Strategic Planning, going Beyond Fake News, and Happy Trails
After nearly 30 years at the library, Susan Bacina will retire on December 1, 2017. She has worked in multiple areas of RAS (serials, monographs, and ILL) and has supported the library through her tireless work as Library Staff Association treasurer, attending OLA Support Staff Division conferences and acting as SSD Chair in 2010. Please stop by to thank Susan for her continuous dedication and wish her Happy Trails!
OSU Training Days is open for registration on November 7 and 8th at the LaSells Stewart Center. Check out their website to register for training.
The Strategic Planning group met again for 2.5 hours last Monday. In this meeting, we talked about how to integrate the data that we have already gathered to inform this process, and how we should make sure that we are using data -- from both inside and outside the library -- to answer questions and check our assumptions moving forward.
We also started to think about content of the plan, brainstorming ideas for potential goals or ambitions and looking at the existing plan to see what we want to build on. This raised an interesting question: How do we define goals for ourselves to address big problems that are not going to be solved over the course of our plan? We talked about how this might point to the need for a strategic plan that focuses on our ambitions, and how to think about those ambitions in a way that allows us to see and feel that we are making progress along the way.
In the next two weeks one small group will work on synthesizing the themes and goals we identified in our brainstorm. Another small group is going to look at strategic goals, visions and projects from all OSULP departments to see if any consistent themes or ideas emerge.
Thursday 10/19
4:00-6:00, SCARC reading room
Bring your imagination and curiosity about OSU and Corvallis-area Queer history to our 2nd annual Glitter in the Archives crafting showcase! This public event will feature archival materials to inspire collage-making and a chance to find more out more about the OSU Queer Archives (OSQA).
October 24, from 6 – 8 p.m. you’re invited to a special presentation celebrating the publication of The People’s School: A History of Oregon State University by William G. Robbins. The event will take place in Special Collections and Archives Reading Room, and includes a panel discussion with reception to follow.
Tuesday 10/31 from 12:00-1:00, Willamette Rooms
Sample the many flavors brought to campus by international student clubs! This annual public tasting of archived recipes will showcase dishes such as caldo verde, snake cake, lemon rice, and aloo gobi originally featured at cultural celebrations. These recipes can be found here along with many others, so if you want to prepare and share one of these at the event-that would be great! Being Halloween, the archival button fairy will haunt you with a free prize if you’re donned in your festive best.
This is a conversation with Kelly McElroy on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 6:00 pm at the Oregon Coast Community College community room at 400 SE College Way in the South Beach area of Newport. This program is hosted by all the libraries of the Lincoln County Library District and sponsored by Oregon Humanities.
Social Justice Education Initiative for Fall term! The SJEI is a professional development program from Academic Affairs for all OSU faculty, staff, and graduate students aimed at building knowledge about equity and inclusion, and developing intercultural competencies. In addition to the platform curriculum, comprised of Session One and Session Two, there are new shorter workshops that explore specific topics with more depth. Now is a great time to build your equity and inclusion skills! Custom and unit-level delivery is possible in addition to these general workshops. Space is limited, register today http://oregonstate.edu/training/course_list.php?cat_id=46
Metadata LT3 – The
committee has given the hiring manager a report & we’ll be offering for the
position soon.
Monograph Acquisitions LT3 – On hold.
Serials Acquisitions LT3 – Closed with 14 applicants. The committee is meeting this week
to decide which applicants to interview.
Cataloging LT3 – Closed with 22 applicants. The committee is planning to schedule
interviews with four applicants in the next couple of weeks.
Cataloging LT3 – On hold.
Circulation LT2 – Christie Surprise-Tolj is the new LT2 in Circulation--please join us in welcoming her on her first day (TODAY)!
Science Librarian – The committee has two on-campus interviews
scheduled for early November.
Resource Sharing/CM
Unit Manager – On-campus interviews are scheduled for October 26th
and 27th.
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.”
― Willard Scott
Can you guess the animal’s person?
This doggo’s name is Lakshmi. Lakshmi was adopted from the Heartland Humane Society when she was still a young pup and liked to chew things such as sweaters and leashes. Lakshmi loves to meet people, and her goal in life is to make friends with everyone. Lakshmi is the name of the Hindu goddess of prosperity. Lakshmi the dog was named after the Indian vocalist Lakshmi Shankar.
Answers can be shared with colleagues and guessed among the office. Next week’s newsletter will have the owner’s name. Last week’s pet was Don Frier’s pup, Belial.
Happy October!
We have been working on re-launching the TREC meetings under a slightly different banner. Instead of rotating between departments and units, we are going to schedule topical meetings. It will be on us to work with all of you to develop meetings around shared issues, problems and opportunities. And while we will be sure to invite those most closely affected by the topics under discussion, all of these meetings will always be open to anyone interested. The first one will be next week (Thursday the 19th) and will take up the question of liaison work -- we will be looking at how we define the liaison role, figuring out when it is appropriate to share and collaborate on this work, and think about how we'll capture and report on what we're doing.
There is more information in our planning space. (link:https://wiki.library.oregonstate.edu/confluence/display/APA/October+19%2C+2017+TREC+Planning
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