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Staff Development and Training Committee minutes September 5, 2006

Staff Development and Training

September 5, 2006

Present:  Donna Hoffman, Diana Walter, Joseph Zumalt, Lyn Petrie, Beth Woodard, Helen Zhou, Shuyong Jiang  

Absent:  Karen Hogenboom, Susan Schnuer, Lisa Hinchliffe

Training needs perceived by the committee:

Technology training

• Access—intermediate level, short cut tips
• Excel—intermediate level, short cut tips
• Dreamweaver—basic, intermediate
• Cascading Style Sheets—basic, intermediate
• Thunderbird email system
• CITES
  • Netfiles
  • Spam filtering
  • Oracle Calendar (Note:  Diana Walter and Lyn Petrie don’t have access to Oracle calendar)

Customer Service

Time management

• Repeat session offered by Terry Lowe last year

Stress Management

            Shi Gong session should be repeated, if possible

How to manage your boss

• 16 people attended
• Lyn suggested this session be repeated, as this is a constant cultural divide.

PPP training for librarians

• The union agreed to the renewal by only 2 votes
• Significant number of librarians are not giving positive feedback

Ask:  What sort of training do you need in order to do your job better?

Also, suggestion regarding job advancement, How to make yourself promotable? Or Navigating the Classification System.  Another suggestion was :  Training your replacement

Writing instruction sheets for your own job

Another suggestion was to have a Wiki for staff training so that people can share the materials they have created, such as:

Serials claiming in EbscoNet

Student time sheets in Banner

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