1. Announcements

2. LibGuides (Angela Horne)

3. Follow-up discussion on PSEC chairs' feedback on need to simplify funding request process for pilot projects and the idea of a CUL innovation fund (All) (discussion postponed until the November 14 meeting)

4. Draft budget questions for FY07 (Xin)

5. PSEC Committee liaisons (Pat)

6. SCRLC Education and Training Advisory Committee-CUL representative (Kornelia)

7. Clicker Proposal - Instruction Committee (Eli) (discussion postponed until the November 14 meeting)

8. Request for funding from the Citation Management Group for RefShare (Kornelia) (discussion postponed until the November 14 meeting)

Announcements

Marty sent out a message to PSEC about the possible upgrade of Voyager in the Spring. Because he has not heard anything back the issue is assumed closed for discussion.

LibGuides

LibGuide handout a LibGuides Team members, Timeline, Stakeholders, Features, Issues/Concerns, and Competitors

 

Angela’s group seeks feedback from PSEC

• LibGuides will also be in the Nov. 14^th PSEC agenda for more feedback after R&O Forum on November 13^th

Angela gave an overview of the team’s work-to-date and provided a demo of the system

 

Weill is interested in LibGuides

 

PSEC inquires about a public wiki

 

Group has started reaching out to Stakeholders

 

Issues

• Will PSEC endorse/support LibGuides?

Angela shows PSEC the beta version

 

LibGuides is very customizable

• Can customize columns, tabs (helps minimize scrolling), pictures, statistics, videos, RSS feeds, navigation bar, databases, branding options, dropdown lists, events, comments, FAQs and much more
• Can share a single guide among multiple creators

PSEC is unclear on who is recommending the databases, the library or the person (there is an option to attach a rating to a resource)

 

PSEC brings up the issue of whether popularity matters to the users (the main guides page shows “most popular” guides -- based on hits)

 

LibGuides can be put in Facebook, and bookmarks can be pulled in from a browser toolbar

 

Angela alerts the group to the fact that future versions of the program could look different.

 

PSEC questions what the maintenance group will look like

Draft Budget

Handout of FY 06/07 and projection for FY 07/08

• Some of the amounts are too small to bother transferring between accounts
• Projection of 30% increase from last year

Xin has questions for PSEC

• Will PSEC host public forums? Yes
• What should we do about the 200 publicity items? Communications should pay to have these made, and we should no longer do the coupons

Xin will take this to Lee and take the $1400 out of the spreadsheet, leaving the $300

• Can PCAC split forum money with AA? Yes

PSEC Committee Liaisons - New liaisons

Mary Ochs will take Kathy Chiang’s seat on PSEC and replace Pat Court as the liaison to PCAC

 

Xin will become the liaison to the Usability Committee

SCRLC CUL representative

Representative serves for 3 years

 

Lance H. will be leaving the committee and we will need to replace him

 

Lance was recommended by Carmen who had previously been on the committee

 

PSEC has questions of what the time commitment is and what is involved in serving on the committee

 

PSEC decided that it would be best to ask for volunteers

• Kornelia will ask Lance to ask Nora for more information about the position then it can be sent out to a librarians list through Susan Markowitz