Present: Chris Weideman, chair, Suzanne Eggleston (recorder), Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Gillian Goldsmith, Jim Shetler
Absent: Bill Fray, Xin Li, Diane Turner
The meeting was called to order at 11:30.
The next meeting will be June 18.
A. Bridget Burke has had to resign as she does not have enough student help. Chris will contact Diane about Bridget's replacement. Bridget will still work to present the forum on the Connecticut Center for the Book.
Peter Hernon, Simmons U., School of Library Science, spoke on May 8 on a "Customer Service Quality Improvement Model."
Linda Lorimer, University Secretary, on the University's Tercentennial, confirmed for Tuesday, June 9.
Last year's grant recipients' presentation, set for Wednesday, June 17.
Paul Bracken, Political Science Dept., who teaches a web-based course on strategy, technology, and warfare, about Information Warfare, confirmed for June 22.
Ed Harris, Southern Connecticut State University, Library School, on the past present and future of library science, will be on a Thursday, either July 9 or 23. Chris will confirm.
Ethelene Whitmire, Librarian in Residence, on critical thinking skills, can present on a Thursday, either July 9 or 23. Once Ed Harris has chosen a date, Suzanne will confirm the other with Ethelene.
Fall Forums:
SCOPA will chair the New Librarians Orientation Program
Suzanne & Diane will arrange for a forum on the Faculty Support Program, perhaps the first week of December.
Bridget will arrange for the Connecticut Center of the Book forum in November.
Chris & Bill will work on the Library as a Learning Organization forum.
We will ask the new AUL to speak, as well as the new Social Sciences Head Librarian, sometime in the fall after they have settled in.
We need to choose a speaker-related forum topic, dealing with libraries and information technology, perhaps a director of one of the new merger Library/Information Technology departments. We will need to come up with a list of names by mid-July.
Yale Press: what do we want to learn from them in a forum? Discussion followed with a mid-September date tentatively chosen.
Discussion of a possible forum or other format (bag lunches; discussion groups?) on topics of interest to Librarians I & II. What do they want to discuss? Who would come? Epxpectations and Realities of working at Yale? We need to talk to some LIs & LIIs to refine this idea.
The Survey on Committees done by SCOPA last year has been passed on.
Submitted by Suzanne Eggleston 6/17/98