9/25/01
 

Jennifer gave a brief report on last week's Library Advisory Council meeting
 

Announcements:

Elaine Griffin is moving to 221 today

221 is undergoing a "sweeping" cleaning and rearrangement and encourages all departments that are moving to consider this an opportunity for a "fall housecleaning." 

Jo attended the United Way luncheon on behalf of the Libraries. One announcement noted that all who had contributed last year were already supporting the rescue and assistance efforts of September 11 through United Way support of the Red Cross and other organizations. Envelopes for donations will be sent directly to individuals. All Libraries staff will be eligible for those prizes offered by the University to United Way donors.
 

Divisional Reports:
 

User Services:

Jean McManus will be meeting with Cindy Bergman, Assoc. Dean of Arts and Letters, on the modest expansion of faculty document delivery. Carol Szambelan as also requested that Aerospace Engineering, located on Douglas, be added to the eligible faculty.

Performance Recognition nominations have been good. The date of the award ceremony is being reviewed.
 

Budget and Facilities Services:

ARL statistics report forms have arrived and will be distributed after the Self Study is completed. They are due Nov. 1 to ARL. The Preservation statistics are due Dec. 1.

Interviews are being scheduled for candidates for the current open positon in the unit (succeeding Eilene Franson)

Theresa is reviewing the budget timeline and priorities prior to bringing last year's to LEC.
 

Information Services and Access:
 

Aleph upgrade is still scheduled for October. Since Circulation can still operate on 12.2 during the upgrade we are not limited to break week only.

Eric Morgan has begun meeting with a number of people in the Libraries to discuss their priorities for his new department.

Sharon Neary is scheduled to start on October 1.
 

Resources and Collection Services

The Special Collections staff move is in process and they hope to have the offices in place and occupied by the end of this week.

The Division will be looking at adding bibliographic records for microforms and aggregator resources, such as EEBO and BNA Table of Contents records, following implementation of 14.2. Priorities will be established in conjunction with Cataloging, Collection Development, Reference, and Library Systems.

A Self Study is being worked on in German and Russian. Rob Kusmer and Kathy Blackstead will be working together to do the Libraries section since the reports will go to a single academic department.

NERL is welcoming the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford to the group.
 

MALC Directors Meeting Agenda

The MALC Directors Group will meet on September 27. Dan will chair 

the meeting, and the Aleph Working Group will also attend. The agenda 

includes a status report on the 14.2 implementation; discussion of "patron 

empowerment" issues, including the identification mechanisms necessary for 

this process; and the possibility of combining the four separate MALC 

catalogs into one. There are several issues involved in such a move, 

including issues of document delivery, "lock down" of special collections bibliographic records, and many others. 

Dan will talk briefly about SFX and MetaLib, two products from Ex 

Libris that facilitate access to electronic resources and cross-database 

searching. 

The MALC Directors meeting is to provide information to directors on current issues relating to Aleph and to seek their input on future directions, including the issues of one database versus four and implementation of SFX and MetaLib for MALC.

Self Study:

LEC discussed the mechanisms that can be used to bring the multiple self study documents currently under development into a single coherent statement. LEC will hold a special meeting for this purpose on Wednesday, October 3.