CONNECT Forum Archive

Meeting Information:

Date: December 11, 2012
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Southern Oaks Library

Join with fellow librarians around the system for an afternoon of camaraderie and information sharing. Our profession is rapidly changing before our eyes and, like it or not, we’ve got to change with it while holding on to our core values. In this session we’ll be examining our professional identity as librarians as we have open-ended discussions about what it is we do and why we do it.

We’ll have a fun small-group activity to get us rolling and then later we’ll use media representations of librarians to kick off a discussion about who librarians really are, what our core values are and how we can use that information to improve our performance. Think about your favorite library characters from books, television, and film and be ready to share and discuss.

Who Aren’t You Serving?

September 11th at Del City from 2pm-4pm

Bring ideas and questions to this meeting about how you have reached out to people in your community who weren’t already in the library or who you want to reach but aren’t sure how to do it. We’ll brainstorm and share some thoughts about how we can help each other connect with our communities. Sign up with your supervisor!

The next CONNECT forum for librarians will be Tuesday, June 12th, at 2pm at the Northwest Library.  The topic for this forum is "The Changing Face of Reference."  We'll take a tour of Northwest to see how they have incorporated changes in reference service in the new building and then have group discussions about these and other changes to reference services in the field of librarianship.  You can sign up to attend through your supervisor.

Power Point presentation—What Cataloging/Tech Processing used to look like as well as the changes in their work statistics.

Department Tours—The group divided into three groups and rotated through the various departments. Pauline Rodriguez-Atkins handled Cataloging and Interlibrary Loan, Kristin Hill lead the tour through Tech Processing, and Sharon Maine explained Books by Mail and the Book Centers.