L-net training committee meeting – Jan. 24, 2007

Present: Emily, Caleb; Lori, Loree, Deborah by phone


Training Report

Emily reported that she was supposed to do a training in West Linn but they had to cancel due to staffing shortages. They are still interested and already have two librarians staffing service.

Emily will go to Ashland March 1st and 2nd. 5 SOU librarians and 2 from JCLS are signed up. Publicizing in the SOLF newsletter, the editor had resigned so may not be able to get on listserv.

Emily asked if anyone at JCLS is interested in volunteering. Lori will ask around and have interested folks contact Emily.

Emily is trying to organize a meeting for the volunteers. This would be a combination of transcript evaluation and general questions about the software and service. She will use this meeting as a model for future trainings.

She is still trying to connect with Milwaukee high school librarian. May meet her one on one.

Emily heard from Beaverton library, they are interested in partnering.

Training Checklist

With the helpful feedback from Liisa at the Bend PL we decided the Checklist is ready to use.

ALA Midwinter (Caleb and Loree attended and shared their observations)

• Caleb discussed the idea of using the WA online tutorial for VR in conjunction with our own training.
• We discussed what others are doing for transcript evaluation.
• Caleb thinks we could host a periodic web videoconference for librarians to share ideas statewide or even regionally.
• At the QP Users Group meeting Caleb was given an award for his hard work in furthering Virtual Reference.
• Next major software upgrade will be in May or June and then next fall for patron interface

Summit June 2007

The survey about the Summit has not yet received many responses. The plenary speaker will be Marie Radford who will also give a workshop.


Core Competencies

Caleb will remind folks that the Core Competencies have been updated.

Shared Follow-up Schedule
Feb. 5 - Jackson County
Feb. 12 - Emily
Feb. 19 - Eugene Public
Feb. 26 - OIT
Next Meeting: Wednesday Feb. 21st 1:30-3:00pm