• 2:00 - 2:15pm: Announcements
• Blackboard and e-reserves update – Bonna Boettcher

Attendees: Eleanor Brown, Anne Kenney, Xin Li, Kizer Walker, Pat Shafer, Kathy Chiang, Jean Poland, Scott Wicks, Kornelia Tancheva

Guests: Bonna Boettcher

Blackboard/e-reserves

Issues and concerns with the drop of use in e-reserves

• If a course uses both print and e-reserves there will be a link in Blackboard to the course reserves page in Voyager; links to the Blackboard login page will be included in Voyager.
• Should patrons be encouraged to go to reference librarian or should access services people be trained for help with e-reserves?
• Maybe we should make it clear that linking is not a copyright problem in the vast majority of instances.
• CIT will allow guest ID’s and is working on a library reserves button
• CIT/CUL will start training reserves processing staff the week of Oct. 30th
• CIT should let us know in the spring what works and what does not, so we can streamline the process; we also will need to gather input from reserves processing staff.

E-reserves communication with faculty DRAFT

• Should be reviewed by several faculty members before it goes out to print
• Should be kept short
• Link them to other more specific information instead of including it all in the mailing
• Make it into more of a checklist, so everyone does not have to read the whole thing
• Sarah should probably meet with the dean of faculty about mass mailings
• The first sentence should explain why this is beneficial to faculty, not why we being forced to use it--“look at what we can do for you”
• Reference staff should be able to help faculty get set up on Blackboard--Should attend training

Action Items

• Bonna will re-draft the communication handout and will send it to Anne and Peter Hirtle
• Anne will talk with Peter and John about the importance of the communication handout
• Carmen and Martha will keep the momentum going on this project when Bonna is gone.