OSL Minutes: LIT Committee Minutes, December 10, 2007

Special Meeting December 10, 2007
OSL Offices

In attendance: Mike Barrette (JOH), Chaichin Chen (OLIS), Dorey Conway (PRO), Miguel DeFaria (CFA), Celeste Dyer (CUM), Christie Getches (SKI), Ray Hetherington (GVL), Paul Holliday (CRA), Christine Jeffers (PAW), Georgene Luttmann (COV), Susan Moreland (NKI), Jill Payette (PRO), David Sok (PRO).

Call to order - Susan Moreland called the meeting to order at 9:40am.

I. Call to order - Susan Moreland called the meeting to order at 9:40am.

II. Brief Encore Demo- Susan read the charge given to the LIT committee by Joan Gillespie. The committee was asked to evaluate Encore and to provide to the Steering committee a written evaluation of what they considered and a list of specific recommendations by December 17, 2007.

III. Discussion about Encore - The group discussed Encore, other similar products (both commercial and open source) and federated searching at length. The group came up with a draft response to the committee's charge to evaluate Encore. Susan will post the draft on the LIT forum to solicit any changes and/or additions before submitting the report.

IV. Adjournment - meeting adjourned at 11:50am

Meeting adjourned at 11:50am.
                        
Submitted by Christine Jeffers



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