Academic Programs -- H/SS

01.21.2005 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Updates Kay Kane
1. Sign up for the Performance Review sessions.
2. The memorial service for Bob Jevney is this Friday at 4:00 in the Campus Club, Coffman Union.
2. Julia Kiple, IADS
1. Chris Rose is working with intercampus lending.
2. Matt Bower says graduate students will now have unlimited renewals for up to a year, undergraduates for six months.
3. On 1/20 they started a new cycle of measuring the stacks, measuring linear feet. Results due end of March.
4. Pilot project to improve turnaround time on shelving starting.
5. Student training is being improved.
6. There will be a cleaning project in Wils per in summer.
7. IADS is revising their webpage.
3. Marcia Pankake, HSS
1. She met with 16 French and English department candidates and they were very impressed with the assignment calculator, RQS, and CourseLib.
4. Mary Shoenborn, Access Services Council
1. Statement of Intent�Access Services provides leadership through innovate solutions that make accessible the breadth and depth of information and materials necessary to advance University scholarship and resources.
2. Creation of two working groups on intercampus lending/borrowing chaired by Cherie Weston/Charles Spetland.
3. Barb Stelmasik is requesting feedback on Technical Services external communication tool �10 Cents.�
4. The council is revisiting the appropriate use policy.
5. Aleph 16.02 is on schedule, training continues. Check schedule on SDT website.
6. Future topics include food/drink policy, items not found on shelf, the maroon cleaning standard.
7. Chris Rose is working with intercampus lending.
5. Caroline Crouse, Info Commons
1. Handouts with IC statistics were passed out.
2. Hours are 12-12 Sunday, 9-12 Mon-Thursday, 9-6 Friday.
3. They will conduct surveys and focus groups.
6. Kate McCready, Mellon Grant.
1. She will work on the Mellon grant 50% time. Melissa Kalpin Prescott will manage Libdata. Information about the grant is at www.lib.umn./edu/about/mellon./li>
7. Goals
1. AP level goals are not done yet. They will be ready by the Feb 1st.
8. Porn Policy
1. Call the police only if child porn is being viewed. It is also illegal for children under 18 to view pronography. If you are uncomfortable you can ask them to move to the computer with the privacy screen in the basement or ask a security monitor to ask them to move.
9. Judy Wells, Collections
1. We will ask for a signifigant amount for collections in the compact. Dream big! Judy handed out a wish list and the current salvage report. Send her comments.
2. ILL reports are on the CDM website. Use them to see if there are things you want to buy, spot trends, etc.
10. CIC news
1. CIC jointly bought 1000 Wiley Springer journals and all will have access. No ILL fees will apply.
2. Google Scholar will digitize 6 million volumes of the University of Michigan library in six years. Other participating institutions are Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and NY Public.
11. Other News
1. The School of Journalism is downsizing its library and wants us to take on that role. They are going to give us $5,000. We will hire a librarian to cover the subjects Communications, Linguistics, Cinema, Mass Communication, Journalism, newspapers and comparative and cultural literature.

