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Public Services Executive Committee Committee Meeting
July 8, 2005 10:30 AM  
603 Olin Library

Agenda:
1)  Mark Eisner's Student Study and the Gateway Group (see forwarded email).


2)  Discussion on the current Gateway Committee List (see forwarded email).


3)  Library to Office Delivery Final Report (see forwarded email
Minutes:

Attendees:  Ross Atkinson, Eleanor Brown, Kathy Chiang, Pat Court, Anne Kenney, Zsuzsa Koltay, Xin Li, Oya Rieger, Pat Schafer, Scott Wicks

1)      Xin’s Access Services Questions about the website

ü      Carla Demello is coming to the July 22nd meeting, and will be providing templates for new PSEC and committees websites

 

2)      Mark Eisner’s Student Study and the Gateway Group

§         Eisner seems interested in expanded use

§         HILCC seems different than this

§         Need a subset of the catalog

§         Also look at Amazon-like capabilities

  •     literature reviews, cover images, table of contents

§         Eisner is also interested in a data mining issue

§         examine outliers…is this relevant to their research?

§         focus on undergrad/novice users

§         Ideas for the project

§         be specific enough in our description that it helps them

§         focus on a set by discipline

§         we want to provide the 10 or 15 titles that are most helpful

§         Data integration

  •       cluster searching
  •       novice user
  •       how many others have used it
  •       reviews

§         here are the pieces we want to bring together, what are the obstacles?

§         on this subject, these are the things that circulated most (top 10 or 15)

§         1)  most read/checked out by subject

§         2)  networking—sublevel; social network

  •    people who checked out this book also checked out these other ones (or looked at these topics)

ACTION ITEM:

ü      Xin and Kathy will draft a proposal (a 2 layer product)

 

3)      Current Gateway Committee List

ACTION ITEM:

ü      Anne get together with Maureen Morris to find out

§         What has worked, what hasn’t worked, what does this group do?

§         Then Anne should bring this to PSEC for review

 

 

 

Last updated: January 31, 2006