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01/28/2005
Meeting Notes

DEDCC 01/28/05 meeting at Five Colleges - notes

Present: S. Berger, M. Billings, C. Loring, L. Button, S. Brown, J. Jourdain

We scheduled our spring semester meetings: 02/18, 03/11, 04/01, 04/22, 05/13, all at 9AM, Five Colleges. M. Billings will attend when possible during her sabbatical.

We discussed the FCLC’s response to our memo suggesting that it might be worthwhile to have a unified privacy policy. Essentially, FCLC believes that privacy issues would best be managed on an institutional, rather than consortial, basis, particularly when other campus agencies, not just libraries, are a factor.

We continued to develop plans for the upcoming brown bag, “Hot Technology in Libraries,” scheduled for February 25 at Hampshire. S. Brown will draft an announcement. Further info, including suggested background reading on RFID, blogs, and ContentDM will be posted on the DEDCC website soon.

There continue to be questions about the status of the TDNet contract. Some libraries (AC and HC) have been relying on the SFX A-Z list rather than TDNet for some time, but UM isn’t using the A-Z list yet. SC hasn't made the SFX A-Z list public, pushing instead the Citation Linker's journal title search. SC continues to update and link to TDNet, but staff question the need with SFX v.3 coming soon. We understand that the Acquisitions and Serials Committee has informed the FCLC of pending changes to the TDNet contract reflecting AC and HC’s desire to drop their subscriptions. S. Berger provided excellent information regarding MARCit!, which will be useful during the ALEPH implementation process.

M. Billings provided an update on still-pending III enhancements. Most desired new features have been implemented, but still outstanding are the reading history (waiting for RIO feedback before proceeding), “limit to available" and display of item call numbers on summary list results screen, and link to SFX from the journal title search page. M. Billings said she would finalize both soon.

Agreeing unanimously that digital object management (DOM) is a critical concern, we spent the remainder of the meeting strategizing on how best to address the pressing need for a solution for the Five Colleges. We are thinking of DOM as larger than image databases, streaming media servers, institutional repositories, or digital publishing individually. It is really a combination of all of these and there needs to be an effort to bring as many constituents as possible into the discussion as quickly as possible to seek a unified, if not uniform, solution to the need. We are cognizant that it will be difficult to undertake something as big as DOM while the ALEPH implementation is ongoing, but we see no viable alternative. M. Billings will draft a memo to FCLC regarding the urgent need for collaboration among several Five Colleges groups to plan a DOM solution.

Next meeting: Friday, February 18, 9AM, Five Colleges


	Meeting Notes > 2005 minutes 01/28/2005 Meeting Notes DEDCC 01/28/05 meeting at Five Colleges - notes Present: S. Berger, M. Billings, C. Loring, L. Button, S. Brown, J. Jourdain We scheduled our spring semester meetings: 02/18, 03/11, 04/01, 04/22, 05/13, all at 9AM, Five Colleges. M. Billings will attend when possible during her sabbatical. We discussed the FCLC’s response to our memo suggesting that it might be worthwhile to have a unified privacy policy. Essentially, FCLC believes that privacy issues would best be managed on an institutional, rather than consortial, basis, particularly when other campus agencies, not just libraries, are a factor. We continued to develop plans for the upcoming brown bag, “Hot Technology in Libraries,” scheduled for February 25 at Hampshire. S. Brown will draft an announcement. Further info, including suggested background reading on RFID, blogs, and ContentDM will be posted on the DEDCC website soon. There continue to be questions about the status of the TDNet contract. Some libraries (AC and HC) have been relying on the SFX A-Z list rather than TDNet for some time, but UM isn’t using the A-Z list yet. SC hasn't made the SFX A-Z list public, pushing instead the Citation Linker's journal title search. SC continues to update and link to TDNet, but staff question the need with SFX v.3 coming soon. We understand that the Acquisitions and Serials Committee has informed the FCLC of pending changes to the TDNet contract reflecting AC and HC’s desire to drop their subscriptions. S. Berger provided excellent information regarding MARCit!, which will be useful during the ALEPH implementation process. M. Billings provided an update on still-pending III enhancements. Most desired new features have been implemented, but still outstanding are the reading history (waiting for RIO feedback before proceeding), “limit to available" and display of item call numbers on summary list results screen, and link to SFX from the journal title search page. M. Billings said she would finalize both soon. Agreeing unanimously that digital object management (DOM) is a critical concern, we spent the remainder of the meeting strategizing on how best to address the pressing need for a solution for the Five Colleges. We are thinking of DOM as larger than image databases, streaming media servers, institutional repositories, or digital publishing individually. It is really a combination of all of these and there needs to be an effort to bring as many constituents as possible into the discussion as quickly as possible to seek a unified, if not uniform, solution to the need. We are cognizant that it will be difficult to undertake something as big as DOM while the ALEPH implementation is ongoing, but we see no viable alternative. M. Billings will draft a memo to FCLC regarding the urgent need for collaboration among several Five Colleges groups to plan a DOM solution. Next meeting: Friday, February 18, 9AM, Five Colleges