DLC
LSTA Newspaper digitization grant in process

Systems
Working with DLC on an LSTA grant. Bill Covey is waiting to receive concrete numbers for file sizes. The project will begin in Greenstone Bill isn’t sure that is where it would remain.
The TS Bulletin Board is receiving some use. FCLA should use this type of mechanism for Aleph topics. There is a box that can be selected for auto login each time a registered user visits the sight. A user must be logged in to post. Committee members were asked to encourage staff to submit topics for discussion.

Preservation
Also working with DLC on an LSTA grant.
Open session for Binding contract pre-bid meeting with vendors was held a week ago. Samples have been sent and the completed samples will be evaluated the first week in April.
Holding conversion is still in progress. March has been designated as documentation month.
The re-class group still working on the re-class project.

Cataloging/Metadata
On March 31st Cataloging/Metadata Department catalogers will stop using CatME and begin using Connexion. A message to this effect was sent to the Aleph catalogers list.
Vendors and OCLC are reviewing PromptCat profiles that were submitted. There is a delay on one that the vendor has to work through. The bib notification service that complements PromptCat is ready to move forward. Once it is submitted the process goes quickly so we are waiting for PromptCat to be ready.
Students are being trained to do cleanup in advance of the periodicals reclass project. Lawan Orser thinks spreadsheets will be available in April for the monograph reclass work.
BNA Table of Content loaded through 1993. Working on the 1994 file and hope to complete by next week. The 1995 file has been sent to BNA.
Conducting searches for vacant positions and interviewing for LTA position.

Feedback on Strategic Plan/Balanced scorecard discussion at Jan. 25 TSSC
Martha Hruska reviewed the discussion held at the January 25th TSSC meeting and there seemed to be a lot of action comments. She feels this is an opportunity to have engaged discussions with staff. Much work that staff is doing is not reflected in the current goals. Suggestions for wording to include ongoing work in the 05-06 goals should be submitted to Martha.
Martha sent process improvement discussion notes to the SP&M Committee.
Order processing is a good topic for bulletin board.

Staff Recognition report
Convocation – timing preference leaned towards spring
Group prefers that the holiday party committee still have a library wide membership. Staff members that want to participate should volunteer.

Discussion proposal process
In order to foster cross-divisional communication discussion ideas that would interests staff across the libraries will be sought, not just from the TS Division.

Dale Canelas posted the feedback she received from Jodi Gentry about the Faculty Survey Meeting. The following areas were discussed:
The possible need for a change in the travel fund allocation process.
Faculty members desire better explanations about why decisions are made. They want to receive more notice about decisions that are being made and an opportunity to provide input prior to decisions being finalized.
Lack of directorial leadership
The need for Library Directors to be more visible within library departments

Topics for TS Highlights should be submitted to Martha Hruska on Fridays before 4:30p