Volume 3, Issue 5

Please join us for a Reporting Out & Grants Brown Bag lunch on Thursday, April 15th from 12:00 to 1:00p.m. in the Friends Conference Room.

Reporting Out: several people from the library attended the 2010 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World. It was held March 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency at the Colorado Convention Center. This year’s theme was “Imagining the Digital Future.” Conference programs addressed the successes and innovations of the past as well as the opportunities and challenges that can help drive museum and library sciences into the future. WebWise is an initiative of the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). IMLS is the primary source of federal grants and support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.


More information is on the wiki: http://intranet.auraria.edu/wiki/index.php/IMLS_Initiatives:_WebWise
Grants: During this brown bag we may also want to discuss whether we will submit another LSTA grant next year, and if so, who will write it. All grant proposals must address the following: Colorado libraries will provide services to support educational achievement and lifelong learning of Colorado residents, people with disabilities, ethnic populations, institutional residents, and those underserved by libraries. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/lsta/index.htm






Auraria Library Annual Award Winners

Congratulations to this year's deserving 2009 faculty award winners!


Excellence in Librarianship - Ignacio Ferrer-Vinent

Researcher/Creative Artist of the Year - Denise Pan

Service Person of the Year - Karen Sobel


Open Enrollment Begins April 26th
For more information including the enrollment calendar, how the Health Care Reform Law will affect you and to locate scheduled forums, follow this link: https://www.cusys.edu/pbs/openenrollment/


Ebooks & Audiobooks presentation in the Library. Please consider attending the digital books presentation on Friday April 16th, 2010, 11:30 - 1:00 in the Library’s Jackson Enhanced Learning Center. The presentation will cover accessing scholarly and popular ebooks through Auraria Library, other libraries, free sites, and subscription services. There will also be some digital book aficionados there to talk about their experiences and audience input will be welcome. Thanks for registering here: http://guides.auraria.edu/registration. Though this is part of the Connections faculty series, all Library employees are welcome to attend. (And if you own a cool ebook reader you’d like to show off – let Ellen M. know. We’ve got a Kindle….)

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You are invited:

What: Family, Community, and Empowerment Speaker Series
Dates: Thursday April 8th and Thursday April 22nd
Time: 1:00-3:00 (1:00 Presentation; 2:00 Reception)
Where: Auraria Library Jackson Enhanced Learning Center (ELC-B)

From Pueblo Projects to Media Mogul -- Thursday April 8th
Jeff Valdez made history when he launched Si TV, America’s first English Language Latino themed cable network, in 2003. Si TV currently broadcasts to over 20 million households and boasts a lineup of award winning original programming. Valdez oversaw all operations for the critical first two years of the network and continues to serve on the board of Si TV. In addition, he is Co-Chairman of Maya Entertainment, a bi-lingual film distribution company focused on the 12-24 Latino youth market; and Chairman of Quepasa Corp./Quepasa.com (NASDAQ-QPSA), a bi-lingual social network aimed at the US and Latin American markets. Valdez relates the importance of family and community in advancing his journey from the projects to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Please join us for this free presentation and reception.

A Neo-Chicano in a Post-Chicano World – Thursday April 22nd
Daniel Salazar is CEO and founder of RAZALAS Studio, providing media arts production and education, publishing, distribution, promotion and marketing. His films, videos and photography have been distributed throughout the U.S., Mexico, Latin America and Europe since 1979. Salazar regularly exhibits photography and other published materials in galleries, art centers and museums across the U.S. His work in film, photography and public art is described as "puncturing pretension" often eliciting controversy and surprise. He will discuss past and present projects from the perspective of a Chicano artist in the new millennium. Please join us for this free presentation and reception.

Sponsored by Auraria Library & University of Colorado Faculty Council Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee.
For more information, please email: Denise.Pan@ucdenver.edu.


Link to flyer:
http://www.ucdenver.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/assembly/downtown/committees/diversity/Documents/Speakers_ThurApril822.pdf

Volume 3, Issue 4

Open enrollment for the 2010–11 Benefits Plan Year will start on April 26 at 8 a.m. and end on May 21 at 5 p.m. mountain daylight time.


Learn more about university benefits programs for the 2010–11 Plan Year and beyond at a Benefits Forum on your campus. Payroll & Benefit Services and representatives from the university health plan team will be conducting employee forums on each campus to discuss what's new, plans for prevention and wellness initiatives and to seek employee input for future plan features.

