May 11, 2004

Members Present: Bill Covey, Michele Crump, Martha Hruska, Erich Kesse, Cathy Mook, Betsy Simpson, and Phek Su

Members Absent:

1. Announcements

· Position in Contributed Cataloging formerly held by E. Garcia is now posted. S. Chen has resigned his position in Contributed Cataloging.

· The position in Serials Cataloging formerly held by M. Seals is now posted.

· Melody Smith has resigned her position in DLC.

· Martha noted, with regret, Phek Su’s plans to retire in July this year.

· Cathy Mook noted that Kendra Carter would be out on maternity leave this summer.

2. Update/Status Reports

a. Systems/Networking

· Hilton Soto has resigned his position in Systems. The position should be getting posted before the deadline.

b. Budget

· Book OCO - $23, 470.23

· Acquisitions projects the budget will be spent by the end of May.

c. Bridges

· Bridges Time/Labor policy (Weekly punch method vs. Web Clock was discussed.

d. Aleph status

· In planning for Binding training, it has been noted that some bib records are missing.

· Need for item cleanup. Donna at FCLA will run some reports to cut down on the manual cleanup needed

· Problem report forms are now available.

· Acceptance checklists are still in process. Betsy will place samples from Minnesota in Public Folders.

· Fine tuning the permissions and further clarification of use of the Own codes still work in progress. File load procedures, label printing are still being worked on

4. Technology Services organizational changes

· Proposed Technology Services organizational changes are under consideration. Each member will be discussing how these would best work in their areas and what implications there would be on internal organization. Aiming to move toward implementation in new fiscal year.