Last Meeting: Minutes of the February 11, 2010 meeting were approved as distributed.
Special Agenda Items: (Reid): Discussion of Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian and the Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian job descriptions. Both position descriptions were revised and will be sent to Camilla Reid for final approval.
(Reid): Camilla Reid asked that everyone turn in their prioritized list of optional LibQUAL questions by February 22nd. In their last meeting, the Library Committee members said that they would like to see the optional questions geared towards student study space and information literacy.
Special Agenda Items: (Reid): Discussion of Acquisitions and Cataloging Librarian and the Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian job descriptions. Both position descriptions were revised and will be sent to Camilla Reid for final approval.
(Reid): Camilla Reid asked that everyone turn in their prioritized list of optional LibQUAL questions by February 22nd. In their last meeting, the Library Committee members said that they would like to see the optional questions geared towards student study space and information literacy.
Area Reports:
Media Service: (Ralph Herndon): No report.
Reference: (Camilla Reid): Reference Coordinator, Fay Verburg, hopes to come back to work part-time beginning February 22nd.
Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker): The March Library Instruction classes were assigned.
Camilla Baker met with Angela Bratton, a member of the Library Committee, and they decided on an approach to the ASU Faculty in regards to including ILIT1500 as part of the core curriculum. When presented to the Faculty, Plan A will be to include it as a 2-hour elective in Area B. Plan B will be to target specific departments, tailor the class to fit their needs, expand it to 3 hours and include it in Area F.
Special Collections: (John O'Shea): No report.
Technical Services: (Diane Black): No report.
Automation: (Jeff Heck): The SSL certification was a success. The SciFinder database is now available for students to access from home.
The wireless speaker system for the Library Instruction classroom has arrived and is being installed.
CMOS batteries for the InfoSquare and Reference computers have arrived. Once installed, the problem of the date/time resetting and users not being able to log on will be resolved.
Outreach: (Mellie Kerins): For Kickin’ it Old Skool, the Library submitted a decorated “A” for Homecoming Week.
Mellie submitted a few minor changes for the 2010-2011 Jaguar Handbook.
Electronic Resources: (LouAnn Blocker): Our representative from H.W. Wilson, Leonard DiSanto, visited February 16th. He wanted to draw our attention to the ReadSpeaker function on all full-text articles (indicated by a ‘volume’ icon). Users can listen to the text being read and can download the audio.
H.W. Wilson has a Cinema Images database that might be useful for film studies. It also has television images. Pricing will be sent for both Cinema Images and Art Full-text, of which we currently only have the retrospective.
If we were to subscribe to the electronic Chronicle of Higher Education, the site license would be $3780 (10% discount, regularly priced at $4200). We have requested a free trial. After cancellation, you cannot maintain access to the older content.
Government Documents: (Yadira Payne): UGA’s Depository has submitted a microfiche Needs and Offers list to our Depository so that we may help them fill gaps left from a fire. We reviewed the list and have identified over 20 drawers of microfiche that we will offer to Hallie Pritchett to take back with her after her site visit on Tuesday, February 23rd.
Jennifer Mansell, student assistant, has just completed the Reese Library Women’s Studies Resources from Government Documents pathfinder and is currently working on the Women in the Military Government Documents Resources from Reese Library pathfinder. Both should be completed in time for Women’s History Month in March. In addition, Gov Docs will have two Women’s History displays.
Circulation/Associate Director: (Camilla Reid): Camilla Reid suggested that Library Business Services be added to the Agenda, with Ginny Loveless reporting.
All publications (posters and tent-cards) for LibQUAL have been displayed all over campus. There will be a banner on the Library website, and a series of emails will be sent out to participants. The survey will run from March 8th through April 2nd. Dr. Sam Sullivan, VP for Academic Affairs, suggested to Camilla that to spread out the expenses for the Pilgrim Life Collection, we may need to not only break the project out into stages, but also to find some in-house temporary storage.
Marshall Abuwi, Reference Assistant, would be willing to add Sunday nights to his schedule to accommodate our shortage of part-time librarians.
Committee Reports: Library Committee: (Reid): Members of the Library Committee would like some library personnel to attend their next meeting to discuss the Library website.
Library Director Search Committee: (Heck): A few days have been reserved for potential candidate interviews. Application deadline is February 24th.
Information Technology Committee: (Heck): The committee is currently looking at various Email providers as a replacement for Pipeline.
Miscellaneous: (Payne): Yadira has received and viewed the free Women’s Studies DVD. Camilla Reid is currently reviewing it and we may present a viewing/screening near the end of March as a Women’s History Month event presented by Reese Library.