Forum Schedule:


System Offices
2-3:30 p.m. March 30
1800 Grant St., First Floor Conference Room

UC Denver
2:30-4 p.m. March 31
1250 14th St., Room 480

UCCS
12:30-2:00 p.m. April 1
University Center, Theater, Room 302

CU-Boulder
2:30-4 p.m. April 2
Eaton Humanities Building, Room 250

Anschutz Medical Campus
2-3:30 p.m. April 6
Research 2 Building, Room 3109

For more information go to: https://www.cu.edu/pbs/openenrollment/

Classified Staff Performance Evaluations
All supervisors of classified staff are reminded that the current performance evaluation cycle for classified staff ends March 31, 2010.

Performance plans and evaluations are mandatory for all permanent classified staff, including retirees hired as permanent classified staff.

Please note: the reviewer (the second level supervisor or appointing authority) must review and sign the evaluation of an employee’s performance before it is formally presented to the employee. This does not preclude the preliminary discussion of the proposed rating between the supervisor and the employee, but it must be emphasized that any discussion about ratings are preliminary and not final.
Reviewers and employees each need to be given five (5) business days to review the ratings and sign the evaluations. Because of the proximity of the cycle’s end date to the evaluations’ due date, it is advised that supervisors begin planning now how they will manage and schedule the evaluations they need to perform. This includes scheduling access to the appropriate reviewers and evaluation sessions with employees. Please plan accordingly so the appropriate review and signatures can be obtained.

RECOMMENDED EVALUATION TIMELINE FOR SUPERVISORS
Begin consultation with employee and draft evaluation: March 25, 2010
Submit to Reviewer for review/signature and allow 5 days for review: by April 7th, 2010 at noon
Reviewers should return to supervisors by noon on April 12, 2010. Supervisors should then meet with employees to review the evaluation no later than April 19, 2010.

Completed evaluations are due to Mike Furuli no later than April 26th

Please review to make sure that all pertinent fields/sections of the evaluation form are complete and accurate before sending to Human Resources. Please be informed that under no circumstances can the supervisor and the reviewer be the same person. You may use decimals for the goal ratings or numeric scores. If the overall rating contains a decimal please round up before submitting to Human Resources.

In addition to rating each goal or objective, a narrative under the "Results achieved" section is required. We strongly recommend completing the Evaluation Narrative section to sum up the overall performance. This is required for "Below Expectations" (level 1) and "Exceeding Expectations" (level 3) ratings. Any "Below Expectations" rating must be followed by a performance improvement plan or a Corrective Action as part of the progressive discipline process. Please contact the Human Resources Department to discuss "Below Expectations" ratings and for proper steps to follow.

Supervisors must also provide their employees with a copy of the dispute resolution process (included as part of the of the planning and evaluation form) at the time of the final evaluation.
If an employee has extenuating circumstances such as extended absences during the rating period (health or otherwise), please contact the Human Resources Department for proper guidance.

Performance Management Documents
The CU Performance Management Program plan can be found at: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/HR/FormsTemplatesProcesses/Documents/Word/PerformanceManagementProgram-Final7-2009.pdf.

Training Requirement for Supervisors
As a reminder, if you are a supervisor of classified staff you are required to attend a training session on performance management. Please visit our website for a schedule of up-coming training: http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/departments/HR/training/Pages/ManagersToolbox.aspx.
Sanctions for Supervisor Non-Compliance
Per Regent policy, the following sanctions will apply to supervisors who do not comply with the requirement to complete classified staff evaluations in the proscribed timeframe:
Classified Supervisors: corrective action, five-day unpaid suspension, and ineligibility for a performance pay award.
Faculty, Officers, and Exempt Staff supervisors: Disciplinary action, five-day unpaid suspension, and potential impact on salary merit increases.
Please contact Mike Furuli at 6-6021 with any questions.
Thank you.

Web Training - User Centered Design

All are welcome to the second session of web training on user-centered design, which will be held in the ELC from 10:00 – 11:00 am on Tuesday, March 30th. (This is a make-up of the session originally scheduled on the 16th.) Please drop Nina McHale an email to let her know if you would like to attend so that she knows how many handouts, etc. to prepare.

User-centered design is the approach to web design that puts the end user’s needs first. How do we get inside student and faculty heads to present our resources in a way that is intuitive and user-friendly to them, but still satisfies our needs? Nina will give a bit of background about the concept of user-centered design at first, and then everyone will break into small groups for a more hands-on activity.

Steal This Code

“The March 2010 issue of C&RL News is now available online and in the mail. The rise of widgets, gadgets, and apps has moved academic and research libraries into a customized, mobile world. But commercial tools can often be pricey and platform-specific. In this issue, Nina McHale encourages you to “Steal this code! Please!” to create and share your own HTML widgets to provide customized access to library resources.”http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/3/136.full