MOBAC Reference Committee Meeting Minutes
June 24, 2014, 2 pm
MIIS Library
Attendees:
Jennifer Cockerill, SCPL
Julie Richardson, SCPL
Sarah Dahlen, CSUMB
Kris Amaral, Salinas PL
Jen Waterson, MIIS
Mary Elturk, PGPL
Call to Order
Recorder: Sarah Dahlen
Approval of Agenda
Minutes approved: motion by Kris, second by Sarah
Public Comments: none
Reports
Admin Council
- New MOBAC rep to PLP: Jayanti Addleman, MCFL
- Librarian from San Bruno is new chair (of PLP?)
- CALIFA: going strong
- Strategic planning committee
- Strategic planning in progress
- Literacy campaign in Monterey County looking to MOBAC as sponsor
- Would need to extend to Santa Cruz and San Benito counties
- Monterey Bay Aquarium no longer has library; no longer part of MOBAC
- MOBAC member recruitment: MBARI in Moss Landing
- Passed OCLC subscription contract for 2014-15
- Eleanor Uhlinger from NPS will be incoming chair of admin council; Steven Silveria from PG is vice chair
- Reconfirmed MOBAC Committees
- Added literacy committee: Cathy Andrews at MCFL is heading
- Website needs to be updated: Georg will take this on
- Jayanti will talk to PLP about MOBAC workshops
Tech Committee
ILL Committee
SPLAMBA
Old Business
- Reference Committee workshops for PLP:
- Mary is in contact with Terry Jackson about workshops
- Sent Hidden Treasures and Social Media Social
- Admin council is encouraging us to take advantage of this opportunity
- Don't need to redo ones that are video recorded
- From now on, schedule workshops for second time through PLP
- Single advertisement for both times (Monterey Co. and Bay Area)
- Presenters would have to commit to two iterations; might work better for outside paid presenters
- Possible topics: Dealing with difficult patrons, redefining reference
- Update services survey pages
- Mary passed out additional pages to library reps for updating; still has pages for Monterey PL and San Benito
- Georg may be able to link responses so they don't have to be changed on two separate pages
- Output measures/Outcome measures/Tech questions in state statistics
- PG includes Computer assistance with Informational/Directional questions
- SCPL uses Counting Opinions
- Harrison Memorial tracks "tech help"
- Jen shared stat collection from CSU Stanislaus and that MIIS reports under Vermont standards
- Sarah noted old CSU tiered system: Level 1: directional, Level 2: tech, Level 3: quick ref, Level 4: in depth reference
- Conversation tabled until next meeting when there are more members present
- Core competencies for reference staff
- Tabled for later meeting; Be was going to bring info
- Possible topic for upcoming workshop
New Business
- Purview of MOBAC webpage maintenance
- Georg will talk about this in August
Reference shares
- Jen from MIIS: Middlebury and other partner are developing online language instruction program with contextualized learning/teaching. Uses clues from context of experience to acquire info; video tutorials and virtual worlds; body language and surroundings; look for cognates; interaction with others; using language for a purpose.
- Mary from PG: Summer reading programs are in the middle of the library; hard to do over-the-phone reference with background noise
News from libraries
Future agenda items
Next meeting: August 26, 2014 in Watsonville
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