MOBAC Reference Committee Meeting Agenda

Oct 25th, 2016 2:00 P.M.  MCFL, Marina Library 

 

Call to Order: Heather

2:05 PM

 

Present:  

 

Ann Jacobson, NPS; Deborah Stephens, Hartnell; Heather Geddes, Watsonville; Ellie Anderson, Monterey Public; Sharon Coronado, MCFL

Sarah Dahlen; CSUMB (via Zoom)

 

Recorder: Ann Jacobson

 

Proxies:  Ellie Anderson for Betty Mason (San Benito); Heather Geddes for Jean Chapin (Harrison)

 

Approval of Last Meeting's Minutes:  September 27, 2016

Approved with the following changes which were made subsequent to the meeting:

 

Deborah was the Active Presenter presenter 

CENIC not Scenic

Enki not Inky

Ann will make changes then Heather will link on MOBAC site 

 

Public Comments:  

None

 

Old Business:  

 

Chair for 2017/18

(Deborah thinks she will not be on the committee much longer due to new librarian coming)

 

Discussion about the fact that we have a lot of new people, and light meeting attendance

 

Heather will send out a reminder email to all committee members encouraging participation, providing a list of libraries that have chaired over the past five years, outlining chair tasks and time commitment, so that we can identify a chair for next year.

 

Some discussion about how our committee has changed. We focus more on workshops and less on other tasks. Later in the meeting we will be discussing how we can add interest and value to our meetings

 

Spring Workshop

Since we aren't meeting again until January, good to generate ideas now

Possible ideas are:

 

TOP CHOICE:

Mental health first aid.  Watsonville and Santa Cruz will soon have certified trainers. 8 hour training.  Attendees would be certified. The training is about identifying and engaging with people experiencing mental health issues. How to handle them safely and how to help them in the moment. Some discussion of whether this would be of interest to academic libraries? It's obviously of high interest to public libraries.

 

Or maybe a mini version 3 hour session?

 

BACKUP:
Local history/special collections/genealogy.
Could be done as a "product" instead of (or as a supplement to) a workshop.  

We could develop as a committee a list/handout/web page of specialized resources that each library has.

 

MPL has a couple of good potential speakers.

 

Ann could ask at next MOBAC Admin Council whether they would be willing to send staff to an all day Mental Heatlh training.  Or we can see if the trainer can cull down to a 3 hour workshop. Heather is going to further investigate.

 

Ann mentioned Jennifer's walking tour of Cannery Row as a possible MOBAC reference committee special meeting or limited attendance workshop. We decided it would be better as an outside field trip.

 

Ebooks

 

Marketing resources (guides, resources, databases)

 

In the next couple of months we will make a decision about which of these to proceed with and who will be responsible. We can communicate via email.

 

Committee Initiatives and Structure

 

Monthly "did you know" email? How would we make it happen? Who would we send it to?

We might take on a specialized handout as a committee "product" for the year. 

But we need more committee participation if we are going to do anything new.  Heather will send the email previously mentioned.

Admin Council should know about the decrease in our attendance (and what we are trying to do to address it).

 

What would make coming to the committee meetings more worthwhile?

 

Some conversation about what brings us together as "reference" whether public or academic?

 

Do we want to have pre-arranged meeting topics?

Do we want to have breakouts for academic and public? (Some topics of interest to just one type of library).

 

Maybe have a couple of meetings specially focused on other topics when we aren't busy with planning workshops.

 

Ann can set up a Wiki page for meeting topic ideas. Maybe some ideas on the workshop feedback form would lend themselves to meeting topics. 

 

One idea for a meeting topic: marketing our resources.

 

Meeting Locations

 

Especially need January location.  Watsonville will host for January, Ann will chair.

With the low committee participation we are challenged to spread around the meeting host locations.

 

New business:

 

Review of fall workshop

We reviewed the feedback we received. It's available on the Wiki.  Important takeaways: We should remember to have speakers provide handouts, and work through having smoother panel logistics (transitions between speaker presentations)

 

Reports:

 

Administrative Council.

There was none. Ann will go in December

 

Tech Committee 

Deborah: they are meeting tomorrow. 

 

ILL Committee

Nobody present attended. 

 

SPLAMBA

Nobody present attended.

 

 

Reference Shares: 

 

MCFL:

Sharon shared introduction to Foundation Directory Online workshop coming up. Friday October 28. Contact Seaside Library for details.

Very successful MCFL Fundraiser was recently at Embassy Suites. 

Castroville recently celebrated 10th anniversary

LA I position opening coming to MCFL

 

Watsonville:

Heather shared two print reference resources:

Latin American Story Finder (useful reference book to find stories on topics/from different countries)

Classical Mexican Cinema (useful reference re: Mexican Cinema)

Lots of voting questions. What sites are people recommending?  LWV and Voter's Edge.  Secretary of State's site.  SF League of Pissed Off Voters (biased but interesting).

 

CSUMB:

Sarah shared scholar.google.es Spanish language Google Scholar. (Google Academico). Academic articles in Spanish.

 

 

Next meeting: January 24, 2017 location Watsonville, Chair: Ann Jacobson

 

Meeting adjourned