RILO Minutes
January 28, 2000

Present: Paul Burnam, Danielle Clarke, Bernard Derr, Tom Green, Joy He, Carol Holliger

1. Library Director
1. Although she was unable to attend the meeting because of other obligations, Dr. Theresa Byrd stopped by to ask that liaisons contact faculty members in the next couple of weeks to schedule 15-20 minute JSTOR training sessions. She announced the addition of JSTOR at the faculty meeting this past Monday.
2. Reference
1. Paul raised the question about whether we need a policy about the use of cell phones in the library. He will post a query on appropriate listservs to see how others are responding.
2. Paul reported on replacing the globe. He will circulate a catalog from Replogle Globes. The Map Store in Dublin carries these globes. He will check to see if the Friends might fund the replacement.
3. We decided to purchase Chronology of World History and Contemporary Women Artists with big ticket funds. We decided not to replace the 1990 edition of Research Services Directory and Paul will check with other libraries to determine whether we should keep our copy in Reference or move it to the stacks. [Paul found that those institutions that have the 14th (1990) edition (like us) as their most recent or only edition keep it in their reference collection. He proposes doing the same here.]
4. Paul will ask Theresa to see if the Teaching, Learning, and Cross-Cultural Committee has an interest in co-sponsoring a copyright workshop for faculty. The names of possible speakers were suggested. Is this topic something that might be of interest as an Ohio Five event?
3. Online
1. Paul reported that the Beilstein Crossfire demo is in question. There is no consortium price so it would cost us $5,000. Kenyon is not participating, Denison is unhappy with the product, and no word from Wooster.
2. Lexis-Nexis may be available through remote authentication, but no one had checked it yet. All but a few OhioLINK databases are available now through remote authentication. JSTOR is available remotely if users connect through OWU.
3. Paul reported on the possible subscription to World News Connection, compiled by the CIA, at $780 per year for a single user. He is checking to see what a "single user" means but has encountered difficulties connecting with anyone at NTIS, which administers this product's licensing.
4. The journal Marine Mammal Science is now available as two CD-ROMs on Closed Reserve. A shortcut is available on the CD-ROM workstation desktop.
4. Information Literacy
1. Danielle reported on the recent OH5 committee meeting at Wooster. She distributed our comments on the basic modules to appropriate committee members. She continues to work on the in-depth module on understanding citations.
2. As part of the Mellon grant, there will be a meeting of instructional staff with outside speaker(s) later this year. Please e-mail Danielle with your preference from the following weeks: May 22-26, May 30-June 2, or June 5-9.
3. Danielle proposed posting an online form for reporting library instruction sessions. She has a couple of examples. She was encouraged to experiment with this.
5. Government Docs
1. Joy alerted us to the fact that with the 106^th Congress the GPO will no longer distribute a bound Congressional Serial set and that depositories will be responsible for either purchasing a bound set (@$15,000) or binding through a vendor (@$2-3,000). The OH5 is seeking two schools to be libraries of record. Given our long run of this series and its use, we offered our support that OWU be one these libraries.
6. Other
1. Carol informed us that the Periodical Desk schedule is now filled to midnight (except for 10-12 on Mondays).
2. She gave Paul an updated periodical stack guide for use at the Reference Desk. This list provides the range of periodical titles are each shelving unit on the lower level of Beeghly.

Next meeting scheduled for March 10^th with Paul preparing the agenda and Carol Hallenbeck taking minutes.

Submitted by
Tom Green