Graduate Assistant Orientation Fall 2012

GENERAL ORIENTATION

Thursday, August 16, 2012    

66 Library

8:30 am - 8:40

 Welcome,  Associate University Librarian, Tom Teper

 8:40 am - 9:00 am

Diversity Orientation

9:00 am – 10:15 am

 Structure of the Library/Organizational Culture & Introduction to the major library tools, Merinda Hensley

 10:15 am – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am– 10:50am

 Service Behaviors, Beth Woodard, Staff Development and Training

10:50 am- noon

Working in the Library, Cindy Kelly, Head, Library Human Resources

noon to 1:30 pm

 lunch on your own

291 Undergraduate  Library

 1:30 - 4:00 pm  with break

Finding Books—Karen Hogenboom &  Kathleen Kern  (Easy Search, VuFind, Voyager OPAC, I-Share, WorldCat, E-books, ILL )

4:00 -5:00 pm

 Voyager Circulation, Peggy Glatthaar  and Rand Hartsell

Friday, August 17, 2012

291 Undergraduate Library

 8:30 –  11:15 am  (Break included)

Reference Interview and practice– David Ward and Susan Avery and Kathleen Kern

Instruction in Reference—Susan Avery

Break will be provided.

11:15- noon

Prepared instructional tools to help you with Reference—Learn Site/Lib Guides—Merinda Hensley and Susan Avery

noon – 1:30

Lunch on your own

1:30  – 2:45

Online Reference Tools and practice reference questions, Mark Wardecker

2:45 – 3:00 pm

Break

3:00 – 4:00 pm

Circulation Policies, Rand Hartsell

4:00 - 4:30 pm

 Bookstacks Tour -- 2nd floor Main Library

Monday, August 20, 2012

291 Undergraduate Library

 8:30 – 10:30 am

Introduction to Library Database Searching—Susan Avery

10:30 – 10:45 am

 Break

 10:45-12:00

Introduction to finding Articles and Journals -- (Easy Search: Journal & Article Finder; Primo)—  Kathleen Kern and Jenny Emanuel

12:00 -1:30 pm

 Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Chat reference – David Ward and Kathleen kern

3:00 - 3:15 pm

 Break

3:15 – 3:45 pm

Reference Referrals – David Ward, Bill Mischo, Kathleen Kern

3:45 - 4:15 pm

 Desk Tracker-- David Ward and Kathleen Kern

4:15 – 5:00 pm

Schedule Source – David Ward and Kathleen Kern

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

 291 Library

 8:30-9:30

Lexis Nexis—Karen Hogenboom

9:30-10:30

 RefWorks – Mark Wardecker

 10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-noon

 Hands-on with the Library Web page and tools, Jenny Emanuel

noon – 1:00 pm

 Lunch on your own

  Library 66

1:00 – 2:15 pm

GAs as Supervisors—Megan Hayes, David Ward

2:15 – 2:30 pm

Break

2:30 – 4:00 pm

How to de-escalate issues—Mike Schlosser

4:00- 5:00 pm

Fire extinguisher training—Jeremy Leevey

Thursday, August 23, 2012

291 UGL

9:00 am – 12:30 pm

CMS training—Camilla Fulton

Lunch on your own

 314 Library

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Voyager Acquisitions 

3:15 – 4:45 am

Voyager Cataloging 

Friday, August 24, 2012

8:30 am to 2 pm   

GSLIS Orientation