Minutes of October 2001 Meeting

Present:

Ann Montanaro, Leslie Murtha, Myoung Wilson , Julie Still, John Maxymuk, Judy Gardner, Natalie Borisovetts , Jeanne Boyle, Marty Kesselman, Theo Haynes, Rebecca Gardner

Absent:

Tom Frusciano, Bob Sewell, Samson Soong

MARC Holdings and IPAC -- Julie Still

Distributed a sample record showing display of MARC holdings from the test catalog for Arizona Quarterly. Will clarify if cancelled notes are always present. A note that says an item is currently received is desired, and "shelved by title" might better be stated "shelved alphabetically by title". MARC holdings is a standard whose implementation will enable us to move more easily into our next system.

Julie reported that the languages limit will be reduced to only the 20 most frequently occuring languages, IPAC is split on keyword vs. browse as the default, and IPAC will reconsider the decision to represent e-resources on separate records.

AUL Update -- Jeanne:

• All Proquest records have been removed from IRIS except for ABI. Sam is working on Proquest in webpages (done).
• J. Bryan, Princeton AUL for Public Services and Collection met with RUL AULs. Princeton withdrew from the NJ State Library Network so it is likely that more traffic may come to RUL because of this.
• Cabinet discussed PROP. Ask A Librarian FAQ support was #1 and will be done during the Spring semester. Another PROP proposal, "Just in Time" basic modules will be done at a later time.
• Media Booking System from SIRSI -- need to review and decide where to go next, such as expand to Music, Jazz Studies, and other formats e.g. CDs. Judy will look at implications for Access Services.
• RUTV Network -- coming along, looking at libraries as viewing areas. RUL Mediavision channels for faculty requests for class viewing of various videos. Website is rutv.rutgers.edu
• NB Computing Advisory Committee -- represented by Ryoko. Examining wireless technology, voice over Internet protocol, university portal, and enterprize-wide email. Need for the university to look at Courseware and hope to choose a single platform -- TEC supports WebCT, Continuous Educ/Distance Learning supports eCollege, and some departments are using Blackboard.

RLG SHARES Meeting -- Judy:

• Held 9/24 in NYC and is examining a new 5 year plan. Discussed netlending fee (agreed it should stay the same) and performance standards.
• No formal summary yet as there will be 3 other regional meetings in the US. Some of the concerns expressed were to simplify the process as much as possible, enable patron generating requests, licensing issues, having different ILL systems communicate with one another, balancing consortial, local and national priorities.
• Judy noted the statistic that RUL generates 25% of borrowing of all instituions -- mostly journals and a lot of medical. This is balanced by the fact that RUL is a net lender in NJ.

Real Time Reference -- Marty

• NB working group report was discussed and Natalie reported on Vale Reference Group discussions which may be looking into consortial purchasing of rt reference software.
• In the meantime, it was agreed that PSC will support a pilot real time reference service in the Spring semester, spearheaded by Marty and Natalie. Marty and Natalie will provide names of librarians to work on developing a pilot project, i.e. choice of software, parameters of the pilot, and assessment, to Jeanne who will then discuss membership in the pilot steering group with library directors.

iLINK -- Ann

• iLink is the next product from UNICORN geared towards the academic market (whereas iBISTRO is aimed at school and public libraries). The iLINK software is Z39.50 compliant and allows for broadcast searching (searching multiple databases at once that are both Z39.50 compliant and those that are non-compliant)
• iLINK at BYU was demonstrated (only academic site so far). We need to consider what to do soon as there will be no more enhancements made to Unicorn, only to the new iLINK product).

Agenda Setting -- Jeanne

• ELF has gone through -- how will public workstations and systems infrastructure be affected?
• We should annotate the PSC agenda, e.g. ILink (new SIRSI product/interface)
• Need to review leftover recommendations and goals.
• Look at customizable databases such as EBSCO and look at database use statistics (Ann will bring a copy to our meetings that can be passed around).