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AU Libraries’ All-Staff Meeting May 11, 2022
Zoom Mtg ID: 924 0490 9064 10:00AM – 11:00AM
Rediscovering Joy: Summer of Play Summer 2022 Projects
• Administrative Team - eProcurement training
• Public Services – Display Case Theme Projects/Libchat & Libcal refinement/finalize social media policy
• Collection Management – Reparative cataloging
• Archives – New workspace configuration in Scholes
• Information Literacy – Zine Collection & Develop Class Syllabus Summer Plan & Coverage
Summer hours 8:30AM – 4:30PM will commence Monday, May 16th. Special hours of operation will be announced to accommodate special summer programs below –
• H/EOP will be on campus July & August
• AUNY (our downstate students) have scheduled classes during the summer
• Summer Arts
• Summer Sports
• Campus Tours during Reunion Weekend
We have hired a few student workers to assist us this summer. All Summer hires are Non-College Work Study.
• Herrick – Amber Weiner, Madison LeClaire, Jeremiah Orshal
• Scholes – Anna Grossman, Josiah Alexander, Molly Sidenstricker (for a few weeks) and (possibly) Luke Sullivan.
Please notify Mechele with any projects that the students may assist with, especially if the project can be done at the reference desk.
With student wages increasing and the budget remaining flat, fall semester student hires will be College Work Study eligible only. The libraries will not be able to hire students unless they are eligible for the Federal College Work Study Program and have been awarded the FCWS through the Financial Aid Office.
You will be seeing Mechele and Haleigh walking through Herrick and Scholes. They are making a list of “to-do”
projects. Among the projects is identifying interior signage updates in Scholes.
The Disaster Response Kits have been replenished, but the Disaster Response Plan needs to be revisited and updated.
The Senior Art show exhibits are still on display. You are welcome to give Mechele and/or John your suggestions for purchasing items for display in Herrick or Scholes Library.
Microsoft Teams
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All of you should have received an invite to Microsoft Teams. This will be the “go to” location for documents that are to be shared with other teams. Brett has been working on a secure, sustainable way for the library teams to access and share relevant documents with each other. A User Guide is being developed and refined.
Brett shared an overview of the process to upload documents into the Microsoft Teams application. Each team will be deciding what documents would be relevant to add to this document collection.
Updates
The AU Libraries’ Bake-off that was held on May 6th was a success with a new champion announced. Brian Sullivan was presented with a trophy for his winning entry of Peanut Butter White Chocolate Chip Cookies.
The Board of Trustees will be on-campus Thursday, May 12th and Friday, May 13th. Student experience discussions will be taking place. Graduation will be Saturday, May 14th.
The AU Softball team will be traveling to New Jersey to participate in the NCAA tournament.
Interviews for the VP for Student Experience and the Dean of Graduate & Continuing Studies have been completed. An announcement of the hires for these positions is forthcoming.
The latest edition of the AU Fact Book was published: https://www.alfred.edu/about/institutional- research/fact-books.cfm
Closing Remarks
• Year 2018 was the summer of reorganization.
• Year 2019 was the summer of ALMA migration.
• Year 2020 was the summer of COVID pandemic.
• Year 2021 was the summer of rest and rejuvenation.
• The charge for the summer of 2022 is to rediscover joy in the Summer of Play.
o What brings you joy?
o What do you do at the AU libraries that brings you joy?
Take a few moments this summer to think about the people, activities or things that bring you joy. Take the time to not only think about this, but act on it.
Participants – Kevin Adams, Brett Arno, Sherman Clarke, Amanda Criss, Nic Crosby, Laura Habecker, John Hosford, Laurie Meehan, Maria Planansky, Deb Rollins, Mechele Romanchock, Mark Smith, Becky Stewart, Brian Sullivan, Haleigh Youll
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