Library Media Studies Department Meeting Minutes

April 14, 2014

Present: Jan Lowman, Rebecca Leonhard, Wes Goldsberry

1. Library fines--Will and Rebecca agreed to roll out this initiative at the beginning of next school year.

2. Cowbell Awards--find info on each of the nominated books.

3. Inventory--Rebecca will be giving Jan the tricoder so that Scott and Jan can get to work on the Belle Époque collection. Thus far, there are 1100 items missing, and we have not yet done any Fiction or Nonfiction.

4. OVERDRIVE. Rebecca has been working on starting up our ebook system. We need to add an extra feature to Mandarin for ebooks. It’s moving forward slowly.

5. Jan explained the serendipitous addition of Michelle Helfenstein to the BEC library staff. She’ll be doing the “late hours” until 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

6. We discussed the issue of library coops being used by other departments. We don’t want them to be overloaded and/or taken advantage of.

7. The library will now have a regular slot for announcements in assembly.

8. Math teacher access (to Mathematics Teacher within JSTOR) is currently being restored. There was some trouble with the bills still being sent to Glenn.

9. Jan will talk to Kim Oppenheim again about her friend’s donated books.

10. Wes congratulated the department for our successful TGIF last Friday afternoon.