Goal 5: Encouraging staff development resources

Staff training

Library staff were given the opportunity to attend nine lunchtime talks during 2002 organised by the Staff Development Committee. Most sessions were conducted by current library staff to inform other staff of projects being undertaken and conferences attended. University personnel from Monash International, Student and Staff Services and Monash South Africa Library also presented sessions. A staff development day was held by Matheson library in December 2002 and focused on team building exercises under the guidance of Jill Wilson, Director Information Resources, and other support staff.

Staff members, Simon Huggard and Helen Wolff, display their library team award certificates, presented at the annual staff lunch in December 2002.

Seven staff were granted study leave for 2002.

Conferences and meetings attended included:

ALIA Conference
ALIA Information Literacy Forum
Australian Map Circle Conference
Community Networking Conference
CRIG Seminar
DIG Seminar
IAML Conference
IFLA Conference
International Lifelong Learning Conference
Kinetica Annual Users Meeting
Leadership in Action
National Resource Sharing Forum
The Inside Story, Library Interiors Forum
VALA Conference
Voyager User Group Meeting

Staff awards

Under the library's performance recognition scheme, awards were made to the following staff:

• Denise Balint, Information Resources
• Georgina Binns, Music and Multi Media
• Kristine Bromfield, Facilities and Purchasing
• Andrew Dixon, Caulfield Library
• Andrew Harrison, Digitisation Centre
• Netta Hinde, Information Resources
• Joyce Jenkin, Peninsula Library
• Susan Little, Sir Louis Matheson Library

Team awards

• Joan Gray and Simon Huggard
• Xandria Hughes & Helen Wolff
• Digitisation centre staff
• Information resources - ELISTEM team
• Flexible library service team
• Law Library staff
• Matheson Library loans staff

Manual handling project

The Facilities and Purchasing Unit continued the Manual Handling Project, which was started in 2001. Focus groups assessed the design of book trolleys, layout of the discharge areas at Matheson and Caulfield libraries, and the Information Resources Division deliveries area including intercampus loan handling. Based on the feedback improvements were made in the work areas and arrangements made with the manufacturer to produce a new trolley that met the requirements of the attendants.