Minutes of March 28, 2002 Meeting

Present:

Grace Agnew, Jeanne Boyle, Natalie Borisovets, Tom Frusciano, Judy Gardner, Marty Kessleman, John Maxymuk, Ann Montanaro, Leslie Murtha, Mary Page (guest), Bob Sewell (recorder), Addie Tallau (guest), Myoung Wilson.

Excused:

Rebecca Gardner

1. AUL Report – Jeanne Boyle:

• New collaboration beginning between RU TV and the Libraries regarding library instructional programs
• ProQuest has purchased SoftLine the company that produced Ethnic Newswatch. The EN sales rep., Leslie Zipper, is now our ProQuest sales rep.
• RUCS announced availability of email through web interface
• Each month the Libraries report K-12 outreach activities to the Office of Continuous and Outreach. An online form the Libraries have developed an online form to facilitate the reporting of these activities. Look for an announcement soon.
• Ingenta training was well attended in New Brunswick . We are trying to work with Ingenta to improve interface and services.
• Sue Marsh from RLG will be here during the week of April 1 for Eureka training on the new interface. Sessions for Culture Materials and open discussion were cancelled because only a few people signed up.
• Budget Update. Reviewed what is currently know about the budget following the Govenor’s budget message. Bob Sewell describe the collections budget strategy for dealing with the cuts, including carrying over $500,000 in FY02 state funds into the next year.

2. E-journal Management Services – Mary Page

Mary Page presented a report by the Electronic Resources Integration Committee concerning products to manage e-journals. Demo from three vendors (TDNet, Serials Solutions, and Journal Web Cite) have been completed. Journal Web Cite www.journalwebcite.com is moderately priced and appears to be the best solution for RUL. Pending budget consideration, this product will be purchased.

3. Planning Committee Report on Realignment of Faculty for the DLI.

Addie Tallau shared with PSC a draft of the Planning Committee’s report “A New Framework for RUL Based on the DLI.” The report re-conceptualizes the Libraries Organization based on four broad functions: Information Services, Materials Services, Availability Services, and Structural Services. It categorizes current activities that can be classified in these categories and suggest what new activities that are need and what should be accomplished within a 3-5 year time frame. PSC will consider these list of tasks further at the next meeting.

4. SCORM – e-learning metadating standards – Grace Agnew

Grace Agnew reported SCORM on (Shared Content Object Reference Model), “a set of... technical... specifications” developed for “reuse of Web-based learning content across multiple environments and products.” That is, harvesting metadata for the extraction of informational elements in e-learning package and plopping them into another e-learning package. It is being developed with support from the Dept. of Defense which trains 2.2 million people every year and whose training programs are not integrated from service to service. SCORM has great potential for web-based education.

5. Library & Faculty Web-based Teaching

A wide-ranging discussion on how should librarians become collaborators with faculty in Web-based teaching. Reference was made to two articles one from CLIR Issues # 26 on the Libraries’ Role in Web-Based Teaching and “Can Libraried Find a New Home in Courseware in SyllabusWeb. Ideas suggested were:

• collaboration with the Teaching Excellence Centers to inform faculty using these about facilities how librarians can help and librarians can find out who is using TEC and approach them. The post-Lawrence future of TECs, however, was questioned.
• develop generic list of e-resources from the Libraries that could be plopped into Web-based models, such as links to Ask-A-Librarian, e-reserves, e-jounal lists, research guides, etc. Marty Kessleman, Judy Gardner, Jeanne Boyle, and Leslie Murtha will create a web page with this information.

6. Annoucements:

• New Brunswick librarians will begin “librarians-without-borders” outreach program. First experiment will be in Busch Student Center where 3 librarians will field reference questions and peddle information about the Libraries, April 8-Mary 7.
• Information Steering Group’ ACIC proposal have received $50,000 to purchase flat screen monitors for reference desks and lap tops.
• Real-time reference experiment slated for April 8- May 17. Using Real-time software for interactive Ask-A-Librarian sessions.
• Jeanne Boyle, the organizer of the March 18 Privacy in Cyberspace Conference, and Ann Montanaro, the moderator of a session, were acknowledge for their roles in the hugely successful conference.