day Trippers

Birdie took this photo at the Saint Johnsbury Athenaeum during a meeting of the Vermont Catalogers Round Table. About 35 catalogers from around the state of Vermont attended.

Tech Services Working Group Updates

Tina Kussey (chair), Sandy Aldrich, Larry Dubois, Toni Fortini, Albert Joy, and Jeanene Light.

The TSWG has been meeting weekly since September. At this stage, the group is primarily gathering data about technical services departments, including statistical data points and notes on workflows. The members first worked with bindery and end processing staff to gather data about their departments, and are now focusing on Bailey/Howe and Dana acquisitions functions.

The TSWG will develop scenarios that more efficiently and effectively serve patrons (and possibly increase staff/faculty capacity), and identify one as their recommendation to the Dean. All scenarios and recommendations will be presented to the Dean in December.

Libraries Annual Meeting

Here is the agenda for the 2007 Annual Library Meeting, which will be on Monday, October 22nd, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Bailey/Howe Library staff lounge, with light refreshments served from 8:30 a.m. This is our annual opportunity to hear reports from our Dean, and our division leaders on developments in their respective divisions. It is also their opportunity to introduce their new personnel, so if you are new to the Libraries since the last annual meeting (November 6, 2006), please be on hand to meet the rest of the library staff.
Thanks. -- Larry Dubois
This Agenda is set as of Monday, Oct. 22 by the committee.

AGENDA

Annual Library Meeting

Monday, October 22, 2007

Bailey/Howe Library staff lounge

8:30 a.m. Light refreshments

9:00 a.m. Meeting comes to order

Mara Saule, Dean

Keith Gresham, Information and Instruction

Birdie MacLennan, Collection Management

Paul Philbin, Access and Technology

Jeffrey Marshall, Special Collections

Marianne Burke, Dana Medical Library

Darcelene Lewis-Wedge, Treasurer’s report

Other business

Meeting adjourns

CMS Director Search Underway with New Title

The search committee for the position of Director of Information Resources Management has been named and the process is underway. Although the position title has changed, the department name remains the same (Collection Management Services).

The committee includes:

• Keith Gresham (chair)
• Larry Dubois
• Jeanene Light (faculty standards committee rep)
• Winona Salesky
• Peter Spitzform
• Sharon Thayer
• Juliet Young

Discovery & Delivery Council Charged, and Ready

During a meeting this morning, Mara met with the newly-formed Discovery and Delivery Council, consisting of Chair Peter Spitzform, Donna O'Malley, Selene Colburn, Winona Salesky, Daisy Benson, Elizabeth Hassemer, Laura Haines and Fran Delwiche.
"I'm really excited that this council is getting started," Peter says. "It's a great group, and we're all intensely interested in exploring how we can make our patrons' experience ever better and richer as they use the library catalog and a variety of our other tools. We will make every effort to keep everyone posted about what we're doing on this blog and elsewhere."

Dean's Council Takes a Field Trip

The Dean's Council took a field trip to Williston to witness the space and its contents. The place is spotless and in perfect order, thanks to Scott Miller. And more collections are to come, with Birdie and Keith working on a plan for what should go where and when.