Minutes for April 19 meeting

Updates from Peggy:

• Working on ERIC records with LU so that they'll be ready to show at Friday's GoPig meeting
• NTRL Web site beta access to end on the 25th
• May get 20th Century Parliamentary Papers in electronic format. Will discuss abandoning microprint if that happens, and the preservation (digitization?) of the Concordance.

GPO PURLS

• "No longer available as of.." appearing in some overlay records
• GPO is aware and searching for the documents
• Laura will DELETE these records; as GPO finds a copy, new records will be sent.
• Use WorldCat for discovery in the meantime

NTIS beta

• Not quite ready for prime time. When it gets better, we can discuss other dbs from which we may wish to unsubscribe.
• Another source to look for JPRS (Joint Publications Research Service) documents
• Errors found during meeting include:

1. Arranging results by asc./desc. order does not work when sorting results by "File Downloads."
2. Drops some facets during complex searching
3. "FT" not defined as Full Text. Many other acronyms not defined.
4. What is an "Analytic Daughter?"
5. No Multiple facets selection within same category (e.g., year)
6. Not all values for facets are displayed, but no "see more..." option is provided
7. No deselection of individual facets
8. Pulls keywords from full text and descriptors, but not from titles? Not at all clear how this works and help file is buried
9. Options and possible values to fill in some adv. search fields are unexplained, undefined, and unintuitive.
10. Selecting the "Results" tab negates entire search.

Martha Jo

• Feeling much better.
• Getting a pedicure
• Will see us maybe Friday or Monday for an hour
• We miss her and hope she is in top shape soon!