Minutes 9/15/1999
Present: Imani Abalos (recorder), Bette Anton (facilitator), Phyllis
Bischof, Nensi Brailo, Katie Frohmberg (chair Cris Guerrero,), Ginny
Irving, Corliss Lee, Katherine Mitchell (meeting consultant),
Charlotte Rubens, Jutta Wiemhoff, Peter Soriano,
Absent: Elizabeth Byrne, Bernie Hurley, Mark Mentges
1) Announcements:
Jutta (NRLF) and Ginny (Law) were welcomed to the council. Introductions were made.
Library Administration will fund two individuals to attend "Reference
in the New Millenium" sponsored by the Virtual Reference Desk Project,
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Oct 14-15. Corliss
and Imani had expressed an interest, but are unable to attend. Corliss
recommended Oliver Heyer, and Nensi Brailo volunteered to attend this
conference. Members approved. Corliss will follow up with Oliver.
Imani agreed to serve as recorder in Elizabeth's absence.
2) Discussion and recommendations for AUL Public Services candidates -
Members unanimously approved a draft of comments regarding the AUL
Public Services candidates. Katie will finalize and forward
recommendations to University Librarian Lowell by 5pm today.
3) Continuing discussion of Public Services Task Force document: Katie
shared UL Lowell's expectations that the council, in considering
short, medium and long term projects to work on, should identify the
most important public service issues for UC Berkeley and work up
proposals detailing what it would take to implement ideas. He advised
against our thinking in terms of budgetary or staff constraints
indicating that Cabinet would decide how to fund and how to "make it
happen." Given that context, council selected the following set of
criteria (from a subset provided by Katie) to apply in deciding which
ideas to consider as project proposals:
A. Number of users affected -- Does the proposal have an impact on a
large primary clientele?
B. Efficiency for user -- Will the project increase scholarly
productivity by improving convenience or access by other means?
C. Visibility of improvement to -- Will the project have a visible
impact on services to the Library's clientele?
D. Cost -- Is the budget for the project reasonable given its scope
and potential impact?
E. Sustainability -- Once the project is completed, will its gains be
sustainable and ongoing?
Council continued its discussion of the PSTF document working through
Critical, One-time Projects, and Ongoing Needs making preliminary
decisions and prioritizing issues. Corliss annotated the document with
our decisions and comments and will distribute an updated version for
our next meeting. She also agreed to seek clarification on a couple of
ideas.
Council's assignment for the next meeting is for each member to be
prepared to suggest and discuss short- medium- or long-term projects.
4) Katie invited council to join Roundtable on 9/23, 8:30am-10am,
Education/Psychology Library to participate in a discussion of the
Digital Library Advisory Committee Report (7/99).
Next meeting September 29, 1pm-3pm, Earth/Maps seminar room, McCone.
Recorder: Elizabeth Byrne.
Adjourned.