Rebranding for the committee-
After numerous suggestions from Fondren Staff, the committee has decided that the name should be changed. After considering seven suggestions, the new name is:
Library Travel, Training and Development Committee (LTTD)
FYI-our scope of responsibilities has not changed: the committee manages staff travel, training, and development, while administrative travel is still managed by Sara Lowman.
The Committee has arranged the following events for the staff this fall:
On Wednesday November 4th, Scott Carlson and Norie Guthrie will present on the Indie Preserves web site in the Collaboration Space at 1:00 pm. Scott and Norie care passionately about preservation and music, especially indie music. Come hear about their adventures in providing preservation tools to the indie community, and how it’s led them to SXSW 2016.
On Tuesday November 10th at 10:00 and at 11:00 there will be staff tours of the Chevron Visualization Lab. Staff members need to sign up with Lauren Mueller for the time that works for them:
10am to 11am Tour Form
11am to 12pm Tour Form
On Friday November 20th, Alan Steinberg’s students in the Houston Action Research Team (HART) will present on the ongoing Houston Public Library Pattern Assessment project at 2:00 pm in the Collaboration Space. The summer project focused upon library choice, i.e. who is going to what library and attempting to understanding why. They used data about where the users live and explored which libraries they used around the city.
We also want to thank Amanda Focke, Monica Rivero, Rebecca Russell, and Linda Spiro, who presented at the Fall Keeping Current event on Wednesday October 11th. The topics were:
AF: Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums and Rice University’s Woodson Research Center
MR: Updated Metadata guidelines from the TDL ETD Metadata workgroup
RR: Presentation on How to implement a digital preservation program
LS: Dr. Megan Kate Nelson’s talk “A Battle Logs: Visualizing the Destruction of Forests in the American Civil War talk.”