Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Project Boards, Change Advisory Boards, Shortlisting

Monday 27th April

The start of the Library Management System project looking at the overview of the project and roles within the project. First meeting of the Project Board and discussion regarding SCURL groups and operational groups.

Discussions regarding Institute of Petroleum Engineering books that were transferred into the main library last summer but need stock checking as some discrepancies between what is shown on catalogue and what is on the shelves / out on loan.

Tuesday 28th April

Telephone discussion with Service Desk software supplier

Service Improvement Group meeting.
Items on the agenda were mainly around statistics and data collection and what should be included in a monthly dashboard for management.
Also discussion around communication and how to continue to improve

Wednesday 29th April

Meeting about IT Helpdesk system and access to the system for new groups of staff users including those from international campuses.

Change Advisory Board - changes planned for this coming week and any new developments.  Only the second meeting of the CAB but interesting and useful so far especially from a communicating to users perspective

Shortlisting for post of VLE Enhancement Manager - some good applications so very hopeful

Thursday 30th April

Team meeting for daytime staff - updates on the quick survey about purpose of library visits,  monitoring the library space, extra study spaces, weeding of stock, short loans, cleaning, training etc.

Presentation by our Research Librarian regarding at Pure, open access and open data, and how we deliver / will deliver services relating to these areas.  Looked firstly at the current services and the range of policies and activities surrounding them and secondly at how we can best deliver services, and how we work with other university services on these areas of scholarly communication.

Spent the rest of the day at the IT Helpdesk as a catch up on what's been happening and current issues.

Friday 1st may

Mainly catching up with emails and other day to day tasks.
Meeting with Liaison Services Manager
Sorting out new staff issues and checking that inductions are underway

Collated feedback from the Facebook survey that we did earlier this semester


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