Notes

September 6, 2011: Library Staff Meeting (http://notes.io/q6T)
01. Moodle FAQs + Answers
- Enrollment key issue; Paul needs to add the hack back into the new version of Moodle
- week before classes began, CTS updated Moodle and moved it to a new server
- new server, production 1.9.13, Moodle 2.1 instance up and running, switching everyone over next summer to 2.1; big changes with the way that Files are handled; better support for repositories; better integration with Mahara 1.4
- issue with faculty not wanting to place their physical course reserves through Moodle
- ability to renew a reserve request is still something that needs to be developed, finished; tweaking on the backend
- Students don't know that the Reserves block is in their course; librarians start in Moodle
- if the instructor isn't using Moodle for anything else, some students don't know that the reserves are listed there
- it's up to the faculty member if they are going to open up their Moodle courses or not
- enrollment key issues; registrar/CTS
- stats on the bookscanner; there may be a chance of getting another bookscanner out of a different budget
02. Senior Projects for Fall 2011, Senior Project Submission category, communication to go out to faculty and students describing that process; all of the library documentation has been rewritten (LibGuides, LibAnswers)
- Don't have to chase down faculty, hand in the real version, this gets the Library out of the receipt process altogether
- Eventually there will be a Senior Project area in Moodle where people can search for projects
- long-term archival question: do we want all of these things to be permanently archived within the Moodle server or do we want a darker archive for preservation purposes
- access for alums who no longer have functioning Purchase email accounts; could be a reference desk function, professor, etc.
- providing temporary account access so that user can access the project in the future - involves Paul, low priority
- all SP will only be in the ALEPH catalogue; will not be searchable in the IDS catalogue
03. Training for students; shelf-reading, no students to shelve Ns unless they talk to Kim. There is no oversight of the shelf-reading process, students are not physically trained, we assume that they know how to reshelve.
- How can we help students care about the Library? How can we build and foster relationships between student workers, staff, and the Library as a whole?
- Student supervisors could work in areas that are more overloaded
- try to find areas that are aligned with the students' interested, they would have more invested in working on the collection
- shelving vs. shelf-reading - two different but related things
- librarians should think about areas of the collection that need to be addressed