1) Careers@Rice rollout
Salary letters and Careers@Rice packets will be distributed on June 4, with follow up meetings scheduled for June 4-16. HR made all of the changes to career profiles that had been requested by library managers. New changes will need to be made after July 1.
2) Power outage procedures.
The power outage procedures policy, originally written in 2013, was revised. The revised document can be found on the Fondren wiki (login required). Revisions include:
- Clearing the book drops is now mandatory
- Staff should gather in the south reading room so that the area near the Circ desk is kept clear.
- A chain of communication is specified: Sara Lowman, then Kerry Keck, then Sue Garrison.
- If the power is out during business hours, during the academic year with classes in session, and if power is available at the Pavilion or Rayzor Hall, essential personnel will remain an additional hour at one of these locations to see if power returns and the library can reopen.
3) Symphony migration: Fondren IT is migrating the Sirsi Symphony servers on June 24, which is a Sunday (when the library is closed). Symphony will be offline that day.
4) Visiting/online/collaborative patrons. Denis Galvin noted that IT receives around 10 tickets from visiting scholars and online students per semester regarding the inability to access library resources from off-campus. There is a libguide for online students at http://libguides.rice.edu/onlinestudents. Online MBA students should be treated like all other students, as they go through regular admissions processes and pay full tuition. Visiting scholars typically cannot be granted off-campus access to library databases because of licensing restrictions.