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ITIG Annual Organizing Meeting
Date: June 16, 2006
I. ERMS Discussion
Sarah Tudesco, Manager for Harvard College Library Collection Logistics
Sarah provided a brief overview of Electronic Resource Management Systems (ERMS). She noted that, historically, institutions built their own ERMS (for example, VERA at M.I.T.). An ERMS typically has a front end for public searching and a back end for staff management. It wasn't until around 2004 that library system vendors began to develop their own versions of ERMS.
An ERMS can help libraries with a number of electronic resource management issues, including: evaluation, negotiation, acquisition, licensing, troubleshooting, assessment, renewals, etc.
Today, ERMS products are available through integrated library system vendors such as Innovative, Ex Libris and Endeavor. There are also "stand-alone" providers, such as Serials Solutions, who offer ERMS products to work with their traditional "A to Z" list products. Sarah also noted a new subscription service, Scholarly Stats, that will gather and analyze electronic resource statistical data for subscribers.
There are a number of new issues and new functionalities regarding ERMS products. One area of interest is the new standards available for usage statistics (such as COUNTER statistics and SUSHI statistics). Also, new Licensing Markup Standards are increasing the visibility of usage rights.
There are several questions to consider if you are investigating the purchase of an ERMS. What is your current set-up? What do you need, and what is most important to you? For example, is overlap analysis an essential feature for your needs? What kind of technology can you support (host system, subscription service, etc.)?
For more information about ERMS products and standards, please visit: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k5848&pageid=icb.page27843. A brief group discussion of ERMS issues followed Sarah's presentation.
II. Election of ITIG officers for the upcoming year
ITIG Officers for the 2006-2007 year are as follows:
Chair: Janice Schuster, Providence College
Chair-Elects: Nancy George, Salem State College and
Olga Verbeek, Salve Regina University
Secretary: Bridget Rawding, Merrimack College
Treasurer: Melissa Behney, Connecticut College
Webmaster: Olga Verbeek, Salve Regina University
ITIG-Listserv: Shikha Sharma, University of Connecticut
III. Discussion of topics of interest for future programs
The group decided to plan for three large programs in the upcoming year, and one smaller planning meeting in June. The question of managing registrations was raised, and Olga said she could create an online form to authenticate registration. This would automate a lot of the registration management tasks (such as sending out confirmations), which would make it easier to handle.
The first ITIG meeting of the new academic year will be in late September, tentatively September 29th. The topic will focus on Information Commons and new technologies in multimedia centers. Ideally, this meeting will be held at an institution that has a learning commons center. Janice will investigate the possibility of UMass Amherst or Mt. Holyoke for hosting this program. Olga will talk to her director, Kathy Boyd, about presenting. Ms. Boyd is currently on a sabbatical to research Information Commons spaces, and she would likely be able to present on her findings at the September program.
The second meeting is tentatively scheduled for December 8th, with a possible snow date of December 15th. The topic will be Content Management Systems for college web sites. How does the academic library work with these systems? Also, what about using wikis and blogs as a content management system? A possible program title could be "Web Content Management Systems: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Perhaps Julie Linden or someone at UConn would be able to speak on this topic. URI's webmaster, Lisa Chen, could speak to the "techie" side of this topic, while someone from reference could then address how one builds content into the content management system. Janice will post a question on the planning committee listserv to get other ideas about presenters. Possible locations include UMass Boston or Holy Cross.
The third meeting is tentatively scheduled for March 16, 2007, possibly at Bryant University. Possible topics include: the changing nature of searching, including context-based browsing and visualization tools (e.g. AquaBrowser); FERBR standards; beyond federated searching, etc.
The final meeting of the year will be the planning meeting, tentatively scheduled for June 15 at Endicott College.
Addendum: We do need to change the date of our final planning meeting for June of 2007. The ACRL/NEC annual board retreat will most likely be on Friday, June 15, so could we change our planning meeting to June 22, 2007?
Respectfully Submitted,
Bridget Rawding
Head of Public Services
McQuade Library
Merrimack College
North Andover, MA.
bridget.rawding@merrimack.edu
ITIG Steering Committee Meeting
Date: July 8, 2005
Attendees: Sue McMullen, Frances Schlesinger, Melissa Behney, Nancy George, Myron Schirer-Suter
Planning for next year: the following 4 program ideas were suggested if speakers are available.
