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!
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.
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.
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.
I 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!
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/
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
Come Monday May 17 the LIS Technology Helpdesk will be relocating from LIB135 to LIB125. Our actual move of Helpdesk functions will begin Friday May 14 at 3:00pm. While the Helpdesk functions are being relocated to LIB125 the Helpdesk Student Consultants located at our Walk-In Helpdesk Center in LIB202 will be open for business to receive calls and process problems. The staff during the relocation will be engaged in the move. There should be minimal impact to our users during this move and we are confident that we will be back in full operation late Monday morning May 17. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding during this transition time.
James Beauchemin x2019
Technology Help and Support Manager
In the interest of sharing this much anticipated plan with everyone as soon as possible, below please see the LIS Staff Relocation Plan that LIS Administration approved this afternoon. It’s a working document, not a formal one, so please excuse any name abbreviations or spelling errors. It shows where LIS staff will be located on three floors of the Davis Family Library. In the coming days we will work with Facilities Services to turn this plan into a move schedule and we will share that schedule widely as soon as possible.
As you know, we are undertaking these moves as soon as possible because the College needs us to vacate the 2nd floor of Voter Hall so that it can be turned into student housing before students arrive for the fall semester.
Thanks to everyone who worked with their managers to help draft the plan, and thanks especially to those who were given few, if any options because our options were generally very limited. Having said that however, I believe that many of the location changes will be improvements in the long run. Thanks for your continued patience and forbearance. Stay tuned…. and here it is….