bhlstaffcalloct182012

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Agenda

Recap of the BHL Staff and Technical Meeting (Bianca) [overall topics-5; action item review-10; questions-5]
Upcoming PR Campaigns [2]
- Catesby Tercentennial is Nov. 5-9. Send me an email if your institution is doing any special events for it.
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How can we move the discussion of BHL Goals forward? (Grace) [3]
Mission follow up discussion (Grace) [35]
- Goal for the discussion: What really are the most important words to use to represent our Business, Values, and Audience? We need to reach a consensus.

Notes

What	Status	Next Steps	Who	Final Due
Composing a BHL Mission Statement	Staff provided input via Re-evaluating BHL Mission & Goals survey; 1st stage of discussions - brainstorming our Business, Values, and Audience completed at BHL Staff meeting	Need a working group to take top terms for Business, Values and Audience and craft some DRAFT statements	???	In time to release the new BHL AU-USome UI
Revising BHL Goals	Staff provided input via Re-evaluating BHL Mission & Goals survey; 1st stage of discussions - identifying overall themes for our goals completed at BHL Staff Meeting	Need a working group to prepare summary document for IC and suggested next steps.	???	Final DRAFT of goals due in time for IC March Meeting

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