ERM -- Electronic Resource Management
Date: October 28, 2005
Place: Franklin Pierce
Possible Speakers: Serials Solutions, Innovative, UConn? MIT?
Duties:
Sue will contact Serials Solutions and Innovative to talk about their product. Melissa will let Sue know if there is a possibility of a speaker from UConn. MIT may be another possibility.
Frances will contact Leslie Ingles at Franklin Pierce to see if space is available for Oct. 28th
Communication & Collaboration: Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds
Date: December 9, 2005
Place: Bryant University
Possible Speakers:
Susan Herzog – Eastern Connecticut State University
Jessica Baumgart – Harvard University, Office of News and Public Affairs
Garrett Eastman – Rowland Institute, Harvard University
Duties:
Sue will contact Colleen about space and follow-up on speakers
Shibboleth Authentication/Authorization System
Date: March 17, 2006
Place: UMass Medical at Worcester
Possible Speakers:
Duties:
Sue will call Mary about space at UMass Medical. Nancy will contact Dartmouth to see who is using Shibboleth.
RFID - perhaps as it relates to privacy
Date: April 28, 2006
Place: UConn
Possible Speakers:
UConn, 3M
Duties:
Frances will book space and follow-up with possible UConn speakers. Myron will see if a speaker is available from 3M
Susan McMullen
Information Resources Librarian
Roger Williams University Libraries
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
401-254-3086
smcmullen@rwu.edu
Date: October 15, 2004
Proposed programs for 2004-05
November 2004
Joint program with NELIG scheduled for Nov. 19th at Rensselaer at Hartford. The ITIG portion will be Kendall Hobbs and Mike Roy presenting LOLA, Learning Objects/Learning Activities, a database developed to facilitate the sharing of teaching resources. Many thanks to Barbara Kenney, NELIG Chair, for organizing this meeting.
Action items:
Date: June 9, 2003 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Present: Melissa Behney, Frances Schlesinger, Olga Verbeek, Elaine Bean, Nancy George, Bridget Rawding.
I. New Officers
II. Meetings/Programs
- The Fall meeting will be about how to deal with online students (e.g., how to support online courses, how to provide library services to distance ed. students, etc.).
- The Spring meeting will cover Portals, and how the library can tie into the campus Portal.
- Frances pointed out that she missed the free form, roundtable kind of discussion that used to happen at ITIG meetings. The group noted that we should consider tweaking the meeting format to allow plenty of time for discussion.
- In an attempt to encourage more free flowing discussion, the group decided that the final meeting of the year should be a more general program, perhaps a panel or roundtable discussion about new trends in library Information Technologies.
III. Report on Board meeting from Melissa
IV. Listserv
Respectfully submitted,
- Nancy and Elaine will be committee Chairs.
- Melissa will be Chair Elect.
- Bridget will be Secretary.
- The August meeting will be about XML.
- Speakers include Barbara Herzog of Innovative Interfaces, Inc., Lisa Chen at URI, and perhaps one other speaker.
- Location will be UMass Boston.
- Tentative title is "Providing Library Services for the Distance Learner"
- Possible topics include electronic resources, instruction, and course management software.
- Possible speakers/contacts are Kathy Holmes at Lesley, Pat Noreau at UMass Lowell, and Olga at Salve Regina.
- Meeting will be held late October or November at Bryant or Providence College.
- Nancy will take care of arrangements.
- Plymouth State is doing this now.
- Elaine will follow up on what Springfield College is doing and will get a contact there.
- Elaine will also contact Elaine Allard at Plymouth State.
- Meeting will be in March 2004, at Merrimack College.
- Topics might include:
- What services do we offer, such as public scanners, MS Office, etc.?
- Future of the library catalog
- The future of eBooks
- GIS data sets
- Digital collections
- Grants for IT development
- Are our electronic resources still falling through the cracks?
- Format could be a roundtable discussion where presenters sit among attendees, rather than at a separate "head table."
- Location possibly Assumption College.
- Conference reports are on the web page.
- Marilyn Steinberg will create a database of possible meeting places for meetings and events.
- SIGS will be reimbursed for up to $400 for meetings.
