Agenda

Meeting notes--Flo

• RSC recommendation on content enrichment of ACORN
• SACS
• Continuation of discussion of discontinuing adding physical libraries to Acorn records for electronic resources (see Mar. 7)
• New fund structure for electronic resources.
• Announcements
  • Seating sweep
  • GIS site license
  • Project SAILS

Meeting notes

• RSC recommended that we not move forward with enriching ACORN in the same way that Primo records will be enriched with book jackets, TOC, reviews, etc. Extending it to ACORN in the future may be desirable, but at the moment it would consume staff time in planning and execution that is needed elsewhere. Not having it in ACORN may add to the contrast between Primo and ACORN, potentially giving us a better idea of comparative user reactions. The LDC concurred, reserving the expectation that we might want to reconsider in the future.
• SACS study. The results of the University's prepared SACS self-study are not readily available to the University community. Paul will be urging archiving of the information for the future.
• Adding physical libraries to Acorn records for e-resources. A little follow-up conversation from our March 7 meeting let to agreement with the recommendation of the Collections Committee. Divinity will add their library where it seems desirable to do so for user searching purposes; Law will continue to add Law to their records. Other libraries may find exceptions where there is a reason to add the library name along with the Internet Library, but this will be an exception and initiated by the Library; Cataloging can discontinue this as a practice.
• The Collections Committee has recommended the addition of new book funds for use with e-resources. Additions would include funds for e-books, e-journals, indexes/abstracts, and other e-resources (one time and subscription for each). In the discussion, it was decided to add another category for combined index/fulltext. The Council also talked about a time frame for implementation; while the interest is in making the change for 2007/2008, a lot of work will need to be done to make this change, and some are not sure it can happen so quickly. The Collections Committee, which includes Roberta and Mary Ellen, will discuss the implications of making this change and will develop an implementation plan. Mary Ellen had come up with a possible way to structure the fund numbers for these new book funds. John will send this out.
• Announcements
  • Flo reminded people that the seating sweep (headcount of people in the library along with the kind of seating they're using) is scheduled for next week.
  • The GIS site license has been finalized, and the software is available as people want to get it. Full implementation of ArcINFO (server version) will take a bit longer for working out the logistics. Contact Jacob Thornton.
  • We will be conducting a test of Project SAILS next week. We're expecting 100+ students to take the information literacy assessment test.