Present: Imani Abalos (facilitator), Bette Anton (recorder), Phyllis
Bischof, Nensi Brailo, Elizabeth
Byrne, Bernie Hurley, Ginny Irving, Corliss Lee, Mark Mentges, Katherine
Mitchell, Peter Soriano, Isabel Stirling (chair), Jutta Wiemhoff
Absent: Cris Guerrero, Charlotte Rubens
1. Announcements
The Task Force on Information & Reference Services within Doe and Moffitt
will have its first meeting on Friday, Dec. 17, 1999.
The E-mail Notification Task Force will meet on Thursday, Dec. 16, 1999.
2. Meeting roles and logistics (K. Mitchell)
Katherine Mitchell described her role with regard to the councils. After
presenting her "tour bus model" of meetings, the group discussed
expectations for each role. The roles for which expectations were noted
are Chair, Facilitator/Timekeeper, Agenda Item (Discussion) Leader, Minutes
Taker & Participants. A planned discussion of how to build agendas was
postponed until the next meeting.
2. LAUC-B's Public Service Task Force Priorities Document - putting it on
the web (P. Bischof)
Phyllis Bischof and Corliss Lee asked for PSC input on the suggestion that
the PSTF Priorities document, as a snapshot in time, be mounted on the web.
The group agreed the document should be mounted. Phyllis and Corliss will
work on a preface that explains the document and its
history and also describes more recent public services developments.
Several minor recommendations were made for improving the document, and for
variety of sites on the Library web from which it might be linked.
3. Melvyl RFP Update (B. Hurley)
Bernie Hurley reported on CDL's project to investigate replacing Melvyl and
the CDL hosted databases with a commercial system]. The three primary
reasons for this need are 1) improved functionality; 2) the obsolescence of
the Melvyl computer; and 3) staff efficiencies. CDL has requested input
from all the campuses, focusing on what in the current Melvyl is important
to us. RoundTable has recommended that a committee be appointed with
representatives from each of the 7 councils. After discussion the group
made several suggestions to Bernie which he agreed to add to the
recommendation to RoundTable. It was suggested and agreed upon that every
PSC meeting between now and the end of April should have the Melvyl RFP
update as an agenda item.
5. CDL's Articles Request (C. Rubens) postponed to Jan. 5 meeting
Next Meeting
January 5, 2000
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Bancroft Library
Conference Room
ACTION ITEMS:
Imani will find URL for PSC charge and distribute it to the group
[documents distributed 12/16/99].
Phyllis and Corliss will work on a preface for the PSTF Priorities document
and will send it out to PSC for input.
Parking Lot Agenda Items
· Discuss how/when to route documents for comments to minimize duplication
(PSC- FYI in subject heading).
· Notification of items received/access issues
· Suppressing web-based email on library public PCs