Fall workshop updates

Hello Committee.We had a nicely productive meeting on Tuesday at Perkins. In attendance: Clara Hudson, Tina Hertel, Annette Fisher, Sandy Howard and Maryann SodoswkiHere are the updatesOur speakers are Sue Butler and Barbara Keiser from the Eastern Monroe Public Library and Terri Freeman-Smith and Bob Spinelli from the University of Scranton. Sue and Barbara bring the library perspective of Human Resources and Terri and Bob will address legal issues from a strictly professional and technical side. The workshop will be held in the afternoon 12:30-4 at Lackawanna College the second or third week of January. I have send messages to our speakers asking for best dates. Thanks to Sandy Howard for attending and hosting along with Wayne and Elaine for agreeing to participate in the planning. Parking shouldn’t be a problem in that Lackawanna will have a limited number of classes during winter break. We had a tentative title of “Hire the Smile” but following discussion we are fishing about for an alternative, your suggestions are encouraged. Our topic is employee retention, logistical, legal, and human resource issues in the library. Our speakers would appreciate your questions to help focus their talks. So as managers, employees, colleagues, supervisors; what do you want to know?We have most things on our checklist covered:Tina: flyer (printing and distribution), electronic (listserv and NPLN site posting) PR Sandy: Contact for registration, contact for refreshments at Lackawanna CollegeClara and Sandy: scheduling room and date, participant incentives – we will get what we can from Lackawanna College bookstore but it was suggested that we get pens or folders printed with the NPLN logo. I am going to follow through on that option for general purposes as well as for the workshop. Annette and Maryann: day of registrationMaryann: CE Clara: Agenda and speaker biosAnnette: evaluationsRegistration fee will be $10.00 dollars. As the details come together next week we can get the flyer started and hopefully out by the end of the month. Thanks for all your efforts. I will be in touch soon.
Clara