Participants

11.16.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Updates, Kay Kane
1. Music scores will be catalogued.
2. A selection of government documents will have their ALEPH records cleaned up.
3. Don Johnson contracted malaria in India. He has been released from the hospital and will be back this weekend.
4. The new AUL, Karen Williams, will be attending the December 10th HSS meeting
5. HSS meetings will be on 3rd Fridays of each month
6. Please take a look at the World Biography Index.
2. Judy Wells, Collections Issues
1. A handout of new database resources was passed out.
2. A small planning group is investigating emergency response planning for the libraries.
3. Moving materials from Wilson to MLAC. We have moved 160K and will have to do this again in 2006. The group is working on a plan and Peggy Johnson is looking at the issues.
4. CLR list of nominations was handed out. No nominations from the U of M this year. Judy will send the ballot to the listserv.
5. The next collections meeting is cancelled, and will meet 11/30 instead.
3. Cherie Weston demonstrated the new ILL software ILIAD, which went live 11/8. A chart showed ILL requests have increased, in the past year there was a 52% increase. Video requests used to be 30 a year, are now 30 a week. The first day of ILLIAD had over 500 people register.
4. Lynne Beck gave an update on the Unravel sessions. Unravel 1 has had a 180% increase in attendance, and Unravel 2 a 124% increase. More instructors are requiring the classes now. They are looking for instructors and rovers.
5. Vicki Glasgow and Virginia Gunville Bach reported on the Virtual Reference Conference. There has been a 40% decrease in questions at the reference desk, according to ARL statistics. The Virtual Evaluation Toolkit from the University of Washington was featured.
6. Van Houlson reported that six graduate student focus groups across the system are being held.
7. Art in Wilson Library�The 4th floor may be the gallery for graduate and undergraduate art. A graduate student will curate.
8. MNCAT has a new server from OIT.
9. The next two Monday�s we will host Assistant Map Librarian candidates.

Participants

12.10.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Update
• Kay Kane introduced our new AUL Karen Williams, formerly of the University of Arizona. Karen filled the group in on her background. Introductions ensued. Ms. Williams asked for input on what is positive in the libraries, what needs attention, and what do we need from her.
• Kate McCready demonstrated Libdata and PageScribe improvements. Please mark your core resources in your pages.
• On 12/16, there will be an open house from 11-1 in Anderson 120 to give input on AP goals and themes.
• HSS goals will be formulated in January, unit goals in February.

Participants

05.14.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 12:00

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Update, Kay Kane:
1. Kay Kane gave an HSS AP 2004 Year in Review report. It is housed on the AP HSS web site at http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/AP/HumanitiesAndSocialSciences under �Reports and Documents.�
2. Judy Wells reviewed Net Library purchases.
3. Dan Donnelly will be leading a new University wide initiative on copyright.
4. $500K was awarded to the library and will cover raises this year. $800K has been requested to cover collections inflation.
5. We will have practicum programs with St. Kate�s library school next year. They will be 120 hours.
6. Jerilyn Veldof showed the group the current floor plan from the Information Commons Task Force.
7. Lisa Pillow addressed the transfer of reference materials in relation to the Info Commons.
8. John Butler reviewed the projects in the Digital Development Lab.
9. Kate McCready urged us to update our RQS pages before fall, as they will be pushed to students through the UM web portal.
10. KC also showed a draft new Lumina page.
11. The release of the new version of ALEPH and the training has been delayed until December �04.
12. HANDOUTS
2. 1. Digital Lab projects (John Butler)

04.01.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 12:00

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Update, Kay Kane:
1. An AUL search committee has been formed.
2. St. Paul has chosen HEALS as its acronym. Human Ecology and Agricultural Life Sciences.
3. Open Public Access computers will have a 5 minute limit.
4. Everyone needs to monitor computer use. It is appropriate to ask people for their student Ids and if they are not students ask them to leave.
5. Caroline Lilyard reported on the Liaison groups work thus far and presented a draft for comment.
6. Jerilyn Veldof gave an Information Commons update.
2. The rest of the meeting was spent brainstorming Academic Program Division Planning Theme priorities. The notes will be distributed separately.

1. Campus Services & Collaboration (how we connect on campus)
2. Library as an intellectual center.
3. Outreach & External Communities (strategic outreach).
4. Marketing and branding.
5. Leveraging resources to meet needs.

LLC is looking at how we communicate as a system and how we can make that better. Wendy Lougee wants each of us to do a better job of reporting what we are doing. Send Kay ideas on the compact, what we should be communicating to other units, and how often? In the next month, review your goals. Look at where you are at and write a report. Send it to your supervisor. Supervisors will be meeting. Due before spring semester starts.