CSRA Library Association – Registration for the 1st conference will open in March. All information and forms will be made available on the newly designed and well received Ning (http://csra-libassoc.ning.com/).
Upon the editor’s request, Yadira has submitted a brief bilingual article titled “Borikén” for The Polyglot, Augusta State University’s Alpha Mu Gamma National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society publication.
Next Meeting: March 3rd, 10:00 a.m.
Reference: (Camilla Reid): Reference Coordinator, Fay Verburg, hopes to come back to work part-time beginning February 22nd.
Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker): The March Library Instruction classes were assigned.
Camilla Baker met with Angela Bratton, a member of the Library Committee, and they decided on an approach to the ASU Faculty in regards to including ILIT1500 as part of the core curriculum. When presented to the Faculty, Plan A will be to include it as a 2-hour elective in Area B. Plan B will be to target specific departments, tailor the class to fit their needs, expand it to 3 hours and include it in Area F.
Special Collections: (John O'Shea): No report.
Technical Services: (Diane Black): No report.
Automation: (Jeff Heck): The SSL certification was a success. The SciFinder database is now available for students to access from home.
The wireless speaker system for the Library Instruction classroom has arrived and is being installed.
CMOS batteries for the InfoSquare and Reference computers have arrived. Once installed, the problem of the date/time resetting and users not being able to log on will be resolved.
Outreach: (Mellie Kerins): For Kickin’ it Old Skool, the Library submitted a decorated “A” for Homecoming Week.
Mellie submitted a few minor changes for the 2010-2011 Jaguar Handbook.
Electronic Resources: (LouAnn Blocker): Our representative from H.W. Wilson, Leonard DiSanto, visited February 16th. He wanted to draw our attention to the ReadSpeaker function on all full-text articles (indicated by a ‘volume’ icon). Users can listen to the text being read and can download the audio.
H.W. Wilson has a Cinema Images database that might be useful for film studies. It also has television images. Pricing will be sent for both Cinema Images and Art Full-text, of which we currently only have the retrospective.
If we were to subscribe to the electronic Chronicle of Higher Education, the site license would be $3780 (10% discount, regularly priced at $4200). We have requested a free trial. After cancellation, you cannot maintain access to the older content.
Government Documents: (Yadira Payne): UGA’s Depository has submitted a microfiche Needs and Offers list to our Depository so that we may help them fill gaps left from a fire. We reviewed the list and have identified over 20 drawers of microfiche that we will offer to Hallie Pritchett to take back with her after her site visit on Tuesday, February 23rd.
Jennifer Mansell, student assistant, has just completed the Reese Library Women’s Studies Resources from Government Documents pathfinder and is currently working on the Women in the Military Government Documents Resources from Reese Library pathfinder. Both should be completed in time for Women’s History Month in March. In addition, Gov Docs will have two Women’s History displays.
Circulation/Associate Director: (Camilla Reid): Camilla Reid suggested that Library Business Services be added to the Agenda, with Ginny Loveless reporting.
All publications (posters and tent-cards) for LibQUAL have been displayed all over campus. There will be a banner on the Library website, and a series of emails will be sent out to participants. The survey will run from March 8th through April 2nd. Dr. Sam Sullivan, VP for Academic Affairs, suggested to Camilla that to spread out the expenses for the Pilgrim Life Collection, we may need to not only break the project out into stages, but also to find some in-house temporary storage.
Marshall Abuwi, Reference Assistant, would be willing to add Sunday nights to his schedule to accommodate our shortage of part-time librarians.
Committee Reports: Library Committee: (Reid): Members of the Library Committee would like some library personnel to attend their next meeting to discuss the Library website.
Library Director Search Committee: (Heck): A few days have been reserved for potential candidate interviews. Application deadline is February 24th.
Information Technology Committee: (Heck): The committee is currently looking at various Email providers as a replacement for Pipeline.
Miscellaneous: (Payne): Yadira has received and viewed the free Women’s Studies DVD. Camilla Reid is currently reviewing it and we may present a viewing/screening near the end of March as a Women’s History Month event presented by Reese Library.
CSRA Library Association – Registration for the 1st conference will open in March. All information and forms will be made available on the newly designed and well received Ning (http://csra-libassoc.ning.com/).
Upon the editor’s request, Yadira has submitted a brief bilingual article titled “Borikén” for The Polyglot, Augusta State University’s Alpha Mu Gamma National Collegiate Foreign Language Honor Society publication.
Next Meeting: March 3rd, 10:00 a.m.