CRPC minutes 01/26/06

Continuing Resources Policy Meeting

Minutes from January 26, 2006 Meeting
Library East Conference Room, 2:00pm

Present

Rich Bennett, Pam Cenzer,Robena Cornwell, Michele Crump, Jason Fleming, Leilani Freund, Cathleen Mook-Martyniak, Robert Singerman, Jan Swanbeck, Martha Hruska

Announcements

A merger between Heckman Library bindery ( former binder for Smathers) and ICI ( owner of the current Smathers binder, Southeast) was announced recently. No significant changes should be noticed here at UF but keeping a slightly closer eye of the quality of the product for the next few months would be in order.
Three OPS students have been hired (One for 20 hours a week in Preservation and 2 at 10 hours a week at MSL) using Preservation funds to correct sorting problems in items records associated with titles held by those 2 locations. After completion of the active periodical titles, inactive periodical titles will be targeted next. Item records for the smaller libraries will also be 'fixed' by OPS staff funded and directed out of Preservation.
A small ad hoc task force charged with clarifying the procedures for Lost and Missing items was charged back in October. It progresses well and will make a fuller report at the upcoming Joint Aleph TS/PS/CM meeting.

Reports from ALA

Cornell predicted that ERMs will replace Catalogs in the future. Yale is going to go with Verde and OhioLink and Cornell have decided to use the III product.
UPitt is using a product called Zoom that is powered by WebFeat. It gives the user a one box portal to type in a keyword search and then the patrons have the option to use one of several databases or GoogleScholar.
Here is a link to their Digital Library Home Page http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digital.html.
ExLibris announced a new product that they hope will be available by the end of this year. That product is called Primo and it offers many of the same functionalities as MetaLib but it also FRBR-izes records. This program will use SFX, Metalib, and the catalog as its knowledge base.
It doesn't look like anything we have in pdf format will be able to load into Verde. Prior to loading we should look through our records and ensure that they conform to standards. See Appendix D of the DLF ERMI.
A couple of staff members attended the Webfeat (Federated search engine software) demo and report that there is an ability to customise is well developed and it doesn't appear to be that much different than Metalib. Rich saw a new version of the AquaBrowser being demonstrated as well.

Resource Navigation Group

Leilani reported that a new task force has been created to begin assessing user's responses to the Metalib product. Marilyn Ochoa will be heading this group. The plan on implementing user evalutions this semester and maybe bringing up Metalib in the Summer. This will give Tom, Rich and Leilani the time to focus on the technical aspects of Metalib. UNF is using Central Search instead of Metalib. Central Search is engineered by Serials Solutions.

Metadata Summit

The next meeting will be held on February 23rd, 2006 at 2:00 PM in the Library East conference room