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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Dept. Meeting Sept. 21, 2010

1. Announcements. (Peggy)
CSU has Indian hearings on Indian Depradations, etc., we might need.
CSU might participate in the Indiana light archive.
CSU would keep As, UNC EDs.
As no one responds to the needs and offers lists, the process needs
to be changed.
The 6-state web conference got mixed reviews.
Our trash finally got picked up.

2. Checkin records. (Deb)
Helene gave Deb only three questionable checkin records from the last
batch sent off for uploading.

3. New shipping list lists. (Linda)
Our old list (ca. 2200 records) of shipping list records which never got
overlain has disappeared, for some reason. Linda ran another one
(list 104) which now has over 5000 records.

4. Forest Service maps. (Deb)
Maps (Naomi?) ran across a bib record where we'd noted that a map had
been discarded because it had been superseded. Maps wants all the
editions of the series it takes (this one was in A 13.36/2-6:, they
take all of A 1.28: and the map-like pieces in A 13.26:) for
historical comparison. We will update the Maps and Superseded
sections of the wiki to reflect this exception.

5. Snipping tool. (Jennie)
Jennie demonstrated the snipping tool from Windows 7, which has
refinements and capabilities beyond Print Screen, e.g.
in 7, Paint can save files and composite cuts.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Government Information Meeting Minutes Wednesday, September 15, 2010

1. Announcements
Peggy – the ERIC records should be loaded within the next 2 weeks. There are 400,000, so they will be loaded 50,000 at a time. These will duplicate the records for the fiche we already have. The request page will be changing to request the digital copy.
Peggy’s presentation at the PS meeting this morning went great.
Deb told us that at the ERSA meeting she mentioned that she had moved a bunch of item records that were out of order, and asked if they could do the same if they came across them. They said that moving items within a large group would crash Chinook, and that’s why they don’t do it. As we have done this many times, we are dubious.
Deb has revised the wiki. Please take a look to see if it makes sense, and add in anything in your area.

2. Refworks 2.0 demo (Jennie)
Refworks 2.0 will be up sometime in the spring or summer. Jennie demonstrated some of its snazzier features.

3. iLibrary patron driven titles (Jennie)
You can tell these by the OCLC code in the record. These are from Coutts. When 3 people have looked at the actual publication, we’ve bought it, which generates “purchased” in a 956 field. You can look at 10 pages at a time, download or print, or export to RefWorks. Unlimited simultaneous users.

4. Encore fun (all)
Jennie showed us another good thing about Encore. You can put the professor or the course in the search box and come up with Reserves. We also discovered that you can get into electronic reserves without a course ID.
The facets for place are pulled from the subjects.
In ResearchPro, Esbsco has “full text” and “peer –reviewed.”