OSL Offices

Meeting came to order at 2:25
Those in attendance:  Beth Johnson (CRA), Julie Holden (PAW), Lisa Davis (OSL), Linda Caisse (NKI), Jenifer Bond (WES), Hope Houston (OLIS), Mary Anne Quinn (WAR), Sue Dunn (WAR), Prue Fallon (TIV), Pat LaRose (NPT), Barbara Bussart (WNS).

Updates to III with Encore, etc., will cause most of our customizations to be lost.  

Joan will see about reviving the group purchasing committee and negotiations should be done by Joan.  Someone from our committee should be involved in the GP committee.  Contract for EBSCO started July 06.  It is a 3 year contract.

Meeting with EBSCO reps at our March 18 meeting.  We need to post this on OSL email and ask for questions to ask EBSCO people.  (poll our own staffs).  This is not an open invitation for all to attend, just a request for what people want to know.

OSL is looking for a new method of communication to replace MS Office
- at this time items need to be posted on three separate places.
 Campus Manager?  Will this need registration?  

Susan A. (NKI) - looking at changes in by-laws, fee structure, structure of OSL, etc.   New way of thinking of consortium: Voting practices, governing methods, weighted votes or more votes for larger/more active libraries….
Smaller libraries could be looking at lower fees - fee structure based on circulation stats, patron base, holdings, etc.

Preliminary vote for Envisionware indicated not all libraries are interested in buying.  According to Joan it is still up for discussion whether or not it must be system-wide.

Reference Round Table - promoting electronic databases.  Check dates at CRA - April 29, 30, May 1, May 6.

Speakers
Food (Beth)
Check what other libraries have done to push their databases.
Bring handouts that you have used.
Check WAR's website

Hope will check into possible speakers.  After EBSCO people 3/18, we will start planning RRT.

Time was spent selecting individual icons from three other catalogs - we will need to get permission to use these.  Some of them will need to be adapted.

Peter is going to activate additional material types.  Lisa will separate database to update cataloging to incorporate new material types.  Barb will work on adapting icons.

Research Pro - don't have any answers at this time.  

Should our committee be planning training on the new software packages that the consortium is purchasing?  OSL taking on all training issues, but as in the past, if we need to, our committee can step forward and offer something for reference people.

Millennium slowness - installing 16002 seems to improve things, but time of day seems to affect speed.
More bandwidth?  Talk to Ken about this possibility.

Libraries that put a slash in the Dewey number will not sort.

Beta - we get a more immediate response if we participate in the beta project, so Peter has been testing new options.

OSL support page - still on hold.  What do we want on our page?
Resources
Tips and Tricks for the catalog
Calendar

Melody is retiring at the end of June.

Picturing America grant - Lisa will apply on behalf of each library, but libraries must take receipt of materials.  To be displayed September - May.

Thank you to Lisa for the create list program.

Meeting April 8 to plan the Round Table.

Meeting ended at 4:15 pm.

Respectfully submitted,
Barbara J. Bussart (WNS)