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Children's Services Meeting - January 2015

Introductions were made.

Family Place

Jessica Gonzalez (DN) shared information about her recent trip with Kristin Williamson (OUT) to the Family Place Institute. She distributed handouts. Kristin will provide a login for printable resources from the Family Place website. The target of Family Place is babies and toddlers (0-5 years). A discussion was held about toys and family friendly children’s areas. Various staff shared best practices and specific toys (panels, puzzles, blocks) that they have found useful. Two Family Place videos were shown. A MAC request for play signs is in the works.

Managers of Library Operations - November 2014

Open Discussion
Follow-up (from October Meeting) – Kay Bauman

Paperbacks
Kay shared information regarding paperbacks becoming reservable.  She indicated that the original intent of the uncataloged paperback was to have a browsing collection inside of the library and there were fewer funds available to purchase them.  Additionally, many were gifts.  Carl X was unable to accommodate the uncataloged paperbacks so we now do minimum cataloging, Karen calls them ‘minicats’.  Following the original intent of the collection they are not reservable. 

Booking Conference Rooms

As you know, our meeting room booking policies and procedures changed as of June 1. These procedures include the way we reserve spaces for internal meetings and training as well as meetings and events for customers.

For those of you who plan and reserve space for internal meetings and training, in the Brawner Conference Room, 3rd Floor Conference Room and Metro U Training Room at Downtown or the conference room at the Service Center, we have a new reservation procedure. We will no longer use the manual calendars for these meeting spaces.

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Commission Packet - June 2014

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Commission Packet

Circulation Forum Minutes - May 2014

Kay gave a brief history of the Circulation Forum and its purposes. The group first met in November 2009. Their stated goals/purposes are as follows:

Improve consistency of policy and procedural adherence amongst MLS locations.
To provide a system-wide venue of communication for circulation clerks.
Platform for sharing ideas.
To put circulation clerks in position to where they can hear information first-hand.

PCS Forum - April 2014

Kay Bauman provided an overview of the upcoming changes within the MLS. The system’s ultimate goal is to provide better customer service. The library will be leveraging the staff and new technologies to meet the goal. Kay discussed three major changes coming within the next few months:

I. Evanced – Kay stated the library has purchased three software solutions from Evanced.

Ad-Team Meeting Minutes - March 5, 2014

Administration / Commission - The By-laws Committee meeting scheduled for Monday, March 3rd was cancelled due to inclement weather. The Administration Office is working on scheduling a new date for the meeting.

Donna emailed the carpet installation schedule with details on how this would affect staff working Downtown. Curtiss Ray – Maintenance Facilities Manager, will deliver portable shelves, boxes, and other materials needed prior to the carpet installation. Kim Terry stated a press release will be sent out today to notify the public on closing.

YA Services Retreat Meeting Minutes - March 2014

Janet encouraged everyone to do more displays in their libraries and to share their great displays via MyMetrolibrary so others can enjoy and learn from the displays. She encouraged everyone to try to make displays that use more than one genre of books.
Janet discussed a really cool book display at CH where they did book spine poetry and encouraged the customers to add and change the poems that were created.
There is a free weeding tips webinar March 25 at 1:00 pm. This webinar could be a useful tool to use.

Children's Services Meeting Minutes for February 2014

Kristin created a display of some of the award winning books (Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Belpré, Geisel, & Seibert awards) for librarians to look at and check out as they wanted. Kristin is starting to plan for Fall 1-2-3 Play With Me and passed a sign-up sheet for librarians to choose when they would like to have it at their library. For those who did not commit dates at the meeting can let Kristin know their dates by the end of February. The City County Health Department has resource professionals in Child Guidance available for a fee and Nutritionists which are free.

*UPDATED* Timeline for conversions to Summer Reader, Signup, Spaces & TLC

I suspect you may have additional questions about our next steps with regard to all of the upcoming moves toward using new software for events and reserving meeting rooms as well as the new ILS.  At this time there are some answers and still tons of questions.  Here is what we have decided so far:

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