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Run, Don’t Walk…

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

If you don’t have one yet, run to purchase a ticket to WIND IN THE WILLOWS put on by the Little City Players at the Vergennes Opera House.   Arabella Holzapfel, Mike Lynch and Mack Roark are superb in this production.  I saw it on Sunday afternoon and will try and go again.  It’s absolutley magical.

October 22 & 23  at 8:00pm; October 24 at 2:00pm.  Tickets are $12 general admission, $6 children 8 & under. Available at the Vergennes Opera House, Classic Stitching & www.brownpapertickets.com.

Summary of Staffing Changes within LIS

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

In the past 18 months, LIS has gone through a set of major staffing changes.  25 people  have left LIS, seven have been promoted within LIS,   four have jointed LIS from other parts of the College, and three have joined us from elsewhere. In addition, there are 5 positions that are still open.   Collectively, we have lost over five hundred years of experience!  Our FTE level has dropped from an all-time high of 104 to 83.5. For those who are interested in how we are now organized, you can find an organizational chart at http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/lis/about/organization . We’ve also listed below the names and titles of the promotions and new hires.

Promotions
Kellam Ayres to Circulation Services Coordinator, Reserves
Steve Bertolino to Reference & Instruction Librarian
Charlie Conway to Media Services Specialist 2
Dan Frostman to Circulation Services Manager
Jess Isler to Reference & Instruction Librarian
Mike Lynch to Area Director, Central Systems & Network Services
Carrie Macfarlane to Head of Reference & Instruction
Petar Mitrevski  to Tech Media/Services Manager
Scott Witt to Media Services Specialist 2

New Hires from within Middlebury
Joe Durante, Technology Specialist,  from Dining
Kim Gurney, Circulation Services Specialist, from Facilities
Danielle Madison, Media Specialist,  from Facilities
Janine McDonald , Circulation Services Specialist, from Career Services

New Hires from elsewhere
Danna Gianforte – Area Director, Enterprise Applications
Dennis Hadley – Senior Technology Specialist
Matt LaFrance – Web Programmer
Positions Still to be Filled
Collection Development Acquisitions and Cataloging Manager
Database Administrator
Senior Technology Specialist
Network/Security Administrator
System Programmer Administrator

New Circ Staff!

Please join me in welcoming Janine McDonald to LIS! Janine is a new Library Circulation Services Specialist II and will be working Sunday-Thursday evenings. She will be officially starting on June 21st, but will be around doing some training between now and then. Janine comes to LIS by way of the Career Services office, and we are very excited to have her as part of Circulation!

Former library staff member dies

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

Anna Berry, a former library staff member in Starr Library in the 1970′s, died of a stroke on Tuesday, June 1.  She was part of a team that converted our book collection from Dewey classification to the LC call numbers currently in use.

Exhibited 2010: LIS Arts & Crafts (June 9-28)

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

The 2nd Annual LIS Arts & Crafts Exhibit (“Exhibited 2010″) will be held in the Atrium of the Davis Family Library June 9th-June 28th. The Opening Reception will be held at 4PM Wednesday, June 9th. All are welcome to see and hear the artistic and musical talents of LIS staff.

Exhibited 2010 Poster

Orientation for New LIS Staff

Categories: LIS Staff Interest
Here’s a rough list of ideas that we developed at a recent meeting to figure out how we can systematically make sure that all of our new LIS staff members are provided with opportunities to learn about LIS and the College.
  1. Revive the new employee handbook–> Carol thinks she might have a copy of this somewhere.
  2. Find a moment for each new staff member to review the recently launched strategic planning website
  3. Invite new staff members to already regularly scheduled staff meetings for the various work areas in order to provide them some insight into what the various work areas do –> we would need a good list of such meetings and when they occur to make this happen
  4. create a somewhat informal mentoring program that gives new LISers a person to turn to for questions   –>we need to identify someone to make this happen
  5. make sure that all new staff member get to meet everyone in their area on their first day of work, and everyone in LIS within the first month of work (see also increased social activities)
  6. have a monthly or bi-monthly lunch/coffee to introduce new people and provide a chance for new people to ask questions/learn
  7. find out more about what happens at the HR orientation to avoid duplication
  8. share the HR checklist for supervisors of new employees and develop our own checklist (based on this) that supplements that checklist
  9. consider developing an internal to LIS facebook-like thingy that would allow everyone in LIS to share information about themselves with new staff members (their job duties, their work histories, their photos, and if willing, their personal interests/hobbies)
  10. increase the number of all-LIS social activities in order to encourage interaction across work groups
  11. encourage work groups to host open houses for their areas to educate others about what they do
  12. use all-LIS staff meetings to repeatedly introduce new folks, and vice versa, think of creative ways to allow new folks to meet the rest of us
  13. provide new hires with a list of 10 people that they really should meet in their first 100 days of employ

Please feel free to make further suggestions using the comments below. It isn’t clear that there will be time or energy or interest to do all of these things.  For now we just want to continue to brainstorm ideas.

Kim Gurney joins LIS

flowers for kimI am delighted to announce that Kim Gurney will be joining LIS as Circulation Services Specialist I on June 7th. Kim brings a wealth of customer service, project management and supervisory experience to the position. She will share responsibility for providing front desk circulation, information and borrowing services in collaboration with other staff in Circulation. After a 2-week training and orientation period, Kim will be working a regular Tuesday through Saturday daytime schedule at the Davis Family Library. Please stop by to say hello!

May all-LIS staff meeting agenda

Categories: LIS Staff Interest

LIS May Staff Meeting Agenda

We have a staff meeting on Wednesday May 19th from 3-4PM in the Harman Reading Room. Here’s the agenda:
1. Announcements

2. Strategic Planning Website
https://sites.google.com/a/middlebury.edu/lis-strategic-planning/

3. Assessment and Re-accreditation
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYZPHKugPdOiZGNzdDV0aDNfMjVnNnpma2ZmMg&hl=en

4. Introduction of New Teams: Space, Security, Training & Education
http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/lis/about/teams

We’ll have coffee available at 2:45.

– mike