Staff Training and Organizational Development
Committee(STOD) Present: George Stranz, Rick Zwies, Diane Kaplan, Roy Bohlander, Fred
Martz, Ruth Carruth
Lyte Bytes Members: Roy Bohlander, Stephanie Sherry, and Shaundolyn Slaughter Stephanie reported via e-mail on the success of the SFX training class that took place on October 19. Approximately 10 people participated. Roy mentioned that the participants suggested that the class be more hand-on. The PDA class is still in the planning stages for November. Shaundolyn is coordinating this class. There was discussion on whether the announcement was sent via e-mail as not everyone on the committee received it. The Job Chat involving the Integrated Library Technology Services was
rescheduled to December 2, from 10:30-12 noon and is to be held in the
SML Lecture Hall. Roy is coordinating it. The announcement is ready and
will be sent out the week of November 8. There will be four panelists:
Fred Martz, Karen Reardon, Xinjian Guo or Gail Barnett, and Deborah Falvey.
The registration form is ready on the Library Course Registration website. January’s activities are to be decided at a later date. A possibility discussed is a lunchtime film screening. The next meeting of this subcommittee is during the week of November 15th. Staff Resource Library (SRL) Members: Diane Kaplan and George Stanz George and Diane met and came up with new subject terms for the library. These terms were more focused on the core competencies with a few exceptions (Heath and Organizational Development). George did a search in Orbis using “Staff Resource Library” as a keyword phrase and found titles tagged for the SRL that are not listed in SRL and visa versa. We discussed the disadvantages of the Staff Resource Library as it currently exists. As a flat file, it limits the type of sorting that can be done by the user and it limits the number of subjects per title to one. We discussed the possibility of using Orbis instead of the current flat file. Also, the question of provenance came up. How would we indicate which items were purchased with SRL funds. Currently, there is no designated selector in RSC for the items to be purchased with SRL funds. Diane and/or George will contact Joan Swanekamp regarding the cataloguing issues.
Members: Fred Martz and Kate Reynolds Fred and Kate have not met since the last STOD meeting. They will meet on a future date. STOD Website Members: Rick Zwies, Ruth Carruth, and Kate Reynolds Rick, Ruth, and Kate have not met since the last STOD meeting due to scheduling conflicts. Rick hopes to have a wireframe of the redesigned STOD website by the end of November. Rick, Ruth, and Kate will most likely comment, make suggestions, and edit the website via e-mail. A demonstration of the new STOD website will take place during the next meeting, December 15. Diane will try to get a regular meeting room so we can demo the website on a larger screen. As an aside, we discussed the Staff Front Door. We discussed the webpage for Staff Development Resources under the Quicklinks list that includes pages for Instruction Resources and STOD. Since this seemed redundant (as STOD is listed under the Departments and Committees heading), it was decided that we would remove this link and replace it with the link for Instruction Resources. Ruth will contact Emily Horning regarding this page. Respectively submitted, Ruth Carruth
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