We spent the day together at Presentation Center and had a wonderful time considering the mission and the goals (Vision 2010) of the University and how each of our individual units are working together to create a university that supports students and faculty as they are learning and doing research and teaching.
We revisited the Library's strategic goals and talked about our unit goals.
Three themes emerged for library-wide professional development that would help each of us accomplish the various initiatives in our departments:
(1) enhance understanding and skills in using technology,
(2) further define what we want our standards to be for customer service (which includes our service to each other as well as to library users) and enhance understanding and skills in evaluating and continuously improving our service delivery,
(3) improve our organizational effectiveness through leadership development and by recreating our identity as members of the campus community with an academic mission.
Our plan for library-wide opportunities for 2008-09 will include:
(1) Technology Tuesdays - once a month we'll invite library staff to present a workshop on new technologies they are using and how we might use technology to enhance our services, teaching and communication with each other and with our users.
(2) A series of workshops offered by Rona Halualani and Dr. Nicko on the diversity represented on campus, and how to improve our services, teaching and communication with one another given different learning styles and backgrounds.
(3) An SJSU Summer Olympics event
(4) A speaker on trends in academic libraries
(5) Offering Brown Bag lunches for staff and faculty presentation
(6) A speaker (perhaps Shelly Phipps) to enhance our organizatonal effectiveness, specifically in the area of leadership
Members of the Council will visit each of the unit staff meetings in June & July to further discuss the themes for the year and get ideas and responses from everyone.
