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Present: Baker, Black, Bryant, Heck, Kerins, Nelson, O’Shea,
Payne, Reid, Verburg
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Next Meeting: November 14, 2007,
2:00-3:30 p.m.
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Leader:
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Payne
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Leader: Verburg
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Recorder:
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Verburg
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Recorder: Baker
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Observer:
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Baker
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Observer: Black
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Last Meeting: Minutes of October 3, 2007 were approved with
corrections.
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Special Agenda Item: Camilla Reid has almost completed the Library
Unit Plan in the new format.
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Area Reports:
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Media Services: (Rose Axton)
No report.
Reference: (Fay Verburg)
Fay discussed a problem with a community patron who habitually asks for more
than the two-hour allotment on the community computers in reference.
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Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker)
There are remaining classes to teach in November. Dr. Sullivan has approved
our submission of a library course proposal. The entire library faculty will
constitute the curriculum committee.
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Special Collections: (John O'Shea)
No report.
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Technical Services: (Diane Black)
Carolyn Turner has completed 70% of the Martha Neely Collection (over 300
items). Departmental orders are coming in slowly but surely. Maria Jesus
Zevallos is the new student assistant in Serials. Diane will contact Dr.
Busch in Chemistry about additional weeding. Diane inquired about the status
of the surplus furniture in Technical Services. She is researching the
possibility of implementing electronic book plates.
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Automation: (Jeff Heck)
LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is still under configuration. We are
considering joining the LOCKSS Alliance. Some journals in the Department of
English and Foreign Languages have been moved to electronic subscriptions
which in turn gives us access to additional titles that will benefit other
academic departments. Jeff will be contacting Emory about the digital
repository program. Please review the revised library web pages in your area.
GALILEO has beta versions of its new search interfaces available for review
from the GALILEO home page (e.g. GALILEO Scholar, GALILEO Teen, etc.). Jeff
commented on sessions he attended at COMO.
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Outreach: (Mellie Kerins)
The Georgia Archives Month program will be Tuesday, October 30 at 2:30 p.m.
in University Hall 170. The display board for the event has been moved to
University Hall. Plans are continuing for the Rape Crisis fundraiser. The
library will host a photograph exhibit by author and photographer Robert
Arnett called “India Unveiled” in the new gallery space on the
second floor of the library.
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Electronic Resources: (Martha Bryant)
Martha has finished updating Serials Solutions with titles we are now
receiving online from EBSCO. She is working on getting pricing information
for the American Chemical Society journals archives for Chad Stevens.
Leonard DiSanto is setting up a free trial of Art Abstracts with Full Text
and will also be sending pricing information. Martha has contacted Debbie van
Tuyll about arranging for another trial of 19th Century U. S. Newspapers.
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Government Documents: (Yadira Payne)
Yadira is working on the biennial survey for Government Documents. She
continues to remove items from the needs and offers shelf, to clean up catalog
records, and to weed superseded items. She attended several interesting
sessions at COMO and was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the GLA Government
Documents Interest Group. She will be on the ballot as Vice-Chair for the
same group. Drexel University featured Yadira (an alumna of the university)
during Hispanic Heritage Month. Yadira is working on the “Let’s
Talk About It” grant from ALA.
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Circulation/Associate Director: (Camilla Reid)
Jennifer Boone is the new Library Assistant III in Circulation and Mike
Wallace will begin on November 5 as the Library Assistant II in that
department. Mike is currently training Albert Clark as the new student
security guard. Fay mentioned that Camilla Reid was honored at the campus Phi
Kappa Phi meeting with the local chapter’s President’s Award.
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Director: (Bill Nelson)
The campus accreditation visit for the B.A. in Social Work program is
scheduled for November 12. Camilla Reid, Camilla Baker, and Dr. Nelson will
lead a tour of the library and give a presentation highlighting library
resources for the group.
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Committee Reports: Dr. Nelson is chairing the Student Technology
Fee (STF) Committee. Seventy-five STF proposals have been received and are
being converted to pdf format for posting on the STF webpage. The committee
will meet again on November 1.
The Library Promotion and Tenure Committee (Diane Black, Chair; John
O’Shea; and Fay Verburg) met and are reviewing the candidates’
dossiers.
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Miscellaneous: Carol Waggoner-Angleton and Amy Geisen won second
place for their juried paper about “trading places” at the COMO conference. It is likely that this paper will be published in the Georgia Library Quarterly.
Another COMO presentation, “Creating ‘Family Space’ in the
Library: An Aid to Student Retention and Success,” will be submitted to
several library journals for possible publication. Camilla Reid, Camilla Baker, and Michelle DeLoach are the lead authors and Mellie Kerins and Dar Scarff are
contributing authors.
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Next Meeting: November 14, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.
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