Communications Committee Meeting

April 18, 2006

Attending: Celia Walker, Suellen Stringer-Hye, Ava Wilson, Henry Shipman, Angel (Bruner) Craddock.

Agenda:

1. Web Ticker: The news ticker has 5 news items and two more need to be added. The Book Sale and the French exhibition will be dropped on the 21st. The 18th century collections online will be added again, along with the Divinity renovation news. We may try to find a script for the ticker that will allow each item to come up randomly, rather than starting at the same point each time the page is refreshed.

2. Communications Vehicles Summary Update: Celia prepared an Excel handout showing the summary of our Communications Vehicles interviews so far. Committee members are asked to read the summary and bring comments to the next meeting.

3. Project Priorities--updating our plan: A few priorities were updated. We will start work on a short “elevator talk” description of the Strategic Plan changes for staff to use. The project team for the faculty newsfeed will be selected soon after our next meeting. Committee members are asked to look at the skills list and recommend specific skills needed for this team. A blog linked to the library page is being considered for customer service announcements, new databases, etc.

Our priorities will continue to be studied at the next meeting.

4. Committee Evaluation Form: A form to evaluate committee membership at employee evaluation time was approved by the LMC and Strategy and Planning Council. It lists seven qualities (Quality of Work, Productivity, Punctuality, Dependability, Initiative, Working Relationships, and Attendance) and has check boxes for “Effective” or “Needs Improvement”.

-Submitted by Angel, April 21, 2006-