Attendees:   Anne Kenney, Pat Court, Pat Schafer, Angela Horne, Zsuzsa Koltay, Kathy Chiang, and Eli Brown

Guests: Julie Copenhagen and Linda Miller

1)  RAPID Proposal (Guest: Julie Copenhagen)

• February 23, 2004, CUL received an invitation from Catherine Murray-Rust, Dean of University Libraries at Colorado State University, to "consider joining a new, improved RAPID ILL/Document Delivery Service" for non-returnables (copy)
• Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania also received invitations. Columbia has verbally indicated it will join.
• Currently the membership totals 17 libraries. CSU is upgrading and rewriting the system. At the end of the development project membership will total 100 libraries. Various consortial models are under study.
• By joining now, the setup/training fees will be waived, and Cornell will be able to impact system design. The annual membership fee is $7,000.
• Similar to Borrow Direct in regard to minimal mediation by staff, requests are filled very fast. Users would submit a request through ILLiad, the request would go to RAPID for filling if held by a RAPID library. Data for our serials holdings would be represented in the common RAPID database. Users would receive the familiar ILLiad communciations for RAPID works with ILLiad.
• In regard to ILL income, it is difficult to predict the effect. One concern is an increase in lending volume, but lending volume can be controlled through load-leveling in the system.
• Working towards less mediation between the borrower and the information; turnaround time is no longer than 3 days and usually less from a user requesting an item to receiving it
• CSU is using RAPID for local document delivery 
• RAPID eliminates the most time consuming part:  the searching
• Julie Copenhagen and Jesse Koennecke will be performing sample requests to test possible fill rates for current RAPID members, the Big Ten (the University of Michigan is testing the system now), Columbia and the University of Pennyslvania and the other Borrow Direct libraries, plus others on our "wish list"
• Pat is organizing a demo of the system with CSU through PCAnywhere for next week
• Jesse will try to meet with Tom Delaney of Columbia, formerly of CSU, and Bob Krall of Penn at the Columbia/NYU Symposium

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Will return to PSEC by end of April with results of demo and further research

2)  Bullet points about the Library for student-led tours

·        Not sure what information students are being given or whether they use index cards

·        Tour guides are selling Cornell to prospective students and parents- consider both audience and purpose

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Contact Reba McCutcheon, Assistant Director of Campus Information and Visitor Relations (ram22, 5-5026) to see what info is currently being given to tour leaders about the Library

ü      Put together a small group/committee to develop bullet points for student tour leaders (Eli to chair?, Kornelia, Oliver, Carmen) and report back to PSEC in one month

3)  Refining LARIS cost/reference transaction data (Guest: Linda Miller)

·        Linda has been asked to rework this table on the LARIS site in light of concerns raised by ILR

·        The group discussed questions about how statistics for reference questions are being recorded and reported for the annual report.  They also discussed additional caveats that should be listed for the use of the data in this table.

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      The chart should look at data from 11.1 only- this may give a closer to true figure

ü      The chart should provide a longer list of caveats; ILR’s Kheel Center will have a separate entry.

ü      Angela Horne will remind IRPC of ARL guidelines surrounding what is considered a Reference transaction

4)  Announcements

·        Strategic Planning for PSEC will be discussed at the next meeting

·        Camille Andrews started in 2004 as a new Library Fellow

·        NEH has granted CUL funding to translate the Southeast Asia online tutorial for Iraq

·        March 22, 2004 is the date for the annual IRPC Retreat

The next PSEC Meeting is scheduled for: April 14, 2003:  1:30 – 3:00 pm, 702 Olin