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RILO Minutes
January 12, 2001

Present: Paul Burnam, Deb Carter Peoples, Danielle Clarke, Tom Green, Carol Hallenbeck, Carol Holliger, and Marsha Zavar

Paul asked everyone covering the Beeghly Reference Desk to turn into him his or her schedule of commitments for the following week by 5:00 P.M. each Wednesday. The information can be communicated to him by hard copy, word-of-mouth, or email.
Paul updated the group about the ordering of two new, Spanish-English dictionaries, his preparation to date for the cybercheating workshop, OhioLINK Capitol Connection workshops planned for March, and about his inquiries regarding the installation of an additional network connection in the Hamilton-Williams atrium.
Tom advised the Beeghly Reference people that they not obligated to stay for the duration of the 7:00-10:00 P.M. shift in the event of hazardous weather conditions. If one feels that it would be safer for him or her to leave early, that judgment will be respected. Further discussion concluded that it would be useful to supply Monty with librarian business cards so that he can more easily make referrals.

Paul conveyed news from the OhioLINK Lead Implementers’ meeting of January 4, 2001. A new Compaq server was purchased for high-volume Dataware databases such as Medline. Ownership rights to the BRS search engine are now not presently clear. So future enhancements may be slowed. Dataware version 6 is almost ready for implementation. A prototype of the new OhioLINK Web site will be released for staff testing by July 1. It will go public in August. The National Library of Medicine is folding the HealthSTAR, AIDSline, and CancerLIT databases back into Medline. Reloads for PsycINFO and CINAHL are in progress. Work on the multiple-database searching capability is ongoing. New software was purchased for this project. The target date for public release is August 1. Remote authentication is now supposed to be possible for all databases except ITKnowledge. Users will have to employ the OhioLINK Web site to connect to all the non-Dataware databases. Sanborn Maps will be added to the content of the Digital Media Center (DMC) by third week of January. Sanborn Maps represent 40,000 maps depicting Ohio communities from 1867-1970. Prototype for physics experiments videos will be ready by March. These videos will require the RealVideo plug-in. Fulltext of journals from the Thieme, Blackwell, and Cambridge University presses are currently be loaded into the EJC. Blackwell Science titles will be added soon. Project Muse will add over 200 titles in 2001.

Danielle explained about the convoluted process involved with trying to reserve a computer lab in which to do instruction. It was suggested that a list of microlabs on campus be developed. Information about how to reserve, number of workstations, availability of a projection screen, and room lighting control should be included.
Testing concluded on the Five Colleges of Ohio Information Literacy tutorial. Time for public release is near at hand. All who attended the Information Literacy Assessment Symposium at Wooster on January 9 were very positive about its content and leader. Danielle asked that we convey to her any significant new discoveries of Web sites about Information Literacy for linkage from the Five Colleges Information Literacy page.

Marsha announced that there will be no further charges assessed to faculty, students, or staff for photocopied ILL requests.

Carol informed the group that the local enterprise, The News Shop, is closing.
She will no longer be able to purchase the daily New York Times through them. The group was supportive of her intent to subscribe to the hard copy of the New York Times through EBSCO.

Tom distributed a sheet listing companies whose Web sites will be accessible from the University servers for Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Deb reminded the group that the deadline for ALAO presentation proposals is February 15, 2001. She suggested that we develop presentation about the Reference Camp experience of last summer. A group effort was suggested in order to illustrate what was said about roving reference, academic building reference assistance, consideration of a new Reference Desk, moving Reference workstations, and Campus Center Reference assistance during the noon hour. Paul agreed to compose initial draft of an abstract with Tom and Deb providing editorial support.

Next Meeting Feburary 23, 2001 at 9:00 A.M. Green Room. Paul will organize the agenda. Danielle will record minutes.

Submitted by,
Paul Burnam, Scribe