- There are guidelines for speaker honoraria that must be followed.
- Send upcoming meeting info to Mary MacDonald.
- Email annual reports to Paula Bryant.
- Discussion of creating a "Librarian of the Year" recognition.
- There was a conversation about the role of SIGS and Continuing Ed. It was suggested that SIGS should "collapse" and let Continuing Ed take over programs. Some attendees spoke out against this proposal.
- Olga mentioned the ITIG listserv; Heidi no longer wants to moderate it, so can UConn still host it? Does list even need to be moderated? Olga will look into these issues.
Bridget Rawding
Date: May 9, 2002 at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.
Present:
William Anger, Providence
College,
wanger@providence.edu
Elaine
Bean, Rivier College, ebean@rivier.edu
Melissa Behney,
Connecticut College, mabeh@locust.conncoll.edu
Nancy
George, Salem State College, ngeorge@salemstate.edu
Sue
McMullen, Roger
Williams University, smcmullen@rwu.edu
Frances Schlesinger,
University of
Massachusetts Boston, Frances.Schlesinger@umb.edu
Janice Schuster,
Providence College,
jschustr@providence.edu
Olga Verbeek, Salve Regina University, verbeeko@salve.edu
Notes on upcoming meetings--
Instruction Modules:
- Nancy George will be the meeting coordinator
- Joint meeting with NELIG and possibly LOCI - Anna Litten, incoming Chair of NELIG, is interested and Nancy will talk with her.
- ITIG will cover the technology aspects
- Possibly have one discussion as a group and one long program with NELIG
- Speaker suggestions: Prof. Gale Eaton from URI has a fantastic WebCT course; Chris Cox at WPI; someone from the Helin Consortium
- Items of interest: Web-based tutorials, Blackboard, WebCT, modifying TILT, building your own (HTML, Flash); usability testing
XML Databases and New Style Cataloging (is the MARC record dead?):
- Olga Verbeek will be the meeting coordinator
- ACRL/NEC has continuing education funds and may be willing to sponsor a joint meeting or provide some funds
- Speaker suggestions: Candy Schwartz from Simmons; Norman Desmarais from Providence College; and others
Open URL:
- Janice Schuster and Sue McMullen will be the meeting coordinators
- Items of interest: Linking between databases and full text, managing e-resources (Cold Fusion, adding print holdings to Serials Solutions, etc.); NLM's Link Out initiative, CrossRef, SFX
- Speaker suggestions: someone from RML to speak about Link Out
Virtual Reference:
- Sue McMullen, Nancy George, and Melissa Behney will be the meeting coordinators
- Speaker suggestions: Boston Library Consortium, Umass, NELA presenter from Andover Public Library, someone from the Wesleyan pilot
- Items of interest: What are our colleagues doing?, technical issues
The group decided that meetings should be kept in and around the Boston/Route 128 beltway with one meeting south, one north, and one west. The Web-based tutorial/Online Instruction Modules meeting will probably be held in the Boston area. NELIG will probably have suggestions. XML might be hosted by Bryant College, Open URL in Worcester or at Rivier College, and Virtual Reference at UMass Medical if we can get someone there to host the meeting. Dates for the meetings will be set later on. All planning meetings will be done via e-mail unless the need for a formal meeting arises.
Date: February 2, 2001 at Providence College,Providence, RI.
Present: Heidi N. Abbey, U Conn, Dodd Research Center, heidi.abbey@uconn.edu; Sara Amato, Bowdoin College, samato@bowdoin.edu; Colleen Anderson (chair), Bryan College, canderso@bryant.edu; Elaine Bean, Rivier College, ebean@rivier.edu; Melissa Behney, Eastern Ct. State U., behneym@easternct.edu; Norman Desmarais, Providence College, normd@providence.edu; Linda Ernick, Rivier College, lernick@rivier.edu; Linda Ewbank, Brown University, Linda_Ewbank@brown.edu; Nancy George (recorder), Salem State College, ngeorge@salem.mass.edu; Mary Anne Golda, Roger Williams University, mag@alpha.rwu.edu; Susan McMullen, Roger Williams University, stm@alpha.rwu.edu; Mary C. Nelson, Massasoit Community College, mnelson@massasoit.mass.edu; Frances Schlesinger, U Mass Boston, frances.schlesinger@umb.edu; Olga Verbeek, Salve Regina University, verbeeko@salve.edu; Karen Wall, RISD, kewall@risd.edu;
I. Notes from ACRL/NEC General Board Meeting: The webmaster for ACRL/NEC is Mary Ann Hight from Bates College. ITIG's webmaster is Olga Verbeek. The spring ACRL/NEC meeting, Preserving Our Past or Gambling Our Future, is April 26 and 27. A New England librarian salary survey is being produced by Herb Carson from URI. It will be maintained by a graduate assistant at URI. Harvey Varnet, director of the Providence College Library, is the current chair of ACRL/NEC.
