Minutes for 10/08/08u

Peggy opened the meeting with some News announcements:

• GovPubs circ statistics are up.
  
• We are close to hiring Laura Wright for the EU retro cataloging.
• Jennie's presentation on Research & Subject Guides this morning was very well received.

Debbie reported that, regarding the ASI load, she has switiched the ASI number from volume to call number field. There are still some problems with bib record call numbers that she is investigating.

Deb will be getting a "new" desk (Brice's old one). Do we want to keep the "old" (Martin's) desk?

Jennie and Peggy will be attending FDLC during the week of October 19th. Jennie will be gone all week.

Susan Anthes expressed a concern about moving our microforms on the 3d floor. Peggy assured her that all the microfiche cabinets are positioned on the outside of the room, where there are load-bearing floors.

CSU has pulled out of PASCAL because of state budget concerns. We don't know what affect this will have on our budget.

Ballot initiatives: There will be a link to Colorado ballot initiative information from our blog and from our Colorado page.

Cataloging issues: We did use 653 fields in our ASI records, so all these will need to be changed to 520 0 fields. Deb and Pat will l ook at this together. Also, we did use 522 fields for countries, but those can stay.

Databases:

• Trials: Lexis/Nexis Statistical Data Sets is now IP based. Everyone should try it, but note that it costs $16,000 per year.
• On a related note, we received a quote for the Monthly Catalog through ProQuest. It is $30,000 plus an annual maintenance fee of $1,000. Peggy will be talking to Yem to see if we can get them to drop the price.
• NationMaster database: this is a statistical database from Australia, which has received good reviews. It is a good interface to free data from various sources and there is some time series data. A link will be added to the NationMaster database from our statistics page. We will also add a link to Statistical Abstracts.

Copyright forms: Deb reported that you can no longer get online copyright forms to print. You can only fill them out online.

Library Exit Message: Peggy sent an email to Brice and John about the unpleasant message informing patrons to leave the library at closing time. She has received no response. It's pretty clear that they are not going to change it.

Holiday leave requests: Bring your holiday leave time requests to the next meeting, so we can discuss them after Linda is back.

Blog reminders: To post the minutes (and anything else) on the Internal Blog, follow these instructions:

• From the GovPubs homepage, click on the link to the Government Publications Blog.
• In the upper right hand corner, click on Sign In.
  
• Login : govpubs@colorado.edu
• Password: [use the front desk password]
• Go to the GovPubs Internal Blog and create a new post. Type the document in the window.
  
• Or, you can click on Edit html and paste a Word document in the window.
• If you have any questions, contact Salem or Jennie and they can help. (Salem is also happy to help you with posting to the wiki).
• GovPubs Reference Blog: Reminder to use this for reference questions. There is some good stuff in there and you can do a keyword search to search the entries.
• Blob and emal passwords can be found in the Rolodex.
  

Guest Log-Ins: "UCB Wireless is available to guests visiting the CU-Boulder campus. Guests include family visiting students, visiting instructors, vendors, and other visitors doing business on the CU-Boulder campus. To access the UCB Guest Wireless system, a CU-Boulder affiliated student, staff, or faculty member will have to sponsor their guest." -- from the Guest Wireless web-page.
Jennie posted a blog entry about guest log-ins on the govpubs reference blog.

From the Public Services Division meeting:

• The research desk will open after Thanksgiving.
  
• The reference computers will move to the research floor. Peggy and Jennie will make the case that they all need to have the Microsoft Office Suite. The computer labs on the third floor will remain as is through the end of the semester.
  
• New computers will not be ordered for the research floor until after Apple releases its next generation product (this is a hardware release).
  
• All new computers on the research floor will have dual boot environments.
• Next semester, work will begin on the graduate student lounge area in the current MAC lab. To compensate, students will be able to checkout laptops.

Latest moves:

• The tax form rack has been moved to the Office. The top rows have 2006 forms and the bottom rows have the 2005 forms.

Staff notes:

• Peggy will be out Thursday, Oct. 9th. She will be in the Engineering Library to discuss creating a training and experience narrative for their LTIII position. There are 31 applicants.
• Peggy will also be out Thursday, Oct. 16th for election judge training.
  
• Salem will be out Friday, Oct. 10th and Monday, Oct. 13th.
• Leanne will be out Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 14th.

Respectfully submitted,
Leanne Walther