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Advance May 17 focus session
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarah Mitchell)
Thu May 4 17:17:14 1995
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 17:16:55 EDT
From: Sarah Mitchell <smitchel@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 14:35:12 EDT
From: ganderso@MIT.EDU
To: Sarah Mitchell <smitchel@MIT.EDU>
cc: bog-lib@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: All Staff events for Advance
Sarah,
My reconstruction of the discussion yesterday included the comment
from Eric and the consensus nodding of heads that each
implementation group would decide how to structure its focus
session. I included Eric's name in each to help with the glue -
context, aids, documentation, and additional input and presence
that would be there for each session. I think the focus sessions
are there for the nitty-gritty issues, and the fact that we are
offering those may be one way to keep the General open session
on a level that is useful for the entire audience.
I would leave it up to each session to decide if the entire
implementation group needs to be there.
Thanks,
Greg
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>I won't be able to be in on May 15 due to a prior commitment, but,
>this looks like a reasonable schedule to me. What I'm still not clear
>from our discussion yesterday is whether each implementation group
>can decide on how they want to structure their focus sessions, or, if
>Eric is doing 1 1/2 hour training sessions for each module.
>At one point, we talked about the focus sessions as a way to handle
> the nitty gritty workflow issues. If its to be a combined training
>and Q/A session it sounds to me like we might
>need all of our implementation group at the May 17 cataloging session.
>Is that what we agreed to yesterday?
>
>--Sarah
>
>>At our BOG meeting yesterday, we discussed some ideas for all
>>staff meetings to give everyone an opportunity to prepare for the
>>Advance implementation. Below is the structure I think we were
>>settling on as we ended the discussion.
>>
>>Before proceeding with the scheduling, etc. please let me know if
>>this reflects accurately our wishes and/or if you have other ideas.
>>
>>I'd like to begin scheduling the rooms and making announcements before
>>the end of the day tomorrow so that staff would have a week to fit this
>>into their schedules.
>>
>>
>>Also, as reminder, Eric has agreed to provide an across the system
>>overview for PSAC, hitting a mid-manager perspective (framework and
>>structure of the system, overview of functionality, etc.). This could
>>be repeated for other groups as well.
>>
>>Thanks to everyone for remaining sensitive to the outreach necessities
>>of this project, even while you are all working on the details of the
>>system.
>>
>>Greg
>>
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>> ALL STAFF ACTIVITIES FOR
>>
>> ADVANCE IMPLEMENTATION AT MIT
>>
>>
>>All Staff meeting Monday, May 15
>>` 10:00 am - 11:30 am
>> (Killian?)
>> Members of BOG/Implementation teams
>> Agenda: Current status of project
>> Review of timeframe in the next month
>> Questions/discussion
>>
>>Open sessions introductions presenting each of the functional modules:
>>
>>
>> To be held in one of the Athena classrooms,
>> either in Hayden or Dewey (this is to accomodate
>> more staff and will use a telnet session and
>> projector).
>>
>>Acquisitions Monday, May 15
>> 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
>> Presenters: Acq Implementation/Eric
>>
>>Serials Monday, May 15
>> 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
>> Presenters: Serials/Eric
>>
>>Cataloging Wednesday, May 17
>> 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
>> Presenters: Cat. Implementation/Eric
>>
>>Circulation Wednesday, May 17
>> 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
>> Presenters: Circ Implementation/Eric
>>
>>
>>Please let me know if these DRAFT time slots work or if you have
>>other preferences. Also, please note that OPAC is NOT included because
>>of the previously announced open training sessions that are already
>>underway.
>>
>>
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