I have received more official information regarding Voluntary Furloughs and Voluntary Separation Incentives and have distributed to all Classified Staff and their supervisors a letter which provides some detail. You can view the letter at: http://intranet.auraria.edu/wiki/images/a/a9/VSIP-retirement_letter_3-18-09.doc
For further information you can contact Marical Farner or Cindy Melvin in UCD Human Resources at 303-315-2706.
Technical Services Announcement
Starting Monday April 6th the interior backdoor of Room 118 will be closed and unlocked during business hours (8-5). All library staff and faculty will still be able to enter without a key during business hours. However, signs are posted on the exterior and interior back doors, instructing visitors to knock for admittance.
Let me know if you have questions or see Shared Leadership Team meeting minutes for further information http://intranet.auraria.edu/wiki/index.php/SLT_Meeting_Minutes_4-2-09.
Room 245 Fundraising Progress
With gifts from Bill Jackson ($55,000), Friends Group ($25,000), Luff Family Foundation ($25,000), and misc. ($6,000), a total of $111,000 has been raised toward a $150,000 goal to remodel Room 245. These generous gifts will enable us to duplicate the success in the Jackson Enhanced Learning Center in the second floor instruction room 245.
The Library is in need of an entertainment committee whose basic charge will be planning and facilitating retirement parties, potlucks and annual recognition events. The committee may choose to expand its charge to include birthdays or other employee related entertainment events and recognition. If interested, please contact Marical Farner by Tuesday, April 14th. If you are interested in acting as a volunteer when you are available, but do not want to serve as a committee member, please contact Marical as well.
Update from the Technology Department:
Now that our staffing has stabilized, we are slowly getting things in order. This week we worked on the following projects:
· Doug is working on organizing old equipment for recycling-though we have gotten the word
that we can’t get anything picked up for a while.
· All of us have been working on getting our purchasing in order. Niraj has started a new system for keeping track of purchases. We are determining what we have and who it is for. We didn’t have staff to open and set up computers in the last few months, so we are working through waiting equipment right now. Niraj and I are working to figure out how much money is left in our budget so we can finish our spending.
· Niraj has been doing a lot of work/research in order to upgrade our ILL technology and get
it set up in a new area. This will be a time consuming project.
· Doug has been working his way through Bugzilla tickets, catching up on the backlog.
· We will deploy 11 new laptops in ELC. We are working on the image.
· Doug and I researched some options for projection in the Friends Conference Room.
· Nina, Niraj and I worked on Disaster Recovery information for the Continuation of Operations Committee.
· I arranged for John Culshaw from the Norlin library at the University of Boulder to speak to the Learning Commons Planning Committee this past Tuesday about the project at Norlin.
· I contacted ITS to see when we could start the joint project which will evaluate all of our server applications and move those that are viable over to virtual servers at ITS. At the same time we hope to clean up any troublesome network setups. I also asked them to help us with some input on the local computer permissions. We want to keep the extra work that will be required for maintenance to a minimum, while also giving people more freedom. In addition I am asking them to train some of us on technology roll-outs and project lifecycles.
· We have been working on departmental goals and individual plans. Here is a list of some of our departmental goals for the next year:
v ITS Networking Project
v Permissions Investigations Project
v Learning Commons Planning Committee (Meg)
v Improved communication between the department and the library
v Tech Strategy Committee start up---this committee will be writing a technology plan, make a
list of assignments for the Emerging Technology Subcommittee, etc.
v Emerging Technology Committee start up
v Toy library-project of the Emerging Technology Committee
v Single Sign on/Library Applications—trying to make using things like Bugzilla and Basecamp easier
v Doug-apple training
v Bugzilla-Working to make this easier to use
v Off hours support plan
v Departmental training
v Taking over the maintenance in the Library Commons from MSCD
v Working to transfer the Pay for Print operation to Clicks
v Analyze Bugzilla Data and use it to improve workflow/education/etc.
A few more notes: Rick will be devoting himself entirely to III issues and no longer helping out in our department. We thank Rick for all of his tireless help in the past. Thanks to the people who applied to be on the Emerging Technology Committee. This committee has been delayed until the Technology Strategy Committee gets started. Niraj and Doug will be in touch.
-Meg
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