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TALAG Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004
Giannini Foundation Library, 248 Giannini Hall

Present: Paul Atwood, Lily Castillo-Speed, Susan Garbarino, Ruth Girill, Ron Heckart, Terry Huwe, Dan Krummes (recorder), Waverly Lowell, Margaret Phillips (Guest), Maryly Snow, Kathleen Vanden Heuvel and Linda Vida.

1.      Minutes of Oct. 6 approved.

2.      Electronic Resources Finder (ERF) discussion.
M. Phillips met with TALAG members to discuss ERF.  Rather than present an overview of the ERF project, she focused on answering specific questions posed by TALAG members.  During the course of discussion she noted that ERF is aimed at a broader user audience than simply librarians.  In response to concerns that requested changes submitted by individual TALAG members had not yet been implemented, Margaret noted that there had been some e-mail communication problems recently and urged members to resubmit change requests to her.  She also noted that turnaround time for substantive change requests to ERF initiated by TALAG members should be about seven days.

3.      Announcements:

        a)      L. Vida, S. Garbarino and W. Lowell will meet with ADMIRE members on Dec. 7, from 2:00-3:00 in 303 Doe.  In addition to describing TALAG’s mission, they will also discuss the TALAG request for re-wording of Pathfinder descriptions found on a variety of Library web locations and handouts (see below)

        b)      L. Vida announced that she has learned officially that the e-Links project to connect to Gladis/Pathfinder in addition to Melvyl  that was initiated by CDL will not be implemented and has died.

        c)      P. Atwood announced that David Duer will discuss The Library’s current fund-raising efforts at the Nov. 16 Affiliated Libraries Fall Assembly.

        d)      L. Vida announced that the joint Water Resources Center Archives / Institute of Transportation Studies Library 2005 calendar has been published.

        e)      D. Krummes briefly discussed the possibility of the Affiliated Libraries jointly producing a calendar for the year 2006 or 2007 which would focus on Affiliated activities / collections and could be used in outreach activities.

        f)      T. Huwe discussed the planned Nov. 4  LAUC Statewide Assembly at UC Berkeley.  He also discussed the recently released report "Systemwide Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly Information" currently located at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/planning/.  A discussion regarding the report and its possible implications for Affiliated Libraries followed.

4.      Suggested language for The Library’s Melvyl/Pathfinder leaflets
R. Heckart and D. Krummes reported back on their attempt to provide concise, straight forward language to describe the complex relationships of Affiliated library holdings to Gladis/Pathfinder and Melvyl as presented in leaflets produced by The Library.  (They additionally noted that misleading descriptions of Pathfinder as “UC Berkeley’s online catalog” occurred in an unknown number of Library and UC Berkeley web locations as well).  Suggested leaflet language was discussed; and K. Vanden Heuvel and Ginny Irving’s suggested language was adopted by consensus:

        What is Melvyl?
Melvyl is the library catalog that includes all UC Berkeley Libraries and all campuses of the University of California.  It also includes other research collections such as the California State Library, Graduate Theological Union, and more.  It contains records for books, journals, videos, maps, sound recordings, scores, online resources, etc.

        What is Gladis?
Pathfinder is the web-based catalog that includes many, but not all, UC Berkeley libraries <then link to a List of libraries not included in Pathfinder>.  Pathfinder features keyword and boolean searching, clickable links, emailing of citations.

ACTION: L. Vida will discuss suggested leaflet language with Isabel Stirling.  W. Lowell will present suggested leaflet language at an upcoming WAG meeting.  L. Vida, S. Garbarino and W. Lowell will present suggested leaflet language to ADMIRE members. [There were additional suggestions via email that TALAG also address standardizing all web-based references to Gladis & Melvyl as well.]
        
5.      WAG developments
S. Garbarino’s temporary assignment to WAG has ended.  W. Lowell will assume the responsibilities of Affiliated representative to WAG at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

6.      NRLF Affiliated libraries storage quotas update
L. Vida reported on this continuing issue.  K. Vanden Heuvel noted that no action on storage quotas will evidently take place until after the project consolidation of the NRLF and SRLF boards takes effect.

7.      Librarian Principal Investigator status.
W. Lowell reported on her unsuccessful attempt to secure PI status.  It is believed that the official list of librarians eligible for PI status has not been drawn up and finalized.  A troubling potential restriction of librarian PI status was reported and its implications for Affiliated librarians was discussed.
ACTION: L. Castillo-Speed will discuss the librarian PI status with Chris Tarr and possibly with the University Librarian.

8.      Next meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005, 8:30-10:00 at the IGS Library.