Future Meetings
11/21/03 ~ 9:30-11:00 ~ Room Anderson 120 ~HSS Meeting ~ Kay Kane



Malaika Grant Kimberly Kowal Lynne Skupenko Lisa Pillow Amy West Marcia Pankake Vicki Glasgow Judy Wells Julie Wallace Joon Mornes

Laura Dale Bischoff Lynn Beck Richard Kelly Dan Donnelly Susan Gangl Barb Kautz Celia Hales Mabry Laurel Haycock Jerilyn Veldof Ken McCready

Gordon Anderson Jody Gray Virginia Bach Tim Maloney Nancy Herther Eugene Leadon Dennis Lien Mary Pat Winters

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02.27.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 12:00

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Update, Kay Kane:
1. Today is Brent Allison's last day as Interim head of the James Ford Bell library, and Kimberly Kowal's last day in the Map Library.
2. The information Literacy Librarian search committee has formed and is reviewing applications.
3. The InfoPoint Librarian position is also reviewing applications and will be interviewing soon. Statistics are up dramatically.
4. Kay reviewed some of the LibQual Survey comments. The library will be conducting faculty focus groups and all AP program directors will be attending.
5. Next Fall semester the Writing Center will serve both graduates and undergraduates. They will help with content management, ideas, organization, etc. but not copy editing.
6. Jerilyn, Lisa and Kay will meet 2/27 about the InfoCommons and making decisions about the details. It will be on the first floor of Wilson and a designer will be hired. The Info Commons will have an instructional component.
7. If you need to rent a laptop from ACDS Kay will pay the rental fee. It is $10 a day.
8. Peggy Johnson instructs us not to give change at the desk, and recommends we give out courtesy cards instead.
9. The next Library Assembly is March 4th. Please attend.
2. The rest of the meeting was spent brainstorming Academic Program Division Planning Theme priorities. The notes will be distributed separately.

02.13.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 12:00

Team Leader: Kay Kane

Notes Taker: Caroline Lilyard

Participants

1. Administrative Update



• 1. Jerilyn Veldof presented a timeline of developments related to the Info Commons project from the beginning when the "Investing in the Future" document was released and the Undergraduate Initiatives Council task force was formed. Undergraduates were surveyed and a few key themes emerged; the need for community and space in the library as a bridge between physical and electronic space--99%, and the need for a "One Stop" concept--81%.The Info Commons initiative received funding for 35 computers, and an architect from campus drew up floor plans for our review. A visible result is expected by Fall of 2004.
  
  
• Alternative floor plans for the Info Commons drawn by the architect were passed out. Discussion ensued. Notes from this discussion were distributed separately.

