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

1)        Clarification for PSEC members regarding Committees

§         Tiffany passed around the Committee members list to the PSEC members to have them confirm the members one last time

§         When the term “permanent” is used, it refers to representation from that person’s respective place (for example, Mann or Olin)—the terms for individuals filling the positions will vary

§         Committees in general were wondering how much authority they have, and how much they should be reporting back to PSEC

             o       For the first year, it was suggested that the committees refer most things to PSEC for approval. PSEC’s role is to develop and set policy; the committees are the means through which implementation occurs

             o       The PSEC Liaisons can help determine when an issue should come to PSEC

2)      Decision needed for master negatives in Annex

§         There are a very small volume of master negatives that do not have any print copies or positive film copies for use.

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      When an item is requested by a patron, make a circulating copy and leave it on campus (based on the original location of the master negative)

ü      Have Challenge Industries make the copies

ü      Preservation will pay for the copies

ü      Xin should ask Barbara Berger Eden about digitizing these negatives

3)      Proposal to Eisner on Data Mining project

§         The committee reviewed the proposal prepared by Kathy Chiang and Xin Li to engage Einer’s students in a data mining project based on circulation records. Some concerns presented include:  resources and time commitments; whether or not Cornell is a large enough community (with faculty members) for this project

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Kathy to talk to Eisner and see if this is a project that he would like to pursue; if so, Kathy will ask for some sample proposals to use as a model

ü      The various stakeholders will need to be consulted about necessary resources

ü      The draft proposal will come back to PSEC for review and comment, with a fairly short turn around time.   

4)     Open-ended Faculty Due Date

§         PSEC all agreed that this should be done

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      send a yearly letter/notice telling the faculty members which books they do have out currently

ü      stamp the books with the following “due back upon recall or upon leaving the university”

ü      Access services committee should write up a plan for implementing this

5)      LibQUAL survey discussion

§         PSEC determined which additional questions to include in this year’s survey, and agreed upon using nos 33, 43, 48, 84, 99

§         It was agreed to offer an incentive for participation which will be a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to Campus Store (on Anne’s tab)

6)      PSEC website discussion

§         Anne asked that each public services committee designate a content manager for their portion of the site 

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Liaisons need to take this to their respective committees to find out who the designate will be

ü      Liaisons should send this person’s name to Tiffany (tlh39@cornell.edu) to send to Jenn Colt-Demaree