June 2004

Library Student Handbook used as Campus model
By Ellen Young, Administrative Analyst

Starting with this issue, Floor to Floor will have a regular column from AST. What is AST? Administrative Services Team. Who is AST? Lillie, Angela, Kerry, Jenny, Carol (Bowyer), Ellen, Kim, Tamara, Fred, & Terry. TW

The second edition of the Library Student Employees Handbook was used as a model for a handbook developed by the Financial Aid Office. This new handbook will be distributed to hundreds of work study student employees, both on and off campus, and their supervisors. Pat Schindler, Work Study Employment Coordinator, noted that the Library handbook is a valuable model for other program centers because it is comprehensive and addresses important issues that come up in the workplace.

The Student Employees Advisory Committee (SEAC) developed the original edition of the handbook and periodically revises it with input from student employees and their supervisors. The handbook is a policies and procedures manual for all students employed in the Library. Current members of SEAC include: Susan Saechao, Dzifa Duose,--Student Representatives, Ellen Young--Chair, and James Summerfield, Jamie Lamberti, Lorraine Saiz and Lisa Van Handel.

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Library Intranet: An Update and an Invitation to Participate
By Carlos Rodriguez, Chair of the Intranet Design & Implementation Team

This past year, the Intranet Development and Implementation Team (IDIT) has been working very hard developing the Library’s Web-based Intranet. IDIT members include: Andy Osburn, Bin Zhang, Carlos Rodriguez, Jamie Lamberti, Jim Hayes, Lillie Jones, Maria Kochis, Mary Reddick and Richard Cotenas. We are now at a point where we would like to invite all library employees to see and comment on the progress to date. If you recall, we had sent a draft of the Intranet design document to all library employees in August of 2003 and January of 2004. The design document will and has served as the blueprint for building the Intranet. IDIT will distribute the revised Design Document to all library employees in early July. We also plan on releasing a Beta version of the Intranet around that same time. We would like to receive your feedback (via email or by sharing them with a member of IDIT) during the month of July on both the design document and the Beta version of the Intranet Interface. In order to allow for better discussion of the Intranet, IDIT will be hosting two open discussion sessions on the Intranet. These sessions are scheduled for Tuesday, July 13 from 12pm – 1pm and on Wednesday, July 14 from 12pm – 1pm. Both sessions will be held in Room 2022. All library employees are encouraged to attend.

Editor: Kathryn Blackmer Reyes Assistant Editor: Laura Archbold Floor to Floor is a monthly publication from the CSUS University Library. The newsletter fosters communications and promotes a community spirit within the Library. Deadline submission for the next Floor to Floor, July 21, 2004, released July26, 2004.