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Departmental Meeting
April 8, 2011
Davis Centre Library Conference Room 1568
10:00am – 11:30am
Minutes


Present: Laura Bredahl, Jennifer Haas (chair), Martha Lauzon, Kathy MacDonald, Angela Madden, Doug Morton, Ben Robinson, Jonathan Sutherland (recorder), Kathy Szigeti

  1. Approval of the Minutes - Approval of the minutes of the 11 February 2011 meeting was deferred.

  2. Business Arising from the Minutes
    There was no business arising.

  3. Call for Additional Agenda Items
    1. Library monitoring
    2. LibQuest 'Circulation Desk' facet

  4. E.D.S. Update – Kathy Szigeti
    EDS noted a Davis representative would be a useful addition to the committee membership given the increased use of data and statistics by the patrons that Davis serves.
    Action: Kathy will circulate EDS terms of reference to help Davis staff consider EDS representation.
    A new guide was created for data and statistics. Davis librarians were asked for links to data for the subjects they cover. The utility of a list of links for datasets was discussed and it was decided no one wants to contribute to such a thing because of maintenance issues.
    Action: Kathy was directed to voice these concerns to EDS.
    The TDR interface will be substituted with the <odesi> interface sometime in the summer.

  5. CRCnetBase Collections - Laura
    Laura requested input on buying CRCnetBase e-book collections. The merits of obtaining access to this material, and the various licence levels involved, were discussed, as was the importance of perpetual access in Computer Science and the replacement of print copies.

  6. Retention Policies
    There was some discussion of how fine-grained the policies should become. Ben clarified that the collection development policies do impact retention decisions. Doody's Core Titles was mentioned as a good resource for the Health Sciences.
    Action: Kathy M. will decide with Doug on the best place to post login information for Doody's.

  7. Library Monitoring - Martha
    Martha highlighted possible inconsistencies in enforcing 'leftover' hot food rules. The need for consistency was noted.

  8. LibQuest Facet - Jonathan
    Jonathan asked how much longer we wanted to retain the 'Sent to Circulation Desk' facet in LibQuest. It was decided to keep this until the end of the Spring/Summer term.
  9. Around the Table
    1. Martha: will be going on vacation for a month on 15-Apr-11.
    2. Angela: has had her contract renewed until the end of August. She will be teaching a third-year elective on evidence-based medicine in the Spring term. A new co-op student for the Pharmacy Library has been approved.
    3. Kathy S.: will be giving a talk on QR codes for Western ACR/OCULA.
    4. Ben: invited questions and offered support for retention policies.
    5. Kathy M.: the first stage of her research project, a survey, is now in the field. She will be participating as a librarian member in a workshop on how to teach evidence-based medicine at McMaster in June. She summarized some research on motivation by Peter Jensen, a teacher at this workshop
    6. Jonathan: a new Davis technical support co-op student, Jessica Ma, has been hired for the Springer/Summer term.
    7. Doug: has been working on QR codes for the mobile version of SciFinder.
    8. Jennifer: noted that the ebrary e-book licence is still not appearing for selectors as an option in Gobi.


October 7, 2011