Attendees:  Kathy Chiang, Anne Kenney, Xin Li, Oya Rieger, Pat Schafer, Kizer Walker, Scott Wicks

1)      Announcements:

· Mark Eisner’s Student Project presentation

• Kathy Chiang will attend this presentation and report back to PSEC with results

·  Catalyst update:

• Xin attended the LMT meeting, where the Executive Summary for Catalyst was reviewed
• Three phases to the project
• -Summer 2006- Storage rental
• -Summer/Fall 2007- Storage and protection in Annex; collaborative ownership of the items in the Annex (putting our collections into Catalyst, not into other institutions’ collections)
• -Final phase- JSTOR print repository

·  Xin submitted the PSEC budget proposal; no word yet on the status of the request

·  PSEC will review subcommittee membership, including expiration dates, beginning in July

ACTION ITEM:

• Committees should send to PSEC (two paragraphs maximum) regarding the pros and cons of the current PSEC organization and suggested changes.  PSEC liaisons should ask committees for this by the end of June

2)  Definition of what to include in Find Databases (with Scott Wicks and John Saylor)

·  Find Databases will be moving off of Encompass and onto a III (Innovative Interfaces) product; WebFeat draws from both Find Databases and Find Articles

·  Due to this change, some questions have come up:

• How valuable is Find Databases?
• What are we missing by using WebFeat databases?
• What are the top databases most frequently used?

ACTION ITEMS:

• More feedback is needed, so hold a morning forum and invite people from Reference and people from Outreach to attend and provide feedback
• Drop lesser used databases from the new list on Innovative Interfaces

3)  Public Services-Related Statistics in the CUL Annual Statistics Report (with Nancy McGovern and Linda Miller)

·  Linda Miller distributed a handout regarding taking ownership of the public services related areas of the Annual Statistics

ACTION ITEMS:

-PSEC agreed that this is a Public Services function

-Next steps:

• PSEC members should review the annual report (Tiffany to send paper copies of the report to each member) and look for trends by June
• PSEC will consult with the subcommittees in June and request their recommendations (Linda Miller is willing to attend these)
• -Are the suggested list of table distributions correct?
• -Would you add tables?
• -Look at any trends
• -Are there new tables you would like to see?
• PSEC will make a recommendation based on the input to the Council of Librarians