II. Nominations/Election for Officers for the 2001/02 Academic Year: All 2001/02 positions begin at the May 2001 ACRL/NEC Board Meeting. Melissa Wisner is the current secretary of ITIG. She will be contacted by Colleen to see if she would like to continue in this position for 2001/02. Sara Amato agreed to serve as treasurer. As treasurer, Sara will take care of the registration checks that come in for the spring program. Colleen Anderson nominated Olga Verbeek for the position of chair-elect. Olga accepted the nomination and she was elected chair-elect. Julie Linden will continue as the editor of the Tech Corner. Olga Verbeek agreed to continue as webmaster. Heidi Abbey is hosting the listserv. Colleen shared the print mailing list with Heidi.
III. Report on ITIG Web Page: No report at this time on the ITIG Web Page.
IV. Report on ITIG Tech Corner: Colleen and Olga are currently working on articles. Astrid Termin will work on one for May/June; Melissa Wisner wil work on one for April/May; Heidi is interested in writing an article for a Fall 2001 issue; Julie Linden is also interested in writing an article.
V. Report on Planning for June Meeting:
VI. XML Presentation: Following the business meeting, Norman Desmarais presented a program on XML. Information on this program will be found on the ITIG web site:http://www.acrlnec.org/sigs/itig/
Date: December 1, 2000 at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.
Present: Heidi Abbey (University of Connecticut), Colleen Anderson (Bryant College), David Avery (University of Connecticut), Melissa Behney (Eastern Connecticut State University), Norman Desmarais (Providence College), Jolene de Verges (Holy Cross), Kate Fuller (University of Connecticut), Tara Hurt (University of Connecticut), Leslie Lapham (Wellesley College), Recorder: Julie Linden (Yale), Susan McMullen (Roger Williams University), Charlie McNeil (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Frances Schlesinger (University of Massachusetts Boston), Astrid Terman (University of Connecticut), Olga Verbeek (Salve Regina University).
Introductions, welcome: Colleen Anderson reported that ITIG now has over 120 members.
Feb. meeting: The next meeting will be Friday, February 2, 2001 at Providence College. A business meeting will be held first (10-11 am), followed by Norman DesmaraisÌs presentation on XML/XHTML (11 am-noon). Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP to Norman by January 26 (normd@providence.edu). Julie will ask Melissa Wisner (ITIG secretary, who could not attend todayÌs meeting) to send the program information to the ACRL/NEC calendar.
June Meeting: The June program planning committee will hold its first meeting at Bryant College on January 19, 2001. Volunteers for the planning committee include: Colleen Anderson, Heidi Abbey, Susan McMullen, Melissa Behney, Astrid Terman, Julie Linden, and Frances Schlesinger. Colleen Anderson will send out a reminder note with directions before the meeting.
The topic for the June program was loosely defined as Ïexpanding the library catalogÓ - how libraries are making specialized catalogs and databases searchable on the web; how to address the challenges of interoperability between different catalogs; how to create Ïone-stop searchingÓ portals for users. The format will be: 2 speakers before lunch, 2 speakers after lunch, with long Q&A times for each. We hope to find two speakers to address more technical aspects of the theme and two speakers to address the reference/user aspects. Potential speakers from UConn and Yale were mentioned. Potential sites mentioned included Boston Public Library and Holy Cross; the planning committee will identify a site and a date.
