08/20/2002
8/20/02 2:00PM meeting at Five Colleges
Present: S.W. Brown, S. Berger, M. Hanley, R. Fonfa, J. Schafer, J.
Jourdain
1. We accepted the minutes of the 8/06/02 meeting.
2. We confirmed the meeting schedule for the next two months. (In
October, we may try to schedule a second October meeting.)
3. An update on TDNet: it's going well. Most (99.5% according to
Brian Noone at TDNet) of the data is already loaded so we're at the stage of tweaking things. HC has already made it "live" on their website; MHC and SC expect to go live later this week. The only thing needed right now is the Help page content from RIO.
4. There has been an unexpected delay with the Five College website
redesign, so we tabled further discussion about it.
5. From our "ideas" list we selected cross-library site searching as
something we might be able to accomplish quickly with the least expense.
6. We discussed ways of better communicating with the various other
Five College library committees. As stated in DEDCC's charge: "The Committee [DEDCC] will have a deliberative role and important roles in coordinating and communicating. It will ... communicate with all standing committees ... " In an effort to fulfill that responsibility, DEDCC proposes that each of its members to serve as liaison to each of the other FC Committees. These liaisons will offer a simple method of relaying information to and from DEDCC and the other committees as we all undertake new projects or work on existing ones. The DEDCC liaison assignments to the other FC Committees are:
Archives Stephanie Willen Brown
Cataloging Marilyn Hanley
Circulation Sika Berger
Collection Management Jay Schafer
RIO Raven Fonfa
Ser/Acq Jan Jourdain
We will establish this new communication channel by each first contacting the chairs of our respective FC committees and explaining our intent as liaisons. We will then ask that someone from each of the committees be designated as the liaison back to DEDCC. (The individual may be the FC Committee's Chair, but not necessarily so; the appointment is totally at the discretion of the FC Committee or its Chair.) Further, we will each ask our FC Committee contacts about what is on their Committee's agenda for the upcoming year and inform them of what projects DEDCC is considering and discuss ways DEDCC and the other Committee can collaborate for the benefit of all.
7. We began discussion about which of our two most complex ideas
(federated searching or open URL technology) has the greater likelihood of successful consortial implementation. We tentatively outlined a timetable for more detailed investigation of the two ideas for FCLC to review at their upcoming retreat.
Action Items -
Old/Ongoing:
A. Continued individual review of information regarding issues on ideas list
New:
B. Sika will research Google options for multi-site searching and
report on them at our Sept 23 meeting.
C. Marilyn will check with Margo regarding the III module budget
request timetable.
D. Stephanie will ask Chris to give us feedback from FCLC regarding our
proposal for liaisons to the other FC Committees.
Next meeting: Monday, Sept 9, 2-3:30 @ Five Colleges -tentative agenda:
continued discussion of ideas list, TDNet update, Five College website update