1. Floor plans for Info Commons (Kay Kane)

Participants

01.23.2004 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 12:00

Team Leader:
Kay Kane
Note Taker:
Caroline Lilyard
Participants

Agenda Topics Discussed, Decisions Made

1. Administrative Updates, Kay:
• Kay thanked Joon Mornes, Joanne Twit, Virginia Gunville Bach, and Chris Schlief for their assistance with the holiday party in the Architecture Library.
• The AP Division planning themes were handed out. They are meant to be large in scope. Send comments to Kay.
• It�s time for the midyear review. Timeline for goals:
  -Review last year�s goals
  -Track your progress
  -Write a brief report
  -Submit report to your supervisor by Wednesday 1/28
  -Supervisors should submit these reports to Kay by 2/28
  -Everyone should take one goal and rewrite it in SMART format. Contact Caroline for workshop materials.
  -The deadline for unit/branch goals is March 19^th.
• Budget update. Cathy Tweedie reviewed lapsed salary figures. By June 30^th the Libraries will have a surplus. A call for project proposals is requested. Special Project Proposals for one time funds must be for 5K or more. The project can extend beyond 6/30. Send project proposals to Kay or Caroline by noon 1/29. Kay will send out the project template to the HSS group.
2. Judy Wells, Collections Issues
• CDM was asked by MAC to list HSS collections priorities. A handout of HSS Electronic Resources Projects was passed out. Some of the projects listed included:
  -Digital Evans: Early American Imprints. Series 1. Evans (1639-1800)
  -History E books
  -Wright American Fiction
  -CIS U.S. Executive Branch Documents
  -NetLibrary
• Cataloging projects. Let Judy know of other project ideas.
• Handout of HSS Report on New Money received in 2003/04 passed out.
• A metrics study was done to determine graduate credit hours in relation to fund allocation. Due to the results of this inquiry, some funds received additional money:
  -Communication Disorders 3k
  -Public Affairs 7k
  -Human Resources 3k
  -HealthCare Management 1k
  -Architecture 10k
  -Landscape Architecture 3k
  -Education 17,300 k
• A paralegal has been hired in the Office of the General Council, which should help facilitate our licenses being processed more quickly.
• Handout of Collection Development and Management Themes distributed.
3. Cecelia Genereux and Stacie Traill from MAC demonstrated, provided information and answered questions about the Single vs Separate Records issue e.g. having one record for print and one record for all online versions in MNCAT.
4. Jerrie Beyer and Chris Rose demonstrated the ALEPH Course Reserve system. The Course Reseve Catalog has been online and linked in MNCAT as of 1/20.
5. Mobile Librarian Update. Laurel Haycock reviewed the progress on the College of Education & Human Development mobile librarian project. Because the department is housed in several buildings across campus, the department felt it would be more useful for the team to respond to requests individually. The college, in consultation with the library team, produced a webpage for inclusion on their departmental website, including links to Ask Us!, the reference desk and library workshops, as well as a way to schedule appointments with librarians. The team is Laurel Haycock, Vicki Glasgow, Virginia Gunville Bach, Lynne Beck and Linda Eells.
6. Kay�Announcements and wrap up:
• If you know of possible candidates for AUL, Information Literacy and InfoPoint Librarian jobs posted recently, please send the information to Kay or Marilyn McClaskey.
• Jerilyn, Kay and Sharon Folk are writing procedures for faculty to use Wilson Room 2 and 201A on the second floor for seminars and classes on an occasional basis. If you book either room for faculty, you will be responsible for maintenance of the room. The students can help but you will need to make arrangements with Mary Pat. Rooms will be booked using the SDT calendar. There are no computers or projection equipment setup in either space.
• Jerilyn reported that an architect from the U Planning Office, Karen Baylor, is studying space issues in Wilson for the information commons project.
• Tim Maloney reported on a "Week in the life of a branch librarian"
• Amy West has set up an AP HSS blog at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/staff/aphss/

1. E-Resource Priorities for Cataloging (Judy Wells)
2. Humanities and Social Sciences Report on New Money received in 2003/04 (Judy Wells)
3. Collection Development and Management Planning Themes (Judy Wells)
4. Mobile Librarian for Education Pilot Project (Laurel Haycock)

Key Dates, Future Meetings

Participants

11.21.2003 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

TEAM LEADER:
Kay Kane
Note Taker:
Vicki Glasgow
Participants:

Agenda Topics Discussed

1. Administrative Updates from Kay Kane:
• H/SS Year in Review: Kay passed around copies of the "H/SS Year in Review." She asked that everyone take a look at the document and let Kay know if there are any corrections. It was noted that we need to add a section on specialized Reference.
• Budget: The LLC met as a group to distribute the funds. There is a detailed budget report on the L: drive for anyone who would like more information. Specific HSS highlights from the budget include:
• Undergraduate Initiatives were funded. VP/Provost Maziar is very interested in the project and has asked Wendy for regular updates on our progress.
• Two positions were funded�an Information Literacy Librarian (continuing) and an InfoPoint Librarian (one year)
• $50,000 was allotted to the collections budget.
• Room 2 will be converted to a dual purpose (meeting and instruction) room but there was no money allotted.
• Just in Time was funded.
• We did get $5,000 to hire student staff to help update LibData pages. Kate will oversee this project.
2. Just in Time: Jerilyn discussed the project in more detail. It will include:
• Training shelvers to provide help for students in the stacks. There will be id badges signage on carts etc.
• There will be "Target-type" red help phones installed on upper levels of Wilson. These phones will automatically connect to the Reference Desk. During the first phase the phones will only be operational during reference hours.
• Student "Peer Information Counselors" will be trained and deployed to tutoring centers in the residence halls.
3. Information Commons: A space manager consultant has been hired to look at various alternative locations for the Information Commons.
4. Travel: We will continue with our current process of limited funding for professional travel. $500 per meeting is still the limit. Travel requests have been signed and will be taken to the Business Office.
5. LOEX: Staff have not put in requests for LOEX yet. These requests need to be submitted.
6. Computer Requests�Computer replacement requests was a merged process this year. The goal is to replace computers under 500 MHz. There were a total of 35 requests for HSS (6 public workstations 29 staff workstations). Kay routed a list of staff who are scheduled to receive a new computer.
7. Security - We will be getting increased security monitor coverage on weekends. There will be an additional monitor on the lower floor on Saturday and 2 additional monitors on Sunday. We currently have a serious problem with groups of unaffiliated users in the evening who are using an affiliated student�s id and password to access our restricted use computers. We now have a policy that prohibits the use of another student�s id. We have also received requests for computers with 5-minute limits. Kay is thinking about designating some 5 minute-limit computers throughout Wilson. Feedback if a security monitor is not performing up to expectations should be forwarded to Joan Mouchet.
8. Academic Programs Website: Thanks largely to Amy West it is up and running at: http://staff.lib.umn.edu/ap/ Everyone is encouraged to check it out. If there are any links that are missing send a URL to Amy. We will need to revisit our goals as listed on the website.
9. Collections Report from Judy Wells: Judy updated the group on several collections-related issues :
• Rand Corporation Reports: Our blanket order for Rand Reports used to cost $450. This year it costs $1200. But users can go to the website and print off various reports. We will have a trial of their "Policy File." Mary Schoenborn is setting this up. Users could go to this to find Rand Reports as well as reports of other think tanks. We are trying to decide if we should continue the blanket order.
• Compact Money: We asked for collections money to support President Bruiniks� initiatives. We asked for $70,000.
• Purchase of Books Requested on Interlibrary Loan: We have noticed there has been an increase in interlibrary loan requests. We want to evaluate these requests to see if there are areas or titles where we need to buy more books. We asked ILL for reports on their activities. 3000 books were requested during the 1^st Quarter of 2003; 4000 books in the 2^nd Quarter; and 3500 books in the 3^rd Quarter (summer). ILL requests have gone up 49%. We have requested $30,000 to buy books that have been requested on interlibrary loan.
• Digital Evans: The cost is $74,000 for 4 years. Most of the CIC Libraries have purchased it. It covers everything published in the U.S. between 1600 and 1800 in full-text.
• E-Dissertations: Proquest is talking with the University about submitting dissertations in E-format. Then we could buy ownership of our own past dissertations for $50,000. We would also pay $5,000 per year for the search platform.
• Other Issues:
• What to do with E-Text CD-ROM�s
• New book shelf
• Space concerns; how will collection issues impact space
• Themes and goals
• Nature (had been costing $9,000/year but will now cost $19,000 per year. CIC Libraries have decided to boycott Nature.
• Selectors should have spent at least half of their discretionary funds by the end of December.
10. Malaika Grant reported on a "Week in the Life of a Reference/Subject Librarian."

Key Dates, Future Meetings
12/12/03 - 120 B/C Anderson - 9:00: 11:30

Participants

10.24.2003 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

Team Leader:
Kay Kane
Notes Taker
Caroline Lilyard
Participants

Agenda Topics Discussed

1. Administrative Update
• The Friends of the Library event with Garrison Keillor on October 20 was attended by approximately 400 people!
• New Staff--Lisa Pillow will be the new head of IRIS and will start on November 24th. See her vita at http://staff.lib.umn.edu/ateam/HRCandidateSearchesMain.html
• There will be two new resident librarians starting in Mid-November, Jody Gray and Kate Flanagan. Jody will start with a six month rotation in HSS. Kate will do a six month rotation in Vet Med.
• Kay discussed the HSS brainstorming session on projects to put forth and explained the procedure the coordinating group used to evaluate and rate project proposals. The Summary of Project Requests is on the L Drive.
2. SFX Demonstration, John Butler
• The link resolving software SFX will eliminate the need to look in multiple venues for full text articles from a database citation. The link resolver accepts metadata from the source, resolves against local database of targets and business rules, and builds context sensistive URLs and presents them to the user. Sources commonly include abstracting and indexing databases, E-Journals, OPACS, E-print archives, digital content repositories and any other databases that are OpenURL enabled. Targets are e-journals, OPACs, union catalogs, citations databases. A&I databases. patent databases, enyclopedias, internet bookstores, book review sources, ILL/doc del, reference services, local expert databases, FAQs and other "extended services." Implementation will be gradual with first rollout planned for next week.
3. Week in the life of a Subject Librarian, starring Rafael Tarrago. Rafael reviewed his schedule for a week, which included typical duties such as vendor negotiations, catalog reviewing, meetings with faculty, book ordering, teaching, collections meetings, gift reviewing, and so forth.
4. MNCAT loan status report by Melissa Prescott. Users were tested and it was discovered that users do not generally understand what "regular loan" or "circulating" mean.
5. Julie Wallace reported the multiple Duluth entries for serial holdings were being fixed by MAC staff. If you find a problem title, forward it to the FIX IT address. Also, MAC is looking at having separate catalog listings for online versions of monographs.
6. Hours are due to Steve Koehler by October 31^st.
7. Send ARL statistics sheets to Caroline Lilyard or Kay Kane.

Handouts:

• Project ideas for one time and ongoing money (Kay Kane)

Key Dates, Future Meetings
11/21/03 > 9:30-11:30 > 120 B/C Anderson > Kay Kane

Tasks/Action Items

• 10/31/03 - Hours due to Steve Koehler
• 10/31/03 - Equipment requests due to unit supervisors
• 11/14/03 - Unit equipment requests due to Kay and Caroline
• ASAP - Send ARL stats for analysis to Caroline or Kay

Participants

10.10.2003 ~ 120 B/C Anderson ~ 9:30 - 11:30

Team Leader:
Kay Kane
Notes Taker
Caroline Lilyard
Participants

Agenda Topics Discussed

1. Administrative Update
• Equipment requests are due to Kay by October 31st.
• The goal is to replace computers below 600 MHz in the next round. The list will be prioritized.
• Check the public computers, and contact Kay if they are bad. Also check to see if there are enough public computers.
• No word thus far on the Compact.
• Kay can almost guarantee that there will be a new IRIS head by November/December.
2. A Week in the Life, starring Kate McCready and Vicki Glasgow of Infopoint.
   