Although there was discussion in the last meeting about co-sponsoring the June program with NEBIC, we will not hold a joint program in 2001. NEBIC is interested in having a joint program, however, and we may be able to co-sponsor a June program in 2002. A potential topic is Ïinstructional software.Ó
Expert directory: To increase information-sharing among ITIG members, we will expand the member directory to include membersÌ areas of expertise/interest and experience with particular products. Colleen will continue to maintain the database until May 2001; thereafter, we need a volunteer to update and maintain it. This will be an official ITIG position (like secretary and webmaster). Interested persons should contact Colleen Anderson. There was interest in putting the member database on the web, so that it could be searched and updated by members. Access and control are unresolved issues; we will talk to Olga Verbeek about the possibility of having the database on a server at Salve Regina.
ACRL/NEC Board minutes: Colleen will post a message to ITIG-L when the minutes are available on the web.
ITIG minutes: when posted on the web, Melissa will send a message with the URL to ITIG-L. The message will contain highlights of the minutes rather than the full text. Colleen will ask Melissa to post minutes to her and to Olga simultaneously.
Report on the Web page: Olga was not present to report on this item.
Report on the listserv: Heidi encouraged members to post, as the list has very low traffic. ColleenÌs recent note to members informed them that they will be added to ITIG-L automatically unless they request otherwise; Colleen and Heidi will communicate about when to add new members who have not objected. ITIG-L now has 70 members. Archives for ITIG-L have been created and are available on the ITIG web site. Members were asked to contact Heidi if they have problems with the listserv or archives.
Tech Corner: WeÌve so far been unsuccessful in getting monthly articles, so we agreed that this will be an ÏoccasionalÓ column and will try to have articles up bimonthly. Colleen will write an article on eBooks in January/February; Heidi and Astrid will send her some information they have on the topic. Melissa Wisner had agreed at the last meeting to write an article; she will be scheduled for March/April. Astrid Terman will write the May/June article. In the second half of the year (dates to be determined), Colleen will write an article on instructional software and Julie Linden will write on interoperability and the Open Archives Initiative.
There is a question about who is responsible for the HTML markup of the articles - the author, the editor, or the webmaster? Julie and Olga will discuss and decide.
Cold Fusion presentation: Tara Hurt volunteered to write a summary of the ColdFusion presentation; she will send it to Colleen, who will forward it to the ACRL/NEC newsletter editor.
September 2000 Meeting Minutes
Date: September 22, 2000 at University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Present: Heidi Abbey (University of Connecticut), Colleen Anderson (Bryant College), Norman Desmarais (Providence College), Nancy George (Salem State), Olga Verbeek (Salve Regina), Recorder: Melissa Wisner (University of Connecticut)
1st Agenda Item:
Appointment of secretary 2000/2001 Academic Year
Outcome: Melissa Wisner, Systems Librarian for the University of Connecticut was
voted in.
2nd Agenda Item:
Formation of planning committee to be planning
annual May meeting. Suggestions for date, topic, host site, and
speakers.Outcomes:
3rd Agenda Item:
Volunteers for October, November and December
"Tech Corner" write ups. Outcomes:
4th Agenda Item:
Report on ITIG-L listserv activity. Outcome:
Statement of number of subscribers; encouragement of members to post jobs; if
there are any problems with subscribing, etc. please report to Heidi Abbey.
5th Agenda Item:
Report on status of the ITIG Web page. Outcome:
Changing of the guard. Heidi Abbey formally passed the baton on to Olga Verbeek.
If ITIG members want to submit any PowerPoint presentations, please keep them in
the .ppt format.
6th Agenda Item:
Update on membership database Outcome: Colleen
Anderson will send Heidi Abbey names and email addresses of ITIG members and
officers.
7th Agenda Item:
Appointment of Volunteers to help with publicity
for Dec.1, 2000 Cold Fusion meeting at Salve Regina. Outcome: Set snow date of
December 15, 2000; Melissa Wisner will send an announcement to the NELINET and
Conntech lists; Nancy George will send announcements to Boston Area lists and
Web4LIB; Colleen Anderson will send announcements to BUSLIB. The ACRL/NEC
calendar of events needs to be updated to reflect this event and snow date.
Meeting Adjourned.
Follow-up presentation and hands-on
demonstration of MacroMedia's Flash presented by Heidi Abbey.
