X-Change Meeting Minutes for March 30, 2009

X-Change Meeting Minutes

Date: March 30, 2009

Time: 3:30pm

Location: Belle Isle Library

Those in Attendance:

Not recorded

Culture Survey Debriefing

Cathy McCullough presented the Metropolitan Library System’s culture survey results. Everyone split up into groups and was asked to discuss and make notes on the following questions:

1. What commonalities do you see among the strengths?
2. What commonalities do you see among the weaknesses?
3. What are some ways in which these strengths and weaknesses impact the functioning of the library system?
4. As a system, how can we leverage our strengths to improve our weaknesses without undercutting these strengths?

After discussing the system-wide results, Cathy distributed results of each divisional cut’s results. Groups were formed by divisional cut to review their results.

The supervisors were charged with taking the results back to their staff and asking the same discussion questions. Each supervisor is to bring back a collection of staff responses to the May 19th X-Change meeting.

Attached are the following:

• The notes from the supervisor group discussions regarding the system wide results
• A slide from Cathy’s PowerPoint about possible debriefing questions to use in the staff meetings
• The letter from Donna to the Supervisors regarding the staff meetings on divisional cuts