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		<title>On-Site: That&#8217;s A Wrap</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/on-site-thats-a-wrap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday 3/30/09. 3.5 hours. Mary Jane and I finalized the last two policies for the personnel manual: Sick Leave and Hiring and Staffing. I suggested a few changes to the Sick Leave policy that Mary Jane put to paper after last week&#8217;s lengthy discussions. Hiring and Staffing was a rewrite and combination of three existing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=372&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site: Last Policy Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 3/29/09. 2 hours. Completed work on the last two policies: Sick Leave (suggested changes to Mary Jane&#8217;s work) and Hiring and Staffing (integrating segments on Employment of Minors and Employment of Relatives, plus minor editorial changes to other sections). Transferred all policy documents to a flash drive to take to tomorrow&#8217;s final on-site meeting. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=401&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site: Policies Polishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday 3/26/09. 2 hours. Devoted some time to formatting and organizing the policies Mary Jane copied to my flash drive on 3/24. I now have all the policies and just have a couple more to edit to complete the project. I also began work on my project report. Posted in Off-Site<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=399&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On-Site: Policies Complete But For A Handful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 3/24/09. 5 hours. Mary Jane and I spent the afternoon going through the personnel policies manual one policy at a time. We confirmed the policies that were complete, the new policies that the board of trustees has approved, and the policies we hadn&#8217;t looked at yet. We tweaked some of my policies and reviewed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=368&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site: Policy Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday 3/23/09. 3 hours. Continued rewriting the Administrative Leave and Progressive Discipline policies. Also tweaked the Emergency Closure policy. Posted in Off-Site<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=397&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site: More Policy Research</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/off-site-more-policy-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 3/22/09. 3 hours. Mary Jane and I established early in the policy evaluation state that it was not necessary to have one since we wrote in the manual&#8217;s introduction that the library conforms to all federal/state/local laws. I read in an online HR journal that an Equal Opportunity statement is an essential protection for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=395&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On-Site: Levy Campaign Meeting</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/on-site-levy-campaign-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[levy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[speaker's bureau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday 3/19/09. 2 hours. With approximately six weeks left until election day, the full committee met as a group for only the second time. The meeting was lively! Marilyn, Mary Jane, and Shea spoke on behalf of the speaker&#8217;s bureau, finance, and PR committees. Library administrators have been very busy speaking before anyone who would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=358&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On-Site: Miscellaneous Plus A Board Meeting</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/on-site-miscellaneous-plus-a-board-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frant & Ernest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 3/17/09. 5.5 hours. Mary Jane was running a little late &#8211; she had lunch with Patrick Losinski, the director of CML &#8211; so I worked on policies and talked with DCDL assistant director Don Yarman. Mary Jane and I looked over more policies and talked about the upcoming board meeting. I took part in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=355&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off-Site: Clean-Up Day</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/off-site-policy-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday 3/15/09. 2 hours. This was a clean-up and organization day for me. Organized paper files in preparation for building my practicum notebook. Read and made notes on policies that Mary Jane rewrote and gave to me for review. Reformatted policies that I wrote to conform to the new DCDL standard. The original personnel policies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=393&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-Point Meeting With My Advisor</title>
		<link>http://dtdslisblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/mid-point-meeting-with-my-advisor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Dennison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday 3/13/09. 1 hour 15 minutes. Prof. Matteson and I met to review my progress. We had a good talk and I left her with copies of the policies I have revised or written from scratch. We also discussed a minor KSU bureaucratic nightmare. I registered for my practicum in Spring 2008 and have taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dtdslisblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5788883&amp;post=321&amp;subd=dtdslisblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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