Public Services Committee Meeting: May 15, 2014

Phone Conference

Members attending: Rebecca Brown (College of DuPage); Anne Buchanan (Saint Xavier University); Rosanne Cordell (Northern Illinois University), Paula Garrett (Illinois Math and Science Academy); Andrew Lenaghan (Joliet Junior College); Jennifer Sauzer (Columbia College); David Stern, chair (Illinois State University); Tori Tracy (Prairie State College)
Members absent: Marianne Ryan (Northwestern University)
Staff attending: Debbie Campbell, Elizabeth Clarage
Guests attending: None

Announcements:

• An Annual Report, including what was done this year and future plans, is due at the end of May
• E-book PDA program June 2 at the iHotel at the University of Illinois - registration has been announced.

Discussions:

• Review of IACRL preconference wrap-up.
  • Public site has been greatly enhanced by Debbie.
  • Committee members will check their sections and send updates to Debbie.
  • We will watch traffic to the site.
  • Consider using CARLI listservs to drive traffic to site.
  • Promotion and maintenance yet to be decided.
• Security Forum.
  • Anne and Tori will help with the registration table.
  • Discussion questions will be placed at each table to enhance lunch discussions, may ask for quick feedback, if anyone has great discussion to share.
  • Agenda, registration, logistics are all set and going well.
• White Paper.
  • Should include cover sheet with member names, header Phase 1
  • Andrew will have transitions done by the end of the month, aiming for the 20th
  • David will write intro, which can also be the Executive Summary for the CARLI Board
  • David will also write the next steps
  • Committee should send changes to David through email so we only have one correct version
  • White Paper will go to all CARLI members
• Future Projects.
  • Considered action items at the end of the paper: create list of reports libraries find useful, share local queries, discuss implications for collaborative efforts
  • Shared SQL's must work for multiple institutions for CARLI to post
  • Questions and comments will be directed to CARLI support and CARLI will forward to appropriate committee

Decisions:

• Becky was selected to take minutes
• April minutes were approved

Tasks Assigned:

• Debbie and Elizabeth will send a link to a sample Annual Report
• David will write a draft of the Annual Report
• Andrew will send Debbie text for Spaces page

Meeting Dates and Deadlines:

• Our next meeting will be June 19th.
• Library Security Forum at COD on June 16th.