Information Services Management Committee

Minutes of the Meeting of September 4, 2001
1:30-3:30 P.M.
Porter Conference Room

Present : Wish Leonard, Maureen McCormack, Doug Morton, Susan Moskal, Susan Routliffe (Chair), Linda Teather, Rose Koebel (Recorder)

  1. Minutes of Previous Meeting

    The minutes of the August 28, 2001 meeting were approved with changes.

  2. Update on Recommendations in the ISR/Systems Relationship Report

    Linda will modify section 1.3 as suggested and send it to ISMC.  Doug and Maureen will draft criteria for assigning priorities to requests sent to Systems within the next few weeks.  Susan R. will send the report to the groups noted in the August 28 minutes.

  3. Statistics Table

    The Committee reviewed the layout of the table to improve its readability.  Columns for MIS, external reports and annual reports will be added.  The categories for IBIS, Communication About the Library, and Hits on Electronic Resources will be removed.  The data will be organized into two broad areas (reference and library instruction) with headings for information desks, e-mail, and consultations.  Susan M. will modify the report in Excel as per ISMC’s suggestions.   The Committee will review it at its next meeting.

  4. Review of List of Topics for ISMC Discussion

    Deferred to the next meeting.

  5. Systems Support for Laptops in Library

    Linda has spoken with Carl about the level of support Systems can provide.  Library Systems is unable to provide support for anything other than what is included in their written procedures, which will be similar to the Twinkle Lab.  If the same level of support as is offered in the Twinkle Lab can be arranged with IST, library staff should only need to know where the drops are located, and how to make the procedures available to users.  It was suggested that announcing the drops should not happen until:

    Maureen and Doug will work with Carl’s draft of the procedures; Wish will get a copy as well.  It was noted that providing laptop drops is not a basic library service, but analogous to providing photocopiers.

Next Meeting

September 11, 2001, Davis.  Topics will include the statistics table reworked by Susan M., list of topics for ISMC discussion, and laptops.