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CUWL Reference Coordinators’ Committee Teleconference Minutes
CUWL Reference Coordinators’ Committee Teleconference
Minutes
Attendees:
UW-Colleges
Marc
Boucher
UW-Eau Claire Mimi
King
UW-Green Bay Anne
Kasuboski
UW-La Crosse Randy
Hoelzen
UW-Madison
Steve
Frye
UW-Milwaukee Linda Kopecky
UW-Oshkosh
Sarah
Neises (Ad Hoc Secretary)
UW-Parkside
Cynthia Bryan
UW-Platteville John Leonard Berg
UW-River Falls Valerie Malzacher (Chair)
UW-Stout
Jana Reeg Steidinger
UW-Superior
Ella
Cross
UW-Whitewater Barbara Bren
UW System Admin Lorie Docken
UW System Admin Paul Moriarty
Absent:
UW-Stevens Point Patti Becker
The meeting was called to order at approximately
- Sarah Neises was appointed to take minutes.
- Janna Reeg Steidinger moved to
approve the minutes of the
March 30, 2004 joint CDC/RCC meeting. John Berg seconded the motion. Minutes were approved. - Shared Tutorials
- Valerie Malzacher reviewed the summary of the April 2004 report of the Tutorial Subcommittee. The summary report was distributed to the RCC via e-mail.
- General Discussion
i. General sentiment was that people would like to share tutorials/scripts. Libraries could benefit from tutorials/scripts others have developed if they can be customized to individual campuses. There was a discussion about the types of tutorials various campuses wanted or have already developed.
ii. Discussion took place regarding the CUWL RCC D2L site and its demise. Ann Kasuboski updated the group on discussions of the web committee. She reported that Tom Murray is working on a new site that will allow self-submittal of materials using PHP bulletin board scripting. Until the site is ready, tutorials/scripts can be submitted to the CUWL RCC e-mail list and Valerie will keep the list organized so it can be posted in a group space when a site is available.
- Follow-up from March 30 Joint CDC/RCC meeting
- RCC will evaluate the following reference sources:
i. X-Refer: Jana Reeg Steidinger and Mimi King
ii.
iii. New York Times Historical Newspapers: Cynthia Bryan and Linda Kopecky.
- CINAHL Search Interfaces
i. Valerie Malzacher reported that there is some uncertainty about the future of CINAHL and available interfaces. Ebsco may be the only interface possibility in the future.
ii. There are some outstanding questions about the full text Proquest and Ovid nursing collections. Lorie Docken will ask John Jax of the CDC to work with Mimi King, Jan Bogstad and Roni Carey to analyze full text content options. The deadline for the group is July 30th. The report will be posted on the CUWL RCC e-mail list.
- Evaluate Ebsco search interface for Biological Abstracts
i. Lorie Docken will request a trial of Biological Abstracts via Ebsco for the entire system.
ii. Steve Frye, Ann Kasuboski, and Ella Cross will evaluate the Ebsco Biological Abstracts interface. In addition, Steve Frye will ask a librarian from Steenbock Library to provide their feedback, as they are heavy users of Biological Abstracts.
iii. The deadline for the evaluation is July 30th. The results of the evaluation will be sent to the CUWL RCC e-mail list.
- Evaluation procedures
i. RCC members evaluating products will base their evaluation criteria on the CDC form that was used in March 2004.
ii. Lorie Docken volunteered to get pricing information that will assist with evaluation.
iii.
The deadline for the evaluations of X-Refer,
iv. The deadline is July 30th for the analysis of the nursing full text options.
v. The deadline is July 30th for the evaluation of the Ebsco Biological Abstracts interface.
- SFX/Metalib Implementation
- Brief discussion of how various UW libraries are implementing SFX and planning for Metalib. It was decided that RCC members will use the Metalib e-mail list for distributing URLs for implementation pages and for discussion. Paul Moriarty said he would add RCC members to this e-mail list if they were not on it. [Note: This has been done]
- Roundtable Discussions
- Time expired before discussions could take place. Topics will be deferred until the next meeting.
- Agenda item number eight was moved up: Topics for discussion at future RCC meetings. Future topics include:
i. Scheduling software.
ii. Specialized print indexes – what are people doing with them?
iii. How can the LibQual tool help us in evaluating Reference service or can it?
- If there are other ideas for roundtable discussion, please send them to Valerie Malzacher.
i. Ideas submitted via email post-teleconference by John Berg are:
1. “How to keep Reference Collections up-to-date and a vital resource in higher education.”
2. “What is the impact of Distance Education on Reference Service?”
3. “Is there a role for Reference in new student orientation session or are we limited to requested class BI's?”
4. Marketing. “How can we invite and bring students into the library. Are we making thing too convenient? Several years ago we started an e-reserves service which significantly reduced copier revenues and gate counts. Is this what we want?”
5. MLA Bibliography. “This is an essential resource used by all of us, including the Colleges, why can't we get a group rate on this common title? The reason for my interest is that Platteville and Stout are the only two campuses NOT having electronic access to MLA. (At least according to my survey of library websites.)”
- Election of Chair and Secretary/Chair-elect for 2004-2005
- Valerie Malzacher nominated Jana Reeg Steidinger as Chair.
- Valerie Malzacher nominated Linda Kopecky as Secretary/Chair-elect.
- Both nominations were accepted by the nominees. The nominees were approved by the group and elected as officers.
The meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
Sarah Neises