Date: April 7, 2000
Present: Heidi Abbey (UConn), Colleen Anderson (Bryant College), Norman Desmarais (Providence College), Charity Hope (minutes, UMass Amherst), Susan McMullen (Roger Williams University), Frances Schlesinger (UMass Boston), Olga Verbeek (Salve Regina)
Introductions
ITIG Listserv
Tech Corner
Authors should submit articles to J. Linden by the 1st
of the month preceding publication date for editing purposes. Edited articles
will be given to H. Abbey by the 15th, to be forwarded to A. White for
posting on the ITIG Website. Note: Olga Verbeek volunteered to be "on call" to
write tech corner articles if people need replacements. Proposed schedule and
authors for articles:
April: Planned XML article postponed to May
May: "XML and XHTML," Charity Hope
June: "New Technical Terms," Sarah Amato
July: "Flash," Heidi Abbey
August: "D-Compass," Steve Batt
September: "Coldfusion," Olga Verbeek
Future Meetings and Programming
The group agreed to offer one
primary program each May. In addition, speakers will present/lead a discussion
on a current topic at each of ITIG's 4 yearly business meetings.
Dates/locations/topics/speakers for upcoming meetings:
Update
May 26th Program "Applying Emerging Technologies in
Libraries." Registration has begun, more is anticipated closer to the date.
Miscellaneous
A new secretary to replace C. Hope, whose term ends
in May, will be recruited from ITIG members.
Submitted by Charity Hope
Edited by
Colleen Anderson. Reformatted by Heidi N. Abbey; May 25, 2000
May 1999 Meeting
Minutes
Date: May 10,
1999
Present: Colleen
Anderson (Bryant College), Michael Blake (Harvard College), Betsy Hoagg (UConn),
Charity Hope (minutes, UMass Amherst), Julie Linden (UMass Amherst), Olga
Verbeek (Salve Regina)
Introductions
Announcements
Electronic Reserves
Program
Two candidates are
available to serve as webmaster: Mary LaMarca (Dartmouth College) and Heidi
Abbey (UConn, MLS student). After a brief discussion, it was decided that we
would investigate whether the two candidates would be willing to share the
responsibility, and J. Linden agreed to contact them both. The group then
discussed the content of the web page that must be maintained and identified
possible areas of growth. These two categories include: top-level pages,
conference pages (including descriptions, registration info, and presentation
materials), information on the Resource Directory (although not the listings
themselves), a mechanism for submitting program ideas, a list of member
affiliations, IT articles (possibly related to programs), and links to like
organizations.
The group discussed the
issue of where ITIG web files are located, and the possibility of gaining direct
access to ITIG web files. Andrew White, ACRL/NEC webmaster, is moving to Bates
from Connecticut College, and the ACRL/NEC web site (including ITIG pages) is
moving with him. Ideally, ITIG would prefer direct access to a web server to the
current mediated access, so that updates could be made more easily. This was not
possible at Connecticut College, but it may be possible with the move to Bates.
O. Verbeek volunteered direct access to server space at Salve Regina. J.
Linden will investigate options.
Subcommittees
J. Linden and C. Hope
volunteered the first discussion group topic, "New Technologies, New Roles for
Librarians," which they would be willing to lead in various locations around
New England. Length of
Conference Location
Date
Size
The planning subcommittee
will meet this summer to settle on a program topic and begin work.
ITIG membership has grown
to about 75, dispersed all over New England.
ITIG Web
page
C. Anderson will create
nametags for the conference.
M. Blake will assist with
collating handouts and stuffing conference packets.
J. Linden will write a summary for
the conference Web page, for the ITIG annual report and for the ACRL/NEC
newsletter.
C.
Hope agreed to create an evaluation form.
The new Webmaster(s) will be asked
to post presentation materials to the conference Web page.
The
current ITIG web pages are located at
http://www.conncoll.edu/acrlnec/sigs/itig/.
The group agreed that
program and project planning would normally take place in subcommittees. In the
future, subcommittee meetings will normally take place directly following ITIG
general meetings. The following possible subcommittees were discussed:
Fall Program
Possible
programs:
The group determined
to send our top three choices for programs-Emerging Technologies, Web Tech and
Public Access Workstations--to the list of ITIG members for their feedback by
June 4, 1999. J. Linden will post the request for responses.
The group agreed to plan for a shortened full day. (9:30-3:30 or
so.)
Proposed sites included
UConn Storrs, UNH, Holