Present: Emily Balmages, Chanda Beck, Penny Bertrang, Ayana Bourgeois (Recorder), Julie Cain, Meredith Fleming, Norah Foster, Cris Guerrero, Susie Hanna, Debbie Jan (for Nag Tran) Victoria Jourdan, Brian Light, Lea Mascorro, Marianne McDonald, Ann Moen, Allison Rea, Madalene Rodriguez, Giulia Sacco-Trujillo, Bella Shirman, Peter Soriano, Isabel Stirling, Lupe Villegas, Jutta Wiemhoff (Chair), Bruce Williams, Caralee Witteveen-Lane Guest: Lorelie Mansur Action Items: ˇ Bruce/EAST will send out technical information about access to the Chinese journal database. ˇ Penny/SYS will suggest to Gail Ford to mount reserve statistics on the web. ˇ Jutta/NRLF will send out CSG meeting schedule for the next six meetings. ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. Introductions New Members: Circulation group members introduced themselves for the benefit of new members. 2. Announcements: ˇ Jutta proposed to revise the way the minute taker for meetings will be determined. The group agreed that it's preferable to select the recorder before each meeting. ˇ Bruce/EAST - The Pinyin Chinese Romanization project is currently underway nationally. RLIN and OCLC are in the process of converting authority and bibliographic records for Library of Congress. Effective October 1, 2000 all new cataloging on the utilities must use Pinyin romanization. OCLC expects to finish converting existing OCLC records by May 30, 2001. At the time that OCLC's conversion is complete, UCB will send a file of our Chinese language bibliographic records to OCLC for conversion. Because of the depth of this project and the fact it will not affect everyone, it was suggested that EAST provide some form of orientation or way to explain conversion for those who have need for this information once the system is in place. CSG may revisit this topic in the April or May meeting. ˇ Bruce also announced that November 1, EAST begins smart Barcode project to support autocirc ˇ Bruce also reported about a new Chinese Journal database. ˇ Penny/SYS - Charis Takaro is due back from maternity leave on October 2. She will be working three quarter time. Leslie will continue to handle Auto Circ (GLADIS) Authorizations. ˇ Jutta/NRLF - CDL Request service testing is completed. Starting September 21, undergraduates can request 5 articles/day from the CDL-hosted databases and 5 books/day from the Melvyl catalog. ˇ Meredith/MOFF - Five new classrooms have been added in Moffitt Library. Four are in Moffitt corners, 450a & 450B and 354 & 351B and outside next to the Free Speech Movement Café. ˇ Jutta/NRLF - She was unable to find another location or a suitable day for CSG to meet. We will continue to meet every 3rd Tuesday of each month in 251 Moffitt. 3. LSO update ˇ Morrison became a fining unit on May 10, 2000. ˇ Automation of reserve statistics - Changed programs to e-mail reserve statistics automatically at beginning of each month. It was suggested to have Gail Ford mount reserve statistics on the web. ˇ System office made changes to allow call number searching in Pathfinder indexes with support from the Tandem side. After testing phase 5/00-6/00, call number searching has been officially implemented in Pathfinder. Loan periods, which are uniform across all borrower types, were added to Pathfinder and are displayed in the circulation availability screen. ˇ Stanford/Berkeley Co-operative Borrowing - Berkeley patron records have been loaded into Stanford's circulation system. (Stanford patron records will be loaded into Berkeley's circ system in future.) Eligible UCB graduate students, academic staff, and faculty can search Stanford's catalog through Pathfinder and make requests automatically/electronically. (This feature is currently available in the experimental version of Pathfinder.) Special cards are no longer needed. When Stanford records are loaded into GLADIS, Circulation staff will be able to do name searches to call up Stanford patron records. 4. Public Service Council Update Peter Soriano (liaison to PSC) gave a brief report on the Pathfinder Enhancement Prioritization process. [NOTE: Subsequent to this CSG meeting, PSC members decided on the following top priority projects for Pathfinder: I. Re-indexing and new index requests-Included are: a. Adding a simple author index. b. Adding a simple title index. c. Adding a relators index (allowing for searches of conductors or performers, e.g.). d. Adding a new keyword index that combines title and subject indexes. e. Examining treatment of hyphens, which Pathfinder requires (but Gladis and Melvyl do not). II. Adding item-level information Information (such as NRLF barcodes; and non-circulating, 2-hour, same-day, or 1 or 7 day materials) from the detail screen in Gladis would now be available in Pathfinder. III. Page NRLF A button would be added to Pathfinder to page an item directly from NRLF.] 5. Pros and Cons of PC's at Circulation Desks Cris Guerrero pooled CSG members' opinions regarding the PC environment at the Circulation Desk. Discussion followed with pros and cons, ideas and suggestions to help Cris make a decision whether or not to use PC's at ENGI's circulation desk. 6. E-Mail Notification Lorelie Mansur from System gave an overview of the E-Mail Notification Task Force. She encourages all library staff and student employees to participate in the initial testing phase by signing up to receive e-mail notification. Here is how: Go to http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu/patronupdate and follow the instructions on the web form. Be sure to complete the form and, for security reasons, ALWAYS close the browser! One's library card number and the last four digits of the SSN# or PIN# are needed to access the form. Lorelie mentioned that all students, academic staff, and faculty members have SSN# in their patron records. However, non-academic staff and 04 borrowers may not. By November 1, LSO will start loading non-academic staff records into GLADIS and SSN#s will be added to all new records. If staff try to use the web form and get an error message, they can add their SSN# or PIN# at Service Desk. Each unit will have an e-mail address to receive bounced e-mail notices. CSG members had questions about how this new feature will be publicized. Lorelie and the task force invite everyone to send comments and suggestions on the proposed draft texts of the notifications to notice@library.berkeley.edu. 7. Library Hours Sheet Due to a lack of time this item will be deferred to the next meeting. Please take a look at the web site prior to the meeting (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/AboutLibrary/hours.html). Next meeting October 17, 10:30-noon 251 Moffitt
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