Attended my first team meeting this morning. Senior Staff. About a dozen of us in a room across the way while our extension is being finished.

Very similar to TheOldPlace really - except starting 15 minutes later and having to put the desks and seats into some sort of order. Perhaps slightly fewer agenda items but chunkier ones as it were so the meeting still went on for a little short of two hours.

Most interesting item was the Head trying to change the membership of the meeting. He'd circulated a document earlier which had outlined plans that I must admit that I'd been a little taken aback by. It turned out I wasn't the only one. There seemed to be much unhappiness about the idea of only half the faculty librarians attending the meeting, doing two years and then swapping over. That was so that the floor managers could attend. No one is unhappy at the latter though, so although it's a little more complicated than that, it was finally agreed to simply swell the ranks of the meeting - going from 15 possible attendees to 18. Which might be too big - but then, not everyone gets there everytime.

The team meetings at TheOldPlace could get rather large when everyone was there, but somehow we managed it. And it seems a better way to go, even if not ideal, than having people feeling left out.

What I was particularly interested to see was my mentor (one of the faculty librarians like me) expressing her opinion and getting somewhat het up about it in a very similar manner to the way I used to at TheOldPlace when I felt strongly about something. It's hard to keep the passion and feeling out. So I was glad to see it wasn't just me!