Attendees:  Eleanor Brown, Kathy Chiang, Anne Kenney, Zsuzsa Koltay, Xin Li, Oya Rieger, Pat Schafer, Kizer Walker

Key Points:

·        PSEC proposed holding a meeting with other Executive Committees once a year on topics of mutual interest

·        PSEC sent a recommendation to the Assessment and Usability Committee and the Instruction Committee to hold a workshop on various methodologies for assessment, as means for measuring effectiveness of public service

·        PSEC to review LibQual and ILR phone survey in setting agenda for next year

1)      Announcements:

·        Public Services Administration (PSA) Website

          o       All the committees have begun adding to the website

          o       Committees should move old agendas and minutes off of the Staff Web

ACTION ITEMS:

ü     Tiffany/Jenn should clean up the CommonSpot report that Jenn made

ü     Jenn to set up an Archive page (for IRPC minutes) with links to it from the Instruction Committee and Reference & Outreach Committee pages

ü     Liaisons should remind committees to populate the Announcements section.  Jenn sent instructions about how to do this a while ago and can answer questions

ü     Liaisons should ask committees at each meeting for announcement ideas

ü     Tiffany to send monthly reminders to committee chairs regarding announcements and populating the web site

·        Public Service committee minutes (PSEC and PSEC committees) should put key decision making ideas at the very top of the minutes to support quick scans of minutes.  Anne will recommend the same to ITEC, CDExec and Technical Services

·        Pat and Anne will be meeting soon with the Reference & Outreach Co-chairs regarding reference statistics

·        Move to E-only discussion

         o       In the next three years, journals for the sciences, social sciences, and humanities will move to e-only (with notable exceptions; Mann has a list of reasonable exceptions)

         o       The selectors are or will visit academic departments to talk about scholarly communications issues (including the move to e-only)

         o       PSEC proposed having joint meetings with the other executive committees at least once per year

                    §         ITEC:  discuss PCAC issues; digital curation issue; pdf access; e-only issues

                    §         CDExec:  discuss integrated framework and collection development

ACTION ITEMS:

ü     Anne to talk to chairs of other executive committees about joint meetings and agenda items

·        Metasearch search update (Zsuzsa)

         o       2 metasearch options have already been eliminated

         o       Zsuzsa is still looking for metasearch input/wishes from people

·        Pat brought questions from the Reference & Outreach committee

         o       Ida and Jim still have “permanent” next to their names on the PSA website

         o       PSEC gave permission to take off “permanent” and replace with “2 years” and put an asterick with “these are the permanent representative libraries”

·        Xin gave an update on the Catalyst project

        o       The market analysis report was received

        o       12 representatives were interviewed about the concept and the readiness

        o       All 12 representatives are interested, but want to know prices

        o       Xin has two weeks to write a report to Sarah, who will schedule a meeting with the provost and use Xin’s report as the recommendation

2)      Discussion on the Academic Assembly talk

·        Other key challenges:

         o       Oya suggested gaining new skills for staff (important in DLIT)

·        Pat said the LibQual data is coming in and ILR has conducted a user survey as well

         o       Should we use this data for process-based assessment or outcome-based assessment?

         o       Does Cornell University as a whole use process-based or outcome-based assessment?

·        Administer “customer satisfaction surveys”

         o       At the end of a class, have faculty and students provide input about what the library did to improve their learning experience

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Have the Assessment and Usability Committee and the Instruction Committee hold a workshop on different methodologies for outcome success

ü      Pat Schafer and/or Deb Schmidle report on the LibQual and ILR telephone survey results; PSEC to develop action plans based on these reports

3)      Google Scholar on the Cornell Web search page (Kathy Chiang)

·        When ReDS installs the new metasearch search area, the search results will replace the area where the Google Scholar area is now

·        When Google Scholar is searched for under Find Databases, there are no hits that come back

ACTION ITEMS:

ü      Wait until ReDS and metasearch catch up

o       Google Scholar will come back as a database option to show that Cornell is informed and that we are looking at and using Google Scholar

4)      Update on the Eisner Project (Kathy Chiang)

·        The goal of the project is to create a connection between the library catalog and user interests

·        The team consists of: 1 faculty member, 3 graduate students, and library contacts (including, but not limited to, Kornelia Tancheva, Thad Dickinson, and Jesse Koennecke)

·        The students are now in the process of data mining.  They will create a report and present the report

·        The students need help using  MySQL, and PSEC supported the idea that the library provide some support for them