August 4, 2003 SCOPA Meeting Minutes (Draft 1)

SCOPA Members Present

Mary Caldera (chair), Huei-Ju (Polly) Chang, Eric Friede, Cecile Mandour, Nancy Kuhl, Shawn Steidinger, Daniel Dollar. Absent: Stephen Jones.

Library Calendar

Andrew Gray is now managing the Yale Library events calendar. It is the responsibility of individual SCOPA members to contact Andrew with pertinent details of events they are planning on behalf of SCOPA.

Grants

An early call for grant proposals will be sent to the Library staff to ensure maximum participation in the SCOPA grants program.

SCOPA Forums

Discussion of upcoming forums included the following:

Mark Rosenzweig, editor of The Progressive Librarian and member of the Social Responsibility Roundtable, Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 2 pm.

Matthew Beacom, cataloging and FRBR, Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 2 pm.

Marvin Taylor, Director of the Fales Library at NYU will discuss the NYU Downtown New York Collection, Thursday, November 6, 2003, 2pm.

Dates are still to be determined for the following: University Librarian’s address to staff, Meg Bellinger, Diane Turner’s promotion meeting with M & P staff, international forum (will be planned for winter 2004).

SCOPA New Librarians Orientation

The possibility of a new name for the New Librarians Orientation was discussed, but as no better alternative was suggested, the original name was retained.

The committee discussed the following: reorganizing the meeting to allow more informal time to get to know new librarians, the imposition of a seating arrangement, the addition of SCOPA to member’s name badges, the possibility of using an “icebreaker” at the beginning of the meeting, the addition of the Learning Plan to our list of topics discussed, the possibility of changing and / or combining several elements of the program, the possible exclusion of the member of the staff association who has traditionally been invited, the possibility that all SCOPA members will not have a topic to speak about if we indeed reorganize the program. The committee will continue to discuss these issues at a future meeting.

Next Meeting

The next meeting is scheduled for August 25, 2pm, SML 410.