   • Vicki Glasgow presentedstatistics from an analysis of their email and chat questions for the week of 9/28/03 through 10/4/03. 123 questions were received , the most on Tuesday with 34 questions. The busiest time of day was 12 noon to 5 pm. 61 of the 123questions came from U of MN students, 20 from U of MN staff, 10 from U of MN faculty, 13 unaffiliated users in Minnesota, and 13 non-affiliated non-MN.States represented that week were Texas, Michigan, Connecticut, California, New York and Arizona. Other countries were England, Canada, Norway and Korea. 2 came from unknown locations. 54% of the questions received that week were answered directly, 28% were referred to other units, 6% asked someone to look into and reply to Infopoint, 2% asked the requester for more info, and 10% received no reply (thank you notes).Infopoint has grown 400% since 1999.
   • Kate McCready demonstrated the process Infopoint staff follow when they answer and refer questions.
3. Jerilyn Veldof demonstrated RedLightGreen and the upcoming Dissertation Calculator.
• From the RedLightGreen website:
• Goal: To help students find authoritative sources for research information, by leveraging data contained within the RLG Union Catalog
• Intended users: Undergraduate students
• Interface: Publicly accessible Web site
• Underlying data: 126 million bibliographic records representing 42 million titles
• Technologies used: IBM DB2�, XML, Recommend MindServer
• Pilot deployment: Scheduled for fall 2003
• Goal: To help students find authoritative sources for research information, by leveraging data contained within the RLG Union Catalog
• This is a beta site. Send feedback to Jerilyn Veldof.
• The Dissertation Calculator will probably go live Spring 2003.
4. RefWorks will be going live November 1st. Training will be held:
   Fri, Oct 17: 9:00-10:15, S30C Wilson
   Fri, Oct 17: 10:45-12:00, Bio-Medical Library training area
   Fri, Oct 17: 1:30-2:45, 81 Magrath
   Tues, Oct 21, 10:00-11:15, S30C Wilson
   Thurs, Oct 30: 1:30-2:45, S30C Wilson
   Thurs, Oct 30: 3:00-4:25, 81 Magrath
5. Judy Wells spoke about the drug royalty money, new electronic resources acquired during the last year, the budget breakdown, and the bindery budget. We are not spending the entirety of the bindery budget.The group will discuss gift books at the next collections meeting. There are 6000 gift books. How to prioritize? Nancy Herther will give a demo of CSA interface at the next collections meeting.
6. Strike information from the October 8 memo from Patti Dion, Director of Employee Relations and Compensation: You may not:
   Ask clerical employees what their personal plans are about whether or not they will strike. This could be construed as an unfair labor practice, which is illegal.
   Ask clerical employees for information about the Union's position or strategy regarding a strike.
7. Kay handed out a budget handout, University Libraries FY04 Budget Summary (10/2/03) The libraries are doing better this year and will spend any surplus strategically. We need a list of most pressing needs in HSS. HSS project proposals will be prioritized before going to LLC.

Handouts:

• New "drug money" for HSS. (Judy Wells)
• New electronic resources acquired last year. (Judy Wells)
• Where does the money go? (Judy Wells)
• Bindery budget. (Judy Wells)
• University Libraries FY04 Budget Summary (Kay Kane)

Key Dates, Future Meetings
10/14/03 > 9:30-11:30 > S30A > HSS Collections Meeting > Judy Wells
10/24/03 > 9:30-11:30 > Anderson 120 > HSS Acad Programs Meeting > Kay Kane

Tasks/Action Items
10/31/03 > Equipment requests due to Kay

Participants

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Welcome to the world of blogs!

**entry purposely backdated; originally entered 1/12/04**
Hello Academic Programs -- H/SS! Welcome to the world of blogs. This is just a short message detailing some important points to remember about the software you are using, Movable Type. Note on the right hand side there is a link called "Movable Type manual." Take a look at this manual, especially the section dealing with "Entries." For the most part, this is all you will be doing on your blog is making entries, and/or making comments on other people's entries. I can help you with your "look and feel" or you can feel free to try and adjust it yourself.

On the administrative side note that you can both make a new entry and edit existing entries. Editing is handy especially when you make a spelling mistake. You may also upload files such as pictures, but keep in mind that you have a 1 MB limit. The Templates section is where you can alter the appearance of your blog. Keep in mind if you make any alterations in this section you must use "Rebuild Site" to see the changes reflected on your site. Next you may create new Categories or delete/modify existing ones. You can also create new categories as you enter a new entry. One area you may want to stay out of is the "Core Setup" area of the "Weblog Config." This is where all your directories are set. Otherwise feel free to roam around and make some changes.

Don't worry about messing stuff up (too much). As one of the first in the libraries to have a blog I'm counting on you to experiment and let me know what needs to be changed, added, deleted or what needs to happen to make blogs take off at the University Libraries.

You may delete this message when you feel it is appropriate.