University of Waterloo Library
                     Electronic Data Service Task Group
                            Minutes of Meeting
                           April 2, 1997 (FINAL)

Present   Albert Kemp, Doug Morton, Sue Moskal (Chair), Richard Pinnell,
          Sue Moskal (Chair), Shabiran Rahman (Secretary)


Absent   Carol Vogt



1. Business Arising 
   Sue will check to see if the statistics she downloaded for EDS are
   comprehensive. Richard will send manual monthly UMD statistics to Sue.
   New statistics form, similar to the one recently designed for reference
   statistics, was discussed and accepted in principle. Statistics 
   on the number of consultations-contacts and datasets requested, would
   be kept. Use of all numeric electronic data would be reported under
   EDS

2. Faculty Advisory Group Meeting
   This meeting would be held on Monday April 14th in the Davis Centre
   Library Conference room from 1.30pm-3.30pm. Dr Ron Lambert and Dr
   John Wilson have sent regrets
   Responsibilities for various agenda points were divided as follows:
    
   Introductions: Sue Moskal
   
   Communication: Doug Morton

   Management of DCS datasets: (Carol Vogt)
    
   Future Directions: Shabiran Rahman
         

3. TUG Initiative
    
   A group from UWEDS and WLU met with electronic data service providers
   from University of Guelph to see a demo of the progress made on their
   pilot project. Work done by Guelph opens up a number of possibilities
   with regards to co-operation. The Pilot Project finishes at the end of
   April. Bo Wandschneider  will send a copy of proposed recommendations
   for TUG collaborations to EDS. It was decided that EDS would meet with
   Mark Haslett, Jay Black and David Kibble to discuss the proposal

4. Leisure Studies Data Bank

   Richard reported that two of the datasets were up on the web. Technical
   design questions have yet to be sorted. Richard will do a demo at the
   next EDS meeting

5. Other Business

   Albert recommended that requests for technical assistance from him be
   routed through Carl Nagel