Departmental Meeting Minutes
Date: 8th March, 2016
Attendance: Rebecca, Amanda, Scott, and Eleni
Agenda:
- Renewal of EasyBib/Imagine Easy Scholar
- Narrow it down to a couple and approach department heads and faculty for their input. Shall we make a Google Form?
- NoodleTools looks to be the best option.
- Rebecca extended Noodletools trial until April 8th.
- Price quote is $315/year from the date of subscription.
- Choices have been narrowed down: NoodleTools, Citation Machine, Zotero (possible extension service), RefMe.
- Eliminated Mendeley, Imagine Easy Scholar, and KnightCite.
- Will approach department heads to form a committee or ask department heads first for volunteers to make a committee.
- Possibly use Google Form.
- Rebecca will email department heads before spring break.
- Hiring Update
- Offered two prospects an interview to cover Rebecca when she goes on maternity leave.
- One has a library degree from Portugal. She turned down the offer because she found a more permanent position.
- Still considering applicants.
- Another local person was suggested, but she has not formally applied.
- Rebecca will talk with Phil about it.
- Mathematics Teacher
- Cancelled our subscription of “Mathematics Teacher” through JSTOR.
- Budget
- Budget is reconciled with accounting.
- Now we can spend the remainder of the budget.
- BE Update
- Possible purchase of an electric stapler.
- Order Portuguese books and other mother tongue books.
- Making proposals to improve BE Library through creative projects, but were rejected.
- Possibility of renovating, adding floor to ceiling bookcases, book archways.
- Amanda has been making perspective drawings and will continue to draft proposals.
- Savoy Update
- Completed handwritten spine labels replacing in the NF section.
- Stamped NF and children's section. Began Mother Tongue and Reference sections.
- Rebecca has been teaching Janet about collection development, ILS, etc. to help when Rebecca goes on maternity leave.
- Rebecca has been working on budgets and ordering.
- Preparing library lecture in April.
- Waiting to talk to Hugh about the Economist subscription.
