Professional Development Advisory Committee

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Welcome to the Professional Dev. Advisory Committee Blog!

Hi everyone--
Here is the new blog for the Professional Development Advisory Committee. Please use this space to communicate with one another, to post your committee minutes and to otherwise share information.
Thanks for your work on behalf of ARC.
Dawn

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  • Minutes of the ARC Professional Development Advisory Committee Meeting

    Wednesday, October 5, 2005
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    Attendees: Lynne Riley, WPI; Debbie Bockus, WPI; Debbie Carney, Becker;
    Peg Lesinski, AAS


    Program Topic Survey
    Margaret Cardello emailed the results of our committee’s topic survey that we had sent out in August. From a choice of 6 possible topics that were proposed for our Spring ’06 program, Emerging Technologies ranked highest in interest level by 35% of survey participants, with an additional 33% ranking this topic second highest in interest. “Spring” and “Tuesday morning” are the preferred program times. Complete survey results are available at the following link:
    http://www.zoomerang.com/reports/public_report.zgi?ID=L22E4AUYAJ89

    Library Services for ARC Staff
    The program idea that was forwarded to our committee last June by Dawn Thistle was discussed for much of this meeting. The idea, which originated with Assumption librarian Larry Spongberg, was to co-sponsor a program with the Colleges of the Worcester Consortium (COWC) that would highlight the ARC services that are available to all ARC institution staff members rather than just library staff. While we feel that this would be a very worthwhile program as well as an excellent promotional tool, it was decided that this type of program was not a good fit for what our committee has officially been charged to do. The committee has declined to officially co-sponsor the event; however various committee members came up with a list of some of the services that their libraries and institutions offer. Some committee members would also be happy to support the event by offering to participate or help the planning in some way. Lynne will provide input to the COWC committee that is planning this program at their meeting on 10/20 at Holy Cross. Some of the services we came up with were:

    Becker - veterinary clinic at the Leicester campus and associated library
    collection
    WPI - archives photographic/art exhibits; topical exhibits in library lobby
    AAS - weekly tours, brown bag lunches featuring noted authors/scholars,
    Pulitzer prize winners

    Services in general: collection strengths, subject databases, reference help,
    Archives and Special Collections. Worcester art Museum passes, WPL passes to zoos, museums, and other places of interest to children

    Program could feature the ARC card; who, what, when, where, why, how…
    Cross-borrowing information, variations in policies for specific institutions, how to find events listing (Social Web), directions, hours, and parking information, etc.

    The next meeting will be held at WPI on Thursday, November 3rd at 2:00 p.m.

    By Blogger Lynne, at 11:45 AM  

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