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.