Here are the topics that have come up at previous cookfire meetings.
May 2019
- Project management tools
- Kanbanflow is good for individual tasks/projects/workflows, but not so great for communicating and collaborating with others
- When do you have quiet time in the year? Do you ever?
- (Attendee consensus seemed to be there is no quiet time)
- Discussion of and desire for increased documentation, better planning and communication, in general
April 2019
- OERs after dark
- Offering information sessions for faculty after regular business hours when they might be more willing to attend
- How can we educate faculty more?
- Maybe develop an information/learning series for new faculty?
- Find ways to get faculty to visit or “touch” the library multiple times over their first year
- Tap into themes and opportunities that already exist (i.e. whatever the theme of the next January Conference is going to be)
- 50th anniversary of the library building will be celebrated this Fall (2019)
- Any ideas for how we could celebrate?
- TigerReels (Leisure Viewing Collection)
- Content Management student worker had some free time, so she has been helping to catalog the films
- What is the plan for the future of the collection? What do we say if/when people request new titles be added to the collection?
- Summer IT project
- Replacing the classroom computers
- Looking into computer vandalism (e.g. unplugging cords and not plugging them back in, stealing keyboards and mice)
- Database descriptions provided on the website
- The style and length of the descriptions varies from one to the next
- Interest in gathering a group together to review the descriptions for general content databases (not discipline-specific databases), revise the descriptions, and test them out with stakeholders
- Would serve as a model for liaison librarians for their subject-specific databases
- Ideas for cloud-based project management tools and website content revisions
March 2019
- Plans to update and clean up the Ref Portal on SharePoint
- Desire to improve services with students with disabilities
- Conducting a needs assessment
- ebooks
- What language should we use to describe and indicate titles we have permanent access to?
- What can we do to educate faculty about our licenses/access models/nature of ebooks?
- Publicizing OERs to faculty
- Educate them and demonstrate their viability
- But how to get faculty to show up to be educated?