July 9, 2015 (55 total)

Date: July 9, 2015

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm

Hours Completed: 3 (55 total)

Administration:

Today I attended meetings with the library director.  The Director's Council of the Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System (a council made up all the library director's the in system) meets once a month with the system staff and board members.  The meeting consisted of staff member reports new business in the system and reports from individual libraries.  The was a lot of focus on the upcoming budget that needs to be approved.  Because of Jefferson county leaving the system at the end of the year, there were some changes in the system budget that affects the individual libraries.  The council also discussed a previous meeting with the Winnifox system and a strategic planning meeting that took place a few weeks ago.  Another change is that the system in no longer using Zinio for online magazine subscriptions and will instead use a service provided by Overdrive.  Many library directors were concerned about how the changes will influence patron usage and statistics.

After the Director's Council meeting, the director's in the Trio catalog meet.  I noticed that the meeting was conducted very differently because it was run by the director's themselves instead of the system staff and board members.  I was surprised by the number of additional committees that Trio has including the catalog and the circulation committee.  Since Jefferson county will be leaving at the end of the year, several chairs on Trio as well as the committees needed to be filled at this meeting and next meeting.

When the meetings were over, I went out to lunch with Roberta and several of the other library directors.  This was a great chance for me to meet the directors that I will be working with in the near future when I start my full hours at the library in Lomira.  I was able to see how the director's interacted with each other and heard how they felt about all of the changes taking place in the system.