April 22, 2014 MOBAC Reference Meeting, PG Library

Present:
Mary Elturk, PGPL (chair)
Ann Jacobson, NPS (recorder)
Frank Gravier, UCSC
Amy Chirman, MPC
Jean Chapin, HML
Be Astengo, MCFL
Kris Amaral, SPL
Jen Waterson, MIIS
Heather Geddes, WPL
Laura Dickie, Cabrillo

Proxies:
Ann Jacobson proxy for Sarah Dahlen (CSUMB)
Mary Elturk proxy for Inga (MPL)
Laura Dickie proxy for Deborah (Hartnell)

Approval of March minutes:
Approved minutes from March 25

Public comment:
No public comments

Reports:

Admin Council (Fri April 11)  Mary reporting
Had Literacy Campaign report (Mary will fill in if needed)
Strategic Planning -  working on draft
PLP Update: Jayanti will be next MOBAC rep for PLP.  Changeover in May.
Tech committee set with funding for their program

Tech Committee:
No formal report.  Program Friday May 2 at Cabrillo on privacy and intellectual freedom

ILL:
Jennifer reports there was a demo of “article exchange.”  Change from Worldcat to Worldshare extended to mid May.

SPLAMBA:
Be reports there will be a bullying prevention workshop this Friday April 25 at Cesar Chavez.

Old Business:
Remaining $$$.  Offering remaining $$$ to tech committee ($175.47) for May 3 workshop.  They have a big name speaker. We already gave them $100.  Some discussion of whether we can really do this.  Mary says yes, it was discussed at Admin Council.  ILL is giving all of their $$$ towards this.  We are listed as co-sponsors.  APPROVED.

Kris going to tech committee meeting, will let them know.

New Business:
Ref Committee workshops for PLP.  Terry from PLP is POC working with Mary.  PLP would like us to do, or provide guidance(template?) on how to do workshops.  Individual groups don’t do workshops on their own although PLP does.  We are a little unique in our committee structure and our multi-library nature.

Some discussion/clarification about exactly what PLP really wants.

Mary will let us know next time what she’s heard from them.

Updating services survey pages:
Mary passed out printouts from what is listed on MOB AC website for all of our services.  Asked everyone to correct. If you can’t correct bring printout to Mary at next meeting.  Or update yourself if you know how.

Mary gave those present the info on how to login and update the website.  Instructions under new members/other documents.

Site also lists by service as well as by library.  Frank volunteered to update that piece once all the libraries have updated their info.  Discussed adding ILL.

Some discussion of software categories:
Decided to stick with Word Processing and Spreadsheet

Discussed adding ILL as a category, along with cost.  Note if it’s just for students, faculty and staff.  Mary took down info on the libraries that were present re: whether we have ILL , for whom, and what it costs

Purpose of this page is so staff from MOBAC libraries can see what other libraries have available to the public.  Mainly for staff, not for end users.

Reference Shares:
Kris asks, what do people consider a “reference question” in their libraries. Amy points out it probably depends on library type. Do you include tech questions?  Copier use questions? Everything except where is the bathroom?

Tally daily, weekly, sampling or ????

State reference standards seem outdated, the way they don’t include tech questions as ref questions.  We all spend a lot of time dealing with tech questions.  How to pass that info along? Mary will pass along to Admin Council.

What is a reference question could be a great roundtable workshop sort of thing with an outcome to make a recommendation to the state.  Good idea for next FY!

October will be our next big workshop (Future of Reference). Good idea for that. “Metrics”

Output vs. outcome measures.

Discussion of statistics collection etc.

Ann will share URL for webinar she attended today on this topic, sponsored by OCLC. (URL not received as of the writing of these notes)

Other ref shares:
Monterey County has come up with core competencies for reference.  Needed to do this so that basic core skills for all at single service point.  Be will bring next time.

Next meeting is at CSUMB Library, May 27.

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