Information Services Management Committee

Minutes of the Meeting of July 11, 2000
Davis Conference Room

Present: Doug Morton, Wish Leonard, Maureen McCormack, Shabiran Rahman (Recorder), Susan Routliffe (Chair), Jackie Stapleton, Linda Teather

Absent: Marlene Laurence, Susan Moskal, Mary Stanley

  1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting
    Minutes were approved

  2. Update from Systems’ Liaison Working Group
    Maureen and Doug reported on the progress made thus far by the group. Maureen outlined the current procedures of what happens from the arrival of a CD/diskette to it being catalogued and finally mounted for use. A list is being created of all CD’s or diskettes that are waiting to be mounted on the public workstations. This is being done with input from ISR members and Systems Department. This would be discussed again with ISR to determine priorities. A large number of CD’s are currently received for government publications. Other options of dealing with these CDs would be explored after Sue Moskal returns from vacation. Doug and Maureen will meet with Linda Teather to share the tasks that are waiting and agree on future action.

  3. Responsibility for Content Decisions for Web Pages
    The Fast Track group for Homepage has completed the task assigned. Next steps in the on-going maintenance and development of the Library’s web site include identifying individuals or groups responsible for making content decisions for individual pages and identifying someone to do the work necessary to update the pages. Christine Jewell, Helena Calogeridis, and Jackie Stapleton have, for example, assumed responsibility for content decisions for the E-Texts page and Val Huggan and Janet Bullock will provide support when updates are needed. No one is yet responsible for content decisions for the Site Index or the Ask Us/Tell Us pages and Susan Routliffe proposed that ISMC assume responsibility for these pages. ISMC agreed to this. There was some discussion about having counters on all pages to determine how often each page is used. Linda will ask Charles about the possibility of counters

Next and last meeting before September would be held July 18.
Topics for future meetings will be discussed at this meeting.