Service Innovation Team (SIT) Meeting

 

September 1, 2016

 

Minutes

 

Attendees: Patrick Atkins, Felicia Brisco, Paty Bustamante, Helen Chou, Laurie Covington, Belinda Cox, Rebecca Denham, Sylvia Espinosa, Pedro Fonseca, Edgar Fuentes, Djuina Hammett, Saima Kadir, Roland Lemonius, Sara Pope, Dominick Spinelli, Hellena Stokes, and Mary Wagoner

 

Minutes by Patrick Atkins/Celeste Diaz

 

Virtual Library Services (Saima)

 

• Saima posted on the CE Blog and sent out on social media for the following items: 

          - Some databases are going to the wrong database - refresh - clean cache

         - VLS staff updating - send email if you see bad links

          - Staff - on Events Calendar - choose 3 Featured Events and a flyer will be printed

         - To add a new program, contact: Jennifer Schwartz (ADULT), Kallie Benes (YOUTH),

           Jessica Stanley (COMPUTER)

         - Robinson location page has been updated - social media sent out

         - Learning Link pages are updated

 

Notifying IT Reconsideration of Website (Pedro)

• How to block website: send form to LMS; Fred will decide then tell Digital Strategies to block

Techlink (Roland)

• LibCal - different meeting room reservation software
• "My Techlink" marketing: presentation is on the Intranet
• Roland may have a traveling road show to show off Techlink
• Services will include desktop publishing, makerspaces, and testing centers
• Scenic Woods will be the pilot location. Timetable is next spring; met with architect last week; will have 2 full time and 2 part time; one of the full time staff members will be the manager of the Techlink portion of the facility
• Testing Center guidelines are very exacting; plan is to have Techlink hours close to library hours; customers are required to take a familiarization course before being allowed to use equipment and software (required to print out Certificate of Completion from Niche Academy)
• Library cards will be required
• Software to create graphic novels will be available
• Osmo coding game
• Wacom tablet for painting

Thought Plan (Mary)

• Mary will do a roadshow to let everyone to let everyone know it exists
• Idea is for staff member to have an innovation/idea and present it to the SIT committee, then send it to ELT for approval
• Questions from the handout have been approved by Dr. Lawson; rubric still pending approval

New Technology at Young (Mary)

• 3D Printer (3)
• Multimedia space for photo editing
• Bamboo spark for imaging and drafting and drawing
• iPad Pro for Kids to learn coding
• VCR/DVD combo (save VHS as DVD)
• Osmos coding (coding, words, numbers, tanagram puzzles, and games)
• Microsoft Surface Table
• iPad Crayola Kiosk
• Waycom Tablets with Corel Painter 2016 (drawing and painting, sketching or painting from scratch or a photograph)
• Photo Scanner

Renovation Timelines (Mary)

• Handout was distributed
• Vinson will be open on Mondays from 11-6, effective 9/12/16

Augmented Reality Books (Pedro)

• Imagination
• With some books - point camera phone at book and book comes to life

iTeam Reservation Needing Computer Available (Edgar)

• Print out temporary logins in the morning and place at reservation station
• Do we want to have no computers needing to be available for customers to extend time as long as there is no queue?
• Takes one hour for new cards to be valid
• Do we want to switch entirely to guest passes? With guest passes there are no problems.
• Download to Excel file - print out and then cut?
• Can we limit how many goes on each receipt to conserve paper?

Open Discussion

• DVD limit - 15
• Telescope donated; currently at HMRC; group wants it to be checked out; is it adults or kids; where should it be housed; Paty will get the ball rolling with LMS; need to figure out replacement costs; want to create programs based around the telescope
• Judith - new database authentication product; staff needs to report if it is having issues; email has been sent out; database and catalog links need to change on catalog computers (will now have a tab after results to see articles on same subject); if webpage looks strange, please let Judith know.