Minutes of February 14, 2005 Meeting

Present:: K. Au, S. Bartz, K. Hartman (recorder), T. Haynes (Camden) S. McDonald, L. Mullen, K. Wenk

Content Group Report (T. Haynes)

Indexes and databases the need revisions have been allocated; forthcoming indexes-FDC Reports, EIU, and Official Document System of the United Nations
Subject guides procedures and policies were finalized and posted and Sam will use the new citation specs in the guides.
Au is publicizing the new specs and will issue 9-month remainder to guide owners; Laura will encourage her LSM colleagues to update their subject guides and Au and Sam will provide help if needed.
New guides in process include New Jerseyana, European Studies, and Geology; updates in process-Art, English Literature, East Asian Studies.
Journal databases such as Kluwer will be added to the database list.
PSC has recommended that several gray databases (acquired by Rutgers units outside the Libraries) be cataloged in IRIS and listed on the RUL website. The databases are Hein Online and a suite of databases accessible at SMRL.
Career guide needs a new compiler.
WAC-C meets again on 2/18/2005.

BookRoom rolled out with some minor hiccups. Release schedules for updates, e.g., printing out a week, have been set-up.

IPAC (Stephanie)-The Committee's chair has resigned and the group is meeting on Thursday to address this.
Instructional Services Committee (Theo)-Roll-out plan for Searchpath has been set. It will be made public on 2/21. Libutti has developed an assessment plan for the tutorial.
Systems (Sam and Au)-Systems now has a secure server; At some future time, Ask A Librarian and Pin requests may migrate to LDAP. In the long-term Book Room, Mediavision and Net ID may also move. E-Z Proxy rollout was successful; some small changes have to be made to FAQ's. The old proxy server will be retired sometime in August-publicity re: this will begin after Spring Break.

Goals were reviewed in terms of upcoming tasks. Group was reminded to conduct usability studies and contact Au for more cards. Karen will email the questionnaire again.
Au discussed WAC presence on RUL committees. He requested that the group let him know on what committees they serve.
WAC will continue to investigate other institution's best practices.

Sam noted that JAKE is dead. He is investigating another Simon Fraser University product, CUFTS, and will take this to WAC-C.

Next meeting: March 14, 2005