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Access Services Committee Committee Meeting
September 18, 2007 10:30 AM  
403 Olin

Agenda:
- Review Library Public Service Office Forms
- PSEC meeting - Committee chairs have been invited to PSEC meeting next week to discuss issues and activities currently on our agenda.
- What should be presented from our committee?
- Suggested changes to request screen in catalog.
- Tutorial for submitting reserves

Minutes:
Attending:
Carmen Blankinship, Barbara Eden (note taker), Cammie Hoffmier, Jesse Koennecke,
Joanne Leary, Nancy Moore, Staci Rogers, Lenora Schneller, Linda Miller (guest) 
 
 
Discussion on Public Service Office Forms will be reviewed online and discussed at the October meeting.
 
Linda Miller requested that the committee review all of the annual statistics tables that impact Access by November 1st. There are ARL requirements that we need to support, but we also need to determine what CUL needs to know in addition to the ARL numbers. The committee requested clarification on the process to fulfill requests for custom reports.
 
Joanne Leary agreed to chair a task force to looks at the circulation statistics kept for peripherals /equipment. They need to be clarified.
 
There are also statistics issues with the various types of library reserves.
 Joanne will be the liaison for the RAU department.
 
The committee brainstormed with Carmen a list of priority issues for the Access committee for 2007/08. She will be sharing the list with PSEC.
Carmen posted the following list:
 
GOALS FOR 2007/ 2008
Reserves
          -Appoint reserve sub group to:
-Review electronic reserves and Blackboard procedures, policies and recommend changes or enhancements. Work with CIT on policies and procedures.
          - Explore use/purchase of ARIES as reserve management tool. Make recommendations to PSEC.
 
Billing
          - Billing manual ? complete work on billing manual and providing access to it on Wiki.
          - Consolidated billing ? complete review of billing practices and make recommendations to PSEC
 
Distance delivery services
          -Appoint committee to evaluate existing distance delivery services to identify best practices and opportunities to improve and expand service.
 
Document Delivery
          -Establish periodic meetings of document delivery staff from units to review procedures and discuss issues. Work with Get it! team on issues relating to potential changes in document delivery services, for instance, possible implementation of free document delivery.
 
Library Public services
          - Review procedures for affiliate library cards and proxy cards and when possible establish online forms.
 
Gateway information
          -Work with Gateway committee to update current access information. Work with Vision team on including access services information.
 
Voyager upgrade
          -Prepare for May 2008 upgrade 

 

Last updated: October 4, 2007