- The Quality Task Team meeting held on 7 Nov
- The Campus visit from Mrs Sander (9 Nov)
- The IUGSA conference
- Upcoming events
Quality Task Team meeting
The meeting was chaired by Dr van Vuren. The members received a feedback report from Beauty regarding the quality of cataloguing. The new quality control measures for cataloguing was discussed and members gave some additional input. Beauty reported that the problem areas in the catalogue seems to be with the older records, rather than with recent records. After the Dewey project, Carina and Miemie submitted a report with suggestions for regular clean-up. These suggestions have been implemented.
The meeting agreed that the male and female restrooms on minus one (opposite the bindery) can be allocated for staff. More information on this will follow soon.
The next peer review audit of the UJLIC will be done in 2013. From the meeting it was made clear that we have to change our focus to not only to include what we do, but the impact that our actions have on our clients with regards to their information needs. Our reporting must therefore change in order to accommodate the outcome of our tasks as well.
Campus visit from Mrs Sander
This meeting took place on 9 November and started off by Mrs Sander sharing more information regarding the implementation of the new structure. She informed the staff that Dr Bawa will now start on 3 January 2012 and not 16 Jan as previously reported. Mrs Sander kindly requested staff to fully support Dr Bawa in her new position as Executive Director of the library. She also mentioned that by now all staff should have received placement letters. If you did not receive a placement letter you can contact Mrs Sander and cc Hettie Wentzel.
The structure is also now available on the library intranet (log into the UJ Intranet, from there click on Forms and Documents, then click on Library Intranet, you will find it in the folder named UJLIC Organisational structure).
The Director for e-Services has not been appointed yet. In the meantime, Archives and Sharon Swart will report to Dr van Vuren and Pieter Hattingh and his team to Hannie.
Mrs Sander reminded staff that as from next year, all leave applications must be submitted electronically. Should you have any problems logging onto Oracle to submit your leave, please contact Vivian (ext. 4323).
The printing and photocopying services will be taken over by Konica Minolta as from next year. During the first phase, Minolta will focus on getting printing ready for the students. They will move in after 15 Dec this year and should be ready for the students on 3 Jan next year. Phase two will focus on printing for staff. Central printing might be effected for a while and staff are requested to communicate priorities to Hettie Wentzel.
Mrs. Sander ended off her visit by thanking staff for their hard work and dedication.
The IUGSA conference
From 14 to 16 November I attended the IUGSA conference at Potchefstroom (North West University). This conference is organised annually for all libraries making use of Innovative Interfaces Inc (III) or as we call it, Millennium. Have a look at their website: http://www.iugsa.co.za/
On the first day, Graham and Maryvonne of III gave us an overview of what is happening with the company and introduced us to new products. The most important announcement was that they are busy developing a new platform called Sierra. The reason for this is that the current Millennium platform is getting outdated and it is getting increasingly difficult to develop enhancements on the Millennium platform. The new Sierra platform will have an iGoogle look and feel and will be more customizable and seamlessly integrated with social media. For more information go and have a look at the website: http://sierra.iii.com/#/home
At the conference it was also mentioned that the Millennium and Sierra platforms will be maintained, but the Telnet (or QVT-platform) will disappear in the next few years.
We listened to very interesting papers, including two papers delivered by UJLIC staff. Mdu and Roedina from APB delivered a paper on ICL at UJ Libraries and my paper were on the Dewey project (what else?). My presentation is available on slideshare at: http://www.slideshare.net/janinavdw/a-road-less-travelled-changing-from-one-classification-system-to-another
Some photos taken at the conference:
Graham & Maryvonne of Innovative Interfaces Inc.
Roedina and Mdu
Upcoming events
Before I start with this topic, I want to congratulate April and his team with the wonderful and most enjoyable staff function last Friday (18 Nov). April we had a ball.........!!!!!!! (more info in a separate post).
On Thursday (24 Nov) a workshop on Social Networking in Libraries will be held. The workshop will focus on using Facebook, Twitter and blogs in our profession. Invitations have already been send to some staff members, should you also want to attend you are welcome to contact me (limited space is available due to the number of seats in the training center).
Do not forget our staff braai on Friday (25 Nov - or rather payday). Looking forward to see you there!!!!!
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