Government Publications Department Meeting 9/11/07

Do we want to change our meeting time/day? Consensus was no.

There is a new Lexis-Nexis Academic interface. It looks more like Congressional. Take a look.

Web item records should have I-type 42 .

Items found missing while doing discard lists. Sheila and Leanne change the status to missing or create an item record with missing status. We decided to leave it to individual discretion. There will be many more discards coming as libraries are weeding.

CIS records. If we use them, we need to be consistent and make all the necessary changes. Leanne has instructions and macros we can use.

EBD records. Martha Jo found some troubling anomalies in the records, such as poor subject headings. We discussed using the records for retro. We would need to have instructions and macros (see CIS), but it would be quicker and cheaper than bringing in new records. Also wondering if we should look for paper copies when someone requests the fiche. We'll discuss these more when everyone is here.

Martha Jo said that Reference is shorthanded in the afternoons, when they want to double up, and asked if we would help staff their desk. Jennie said she would talk with Tim about it.