CONNECT Planning Committee Minutes for January 2012

In attendance: Angela Thornton, Barbara Johnson, Barbara Beasley, Kim Edwards, Susan Hutchins, Clyde Herrod, Debbie McPherson We finalized our agenda for the next forum on March 13th.

That forum will be held at the Service Center and will include a tour and a Q & A time with Books By Mail, ILL, CAT, and Tech Processing. We spoke with Pauline Rodriguez, Heidi Johnson, and Sharon Maine and explained how the forums normally work, the expected attendance, and how we could rotate the groups in a logistically feasible manner. Heidi will be out of the office during that time period, but will help arrange for someone to coordinate the tours. The current plan is to break the attendees up into three rotating groups, with two taking a tour and the third watching a powerpoint of the history of how these groups came to be at the Service Center and how the ideas behind the Service Center were developed. We will cap attendees at 30 participants due to parking and keeping a workable number of extra people in the building.

Pauline will be available to speak about and answer questions for ILL, CAT, and TP; Sharon will be available for Books By Mail; Kristin Hill may be available for helping with the tour and TP questions. Heidi and Pauline will coordinate these on-site details. Barbara Beasley will be the RSVP contact for managers to send names of attendees, and Clyde, Barbara B. and Susan will take care of snacks for the group.

The next Reader’s Advisory forum is set as follows:

Service Center Boot Camp March 13th at the Service Center from 2pm-4pm

2pm – Welcome and division into groups
2:10pm (or so) – start the rotating groups for the tours
3:10pm (or so) – Short break
3:15 – start Q & A