Staff meeting notes 28 OCT 2021

Attendees - SB, MC, JO, RS

Notetaker - SB

This was an abbreviated meeting and just featured the Cool Sources for October.  Presentations included:

MC - The Mayflower Society Silver Books Project ("Mayflower Families Through Five Generations" - M468 MASS V. 1-25)

RS - Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Vols 1-4. (974 S264 USA V.1-V4)

JO - The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (3 Volume Set) 325.242 A549 USA and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635,          Call number 325.242 A549 USA v.1-v.7

SB - New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513-1800 (974 M131 USA)

For full descriptions of these and other featured collections, visit the Cool Sources folder:

Cool Sources - October 2021

 Staff meeting notes 21 OCT 2021 

 Attendees – SK, MH, IBW, RS, MC, & SB

Notetaker -- IBW

o    Attending Clayton Library Presents or other LIVE training? Ask if you want to view something. The most important thing is to ask.

o    Places to find things to watch

o        FamilySearch wiki 

o        TxSGS conference 

o        ConferenceKeeper.org 

·         Meeting notetaker assignments in GPO calendar

·         Fogle West digitization spreadsheet > TEAMS > CLA Staff TEAM > General > Digitization >  FamilySearchFWOut (last group of colored names is current group out) 

·         Lines highlighted in yellow have gone for digitization and have come back.  Blue lines are out for digitization now. White lines are files that have not gone out for digitization.

·         CMC - Melissa

·         Goes to end of the month. Auction ends next week. Swag items should come tomorrow.

·         TMS training 

·         Nine days left to get this done.

·         Cool Sources LIVE next week 

·         Staff meeting will be in person next week and your Cool Source is due.  You can show your book/item to the group at the meeting.  Please follow the format that is given in the Teams folder.  Looking at regional material try to find a state item that explores the concept you might want to talk about for the region. (Example: to highlight New England Town Records, you can pick a book of town records for a state like Massachusetts and add comments in your writeup about how many of the New England states keep records at town level.)

·         Outreach opportunities 

·         There will be many opportunities to go to Central for Outreach.  If you can think of something we can do down there for an outreach let Sue know.

·         New LDS Missionaries will be here around Nov. 1

·         Stephen – meeting tomorrow on the new research webpage format for the HPL webpage.

·         Melissa – Article on genealogy in Library Journal – Frank’s book is one of the ones recommended in the bibliography.

·         Programming – Friday will be Thomas Macentie, Next Wednesday Sue’s presentation is about funerals and customs surrounding them. Cari Taplin on the 29^th.

·         We could possibly make podcasts of the staff talks to publish also through HPL, since Zoom provides a file of the audio..

·         If you have an idea for anything different for programming, go ahead and give your suggestion.

Staff Meeting Notes 7 Oct 2021

• Please complete Cyber Security training by the end of the month. You should have received tons of emails about it by now. Log in to your TMS account and select the "Learning" category to see your required trainings. Once you've completed the training be sure to log it in the TEAMs document, located in General --> Professional Development --> select month.
• Tour of Central Library is Friday, October 8th at 8 am. Sign up on the sheet in the break room. We will return to Clayton by 10 am.
• New cell phone policy. Please read and sign sheet in break room.
• CMC has started and goes through October.
• FamilySearch has updated website; please check it out.
• COH staff Covid testing begins soon for unvaccinated employees. Please see emails or talk to supervisor.
• Staff check-ins
• Becky: consolidation and cataloguing
• Irene: updating programs and preparing October program on obituaries; training Becky in cataloguing
• Steven: email reference, webpage, volunteer planning, spreadsheet of past program recordings and handouts
• Joy: customers can register for October programs by using the QR code at the reference desk
• Rodney: bindery
• Mitch: looking at a two week turnaround for mounting program recordings on YouTube channel; HMRC video series
• Staff question: What's your favorite Halloween movie?

JO