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I-Share User’s Group Meeting
October 25, 2007
Conference Call
Members Attending: David Bell, Sarah McHone-Chase, Xiaotian Chen, Keith Eiten, Paula Garrett, Stephanie Graves, Tom Goetz, Dallas Long, Carlos Melian, Larissa Moebs, Stephen Smith
Members Absent: Carol Reid
CARLI Staff attending: Kristine Hammerstrand, Cathy Salika, Paige Weston
Decisions
- Minutes from September approved.
- Next meeting November 30, 2007 CARLI office with conference call option
- Create “Small Libraries” listserv to allow discussion forum for small libraries
- Larissa will help seed some early discussion points and will contact originator of small library concerns for more discussion ideas
- Each team liaison will discuss with team to determine interest
- Obtain data from Resource Sharing forum responses to inform recommendation to Program Planning Committee regarding a copyright workshop.
CARLI Board Report: (Kristine Hammerstrand)
- Cindy Clennons announced as the new Director of CARLI Electronic Resources
- Momentum on CARLI office move is down pending other ongoing projects
- UIUC IT department audited CARLI libraries and insists no more SSNs in patron records, therefore it is now CARLI policy – see minutes on webs
CARLI Office Report: (Paige Weston and Kristine Hammerstrand)
- Katrina Little announced as the new CARLI billing staff member
- Very busy with forums this month
- The Collection Enhancement Awards Group is having a meeting – register by November 6
- Electronic Resources Subscription Cycle open 10/23 – 11/19
- Delivery system moving forward
- 172 libraries now signed up
- Demo of web system for CARLI staff 10/25 afternoon
- Lanter visiting libraries beginning 2nd week of November
- Robert Mercer (ExLibris president) visited with Susan Singleton and Kris Hammerstrand 10/25 morning
- Contract renewal meeting for WebFeat November 16, 2007
Team Reports:
Acquisitions and Serials Team: (Carlos Melian)
- Progressing on November 29 forum planning
Cataloging and Authority Control: (Stephen Smith)
- Fall forum planning (Cataloging Matters: Looking Forward)
- Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at UIS
- Topics include 1) possible new front-ends to the I-Share integrated library system; 2) new developments related to I-Share cataloging workflows; 3) an introduction to Strawn's location changer software; and 4) issues in name/title and series authority control
- Editing duties assigned for updating the MARC tag tables
- Completed revisions for the Suppress/Replace Routine Changes documentation
- 2nd call for DCUG data standards volunteers
Resource Sharing Team: (Sarah McHone-Chase)
- Final preparation for November 9 forum
- Forum will be blogged
Instruction Team: (Stephanie Graves)
- Final preparation for forum November 7
- Get new wiki populated with some content
OPAC Team: (Tom Goetz)
- Created a wiki to record issues while testing VuFind with Voyager
Discussion Topics
- Copyright issues as they pertain to libraries workshop:
- Possibly series of workshops
- Goal to give librarians concrete assistance with policy development
- Tentatively continue discussion in November, but table to January if data not available
- Liaison Forum
- Add Copyright issues pending responses to Resource Sharing Forum
Suggestion from an individual at an I-Share member library to hold a Small Libraries Forum
- Some question about interest level/need
- Try listserv, blog, wiki options
- Does IUG need to be facilitator, include this as another area in forums, have opening session panel with representatives from all size groups, then afternoon discussions
- Consider adding Small Libraries as an Interest Group
- Possibly add to forums FY 08-09
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