Departmental Meeting Minutes
Date: 3rd, February, 2016
Attendance: Rebecca, Amanda, Scott, and Eleni
Agenda:
- Sunday duty hours for long weekends after vacations & long weekends when student check-in is at 9 p.m.
- It was agreed that we would not have duty hours after long weekends
- This will go into effect with the first long weekend of the year on February 12th-14th
- Renewal of EasyBib/Imagine Easy Scholar
- Trial of Imagine Easy Scholar
- Undecided if we should renew EasyBib/Imagine Easy Scholar or if it is time to switch to a new product
- Amanda, Rebecca, Eleni and Scott will investigate other products including NoodleTools, Zotero or another free website such as Citation Machine etc.
- Budget
- Waiting on Accounting to get current report of spending; will continue purchases once report is received and corrected
- Plan to spend remaining budget by end of March
- Remainder of year to receive POs, invoices, etc. & make sure all money is spent
- BE Updates
- All mother tongue books have been catalogued and are now on the shelves
- Amanda drew up an idea to have all the weeded ACS books curve around the three archways that face the librarian’s desk at BE Library
- She will proceed with this project this term
- Savoy Updates
- Eleni is in the process of stamping, covering book jackets, and pulling books with handwritten spine labels from the nonfiction section
- Janet is in the process of replacing spine labels in the nonfiction section
- Rebecca is handling cataloging issues, accounting issues, fines and maternity leave coverage.
