ELECTRONIC DATA SERVICE GROUP
MINUTES OF THE MEETING MAY 9, 2001


Present:	Cooper, Jack				Pinnell, Richard
		McTaggart, Judy (Recorder)		Rahman, Shabiran
		Moskal, Susan (Chair)


1.  Minutes of the Meeting of April 11, 2001:	Accepted


2.  Business Arising:.

Item 2, Business Arising (meeting of April 11):  Action:  Susan will arrange to meet  with Larry to discuss the cataloguing of data sets prior to the next meeting.

Item 6, Data Links:  Shabiran reported the newsletter has been sent to all faculty members on the distribution. list.  Changes to the list are being made as responses are received.  Action:  Shabiran will send a copy of the newsletter to Chris Redmond and ask that it be mentioned in the Daily Bulletin.


3.  Additional Agenda:

Add the following agenda items:  item no.4, OMG Report; item no.9, Vacation.
Change agenda item 6 to item no.10.

4. OMG Report (Richard):

Richard reported OMG did not meet - no report.


5.  CAPDU Report (Susan):

Susan noted she could not report on the CAPDU sessions she was to attend due to illness after her arrival at the conference.  The draft minutes from the CAPDU Annual General Meeting (distributed by Susan prior to the meeting) were reviewed and discussed by the EDS members.  Shabiran also provided feedback on the session she attended.

6.  SPARC Survey (Susan)

 Susan consulted with the EDS group on the SPARC Survey.  The questions were reviewed and the survey completed.

 
7.  Faculty Advisory Committee

A meeting of the Faculty Advisory Committee was set for Wednesday, June 6; Davis Conference Room (DC1568); 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.  It was agreed EDS members could discuss possible agenda topics by email.  Shabiran will ask Val to send the current list of advisory members to the EDS group.  Invitations will also be extended to the liaison librarians.  Actions:  Susan will send a call for agenda to the Faculty Advisory members;  Judy will book the room.

 

8. TDR (Richard)

Richard reported there will be a review of TDR next May.  He asked for feedback on how the TDR service could be improved to take back to the next OMG meeting.  There was discussion on the issue of charging for access  (Queens & Western provide other institutions with access to TDR data for a fee).  It was suggested we should look at what other institutions are doing - who's accessing what?  These issues will be discussed further at a future meeting.

Shabiran asked to see the results of the survey that was on the TDR site.  Action:  Richard will follow-up.

Richard asked for feedback on the questionnaire that was developed as part of the TDR log-on procedures.


9. Vacation

This item was deferred to the next meeting.


10:  Datastream (e-mail from Helene)

This item was deferred to the next meeting.


Next Meeting:  Friday, May 25, 2001;  Porter 224A;  10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.