SIRS Meeting of May 14, 2003
Minutes


PRESENT:  Garber, Laguerre, Mattlage, Norris-Gonzalez, Roberts, Todd
(recording), Yocco (facilitating), Zeliff

ABSENT:  Chadley, Stefany


There were no adjustments to the agenda.

Round Robin:
Cindy reported that the summer weekend sign-up sheet will go 
up once the Summer Hours have been finalized.  Alan reported that 
Lori told his team to hold off on desk scheduling.  Cindy has 
forwarded a copy of a reduced hours proposal that arrived in her 
in-box during our meeting.

Please do not remove floppy disks from the Lost and Found box 
and give them to users who simply need floppies.  Disks are sold 
at the McKeldin Copy Shop.  Lost and Found materials are not simply 
give aways!

Behavior at the Desk.
We had a lively discussion about a reported incident of a McKeldin Info
Desk librarian who knowingly fabricated an erroneous answer for a
telephone user’s question.  The user later called to complain about the
misinformation.  Not only does this behavior reflect badly on all of us
who work that desk, it reflects badly on the Libraries.  Such an action
was unethical.  SIRS suggests that all of us look at the ALA Code of
Ethics:
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Statements_and_Policies/Code_of_Ethics/Code_of_Ethics.htm

Subject team representatives agreed to report on this incident and SIRS
discussion with their teams.