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I-Share Users’ Group Meeting Minutes

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Date: Aug 29, 2008
CARLI Office

Members Attending:
Carlos Melian, Chair    (2006-2009 St. U)        Northeastern University
Xiaotian Chen         (2006-2009, Pr),             Bradley University
Keith Eiten         (2007-2010, Pr),             Wheaton College
Stephanie Graves         (2006-2009, St.U),         Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Sarah McHone-Chase    (2007-2010, St.U),         Northern Illinois University
Jason Rossi         (2009-2011, Pr)             Robert Morris College
Karen Whisler         (2009-2011, StU)         Eastern Illinois University
Carol Reid         (2007-2010, CC),         Heartland Community College
Stephen Smith         (2007-2010, St. U),         University of Illinois at Springfield
Sandy Craig,         (2008-2011, CC)            Illinois Eastern Community Colleges
Alexis Rogers         (2008-2010CC)            Lincoln Land Community College

Members Absent: Mary Burkee (2009-2011, StU), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

CARLI Staff Attending: Lorna Engels, Cathy Salika

Decisions:

  • Minutes approved: As Amended
  • Next meeting: Sept. 19, 2008 12:30-4:00

CARLI Board Report: Meets on Sept. 19, 2008

Team Reports:

  • Acquisitions & Serials Team, reported by Karen Whisler
    • Sharon Nelson is Team Chair
    • Joint IACQ/ICAT Forum on Technical Services Workflow Analysis is planned for September 10, 2008 at Hilton Garden Inn, Champaign.
    • Voyager 7 offers many improvements for ACQ module; a spring forum to get ready for summer upgrade is possible.
    • Quarterly conference call-ins continue in Oct, Dec, Mar and June
  • Cataloging and Authority Control Team, reported by Stephen Smith
    • New chair is Cason Snow; conference calls planned monthly
    • Discussed ‘revised charge’ for IUG
    • Forum on September 10  with Acq/Ser Team
    • Another forum contemplated in the spring
  • Resource Sharing Team, reported by Sarah McHone-Chase
    • Fall forum at Millikin, Oct 29 about privacy with breakouts to discuss course reserves, e-reserve products, etc>
  • Instruction Team, reported by Stephanie Graves
    • Randi Sutter is new chair
    • Possible Spring 09 Forum, perhaps with Public Services Working Group
    • Discussion of charge of this team as some interests extend beyond I-Share; best practices would mean broader scope; for example, podcasting tutorials may target how to best do a podcast (storyboarding, etc)
  • OPAC Team reported, by Keith Eiten
    • Jonathan Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Amanda Pippitt, Millikin University, co-chairs
    • Paige Weston presented VUFind
    • Webinar on Voyager 7.0, discussion on upgrade and schedule
    • Discussion of Google Books imports


CARLI Office report, reported by Lorna Engels

  • Approx. 22 libraries interested in VUFind, even though it is still in development; Paige is starting an FAQ page about VUFind. Preliminary tests from Eastern indicate students love it, but still in Beta stage.
  • CARLI will offer training on Voyager clients this fall (cataloging, serials, acquisition, etc)
  • CARLI Liaison Group is working on committee guidelines,  including scheduling (example: forums)

Agenda Discussion:

  • Review of Charge and Discussion of future direction; hope to have reviewed by CARLI Board meeting in Dec. Would include overview of all teams that report to IUG
  • Ad Hoc Statistics Task Force call sent out and has had volunteer response
  • Spring Copyright Forum has been submitted to Program Planning committee, waiting for funding. Planned for March 20, 2009 at UIC, limited to about 100 participants
    Liaison Forum or Reports Forum tabled to discuss closer to Voyager 7.0 upgrade

Future Agenda Items

  • Invitation to Instruction Team to September meeting to discuss their charge
  • Liaisons discuss (IUG and the Team’s) charges with each Team
  • Review Ad Hoc Task Force volunteers and form Task Force, invite to October meeting
  • Liaison or Reports Forum, target date for Feb 26 or 27 (with snow date of March 4)

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