Minutes of a meeting held on 15 November 2001
Present: Nick Bevan, Sue Clegg (Secretary), Mike Day, Gail Downe,
Peter Guildford, Julia Munro, Anne Murray, Pat Noon (Chair), Margaret Oldroyd,
Julie Parry
Apologies: Toby Bainton
01/41 Welcome
Mike Day was welcomed as a new member of the committee.01/42 Minutes of the previous meeting
These were accepted as a true record subject to the correction of the spelling of Nick Bevan's name.
01/43 Matters arising from the minutes.
| 00/14 | Deputies mailing list. SC had circulated lis-sconul to get
members and had had 57 replies to date. SCONUL wish to make use of this
to do a survey of deputies salaries. Other uses to be discussed at next
meeting. Action JM: To go on February agenda. |
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| 01/20 | Structure charts. SC had circulated lis-sconul to get these
and approx. 25 had already been received. Some selection will be necessary
prior to publication because of the length of some. Action: SC to make recommendations to future AcoS meeting. |
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| 01/20 | SC is writing hints and tips article for SCONUL newsletter in December. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/23 | Organising events working paper. SC had provided GD with
an electronic copy and will provide a summary for the web site. The SCONUL
summary should be reprinted every so often in SCONUL news reminding members
what SCONUL can do to help. Action: SCONUL secretariat. |
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| 01/23 | SC provided copies of the Careers Information QAA paper, but did not feel it was particularly helpful to us to pursue. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/32 | Staff development policies paper: AM and MO have gathered
a significant amount of information and recommended a need to establish
criteria and to select policies for publication which matched all, or most
criteria. Others will be mentioned in an appendix. Selection will promote
good practice and any institution asked to cut their policy or to extract
from it will be consulted in advance. As part of the policy the publication
will include an email contact address for each institution. Target date
for publication will be spring 2002(ish). It was agreed that the next meeting
should look at evaluating success of working papers. Action: JM Feb agenda. |
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| 01/34 | AHRB awards: No reply as yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/35 | Publicity for management courses: Action: JM for next agenda |
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| 01/37 | Project management course with UCISA: UCISA want to run
a course on project management. Action: JM to provide PG with contact at Newcastle; SC Use new deputies list to identify what people want to know re PM, and identify the type of projects. |
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| 01/38 | Committee membership:
Notes:chair must be a full SCONUL representative, not a deputy. Current membership terms:
Action: GD to send list of interested members to JM: all committee to send suggestions for good people to JM as soon as possible. |
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01/44 Managing for strategic change
The event was reviewed with the following outcomes:
Future events should screen participants; modules might be split between financial years; directors should be in different cohort to deputies; should continue but may wish to go to alternate suppliers for new course as well as Aston; need to find out from institutions what management training they are providing in house and where the gap is which this event can fulfil; look at HIMSS recommendations.
Action: PN to talk with Aston. JM next agenda.
01/45 Annual report and business plan
Draft reports amended and agreed.
Action: PN to amend and send to SCONUL office.
01/46 SCONUL away day report
Pat Noon reported on the Banbury residential event which had been led by a facilitator. Various aspects of this will be discussed at next meeting including, report to the Executive Board (EB), more regional activities, facilitating others, doing more with UCISA. Each committee is also asked to do abridged reports/minutes on the web page and to develop their web pages further, as well as considering a 'what's new' in the world of staffing or exemplars of good practice from members.
Action: JM for next agenda.
01/47 UCISA/SDG report
Considering developing a networking course for non networking people. Supporting ILT and producing a guide. Running a test for ECDL and will be organising a 2 day conference on ECDL in academia. Will be running a best practice award.
01/48 SCONUL award
2000 Award was made to Lindsey Martin, Edge Hill College for planning and setting up the electronic office.
Some changes could be made for future years, including:
- Need to know how the project is applicable to the sector;
- CVs need to be shorter
- Endorsement by Chief Librarian/Director
- Topics on web site whether successful or not, to encourage others.
- Making awards with caveats/tweaking 'you might like to..'.
Action: PN to consider for next meeting.
01/49 ARL online Lyceum
Committee to keep a watching brief on this.
01/50 AcoS Web Pages
The committee agreed that papers could go onto the web for downloading.
Useful links now up except ISNTO which is not yet available.
GD is setting up a web weaver meeting in the Spring.
Jackie was thanked for all her work to date.
01/51 Staffing issues
The committee had been asked by ACIP to discuss performance indicators for staffing and how these might be developed.
Action: JM for next agenda; PN to contact Stephen Town before the next meeting.
Pat Noon updated the committee on the latest work done by the HIMSS project.
01/52 Events
- TT7 Julie Parry is organising this with a possible date of June at DMU.
- HE College Deputies. It was agreed that they will be included in the new SCONUL deputies list and therefore automatically included in whatever events are organised for senior staff.
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30 May 2002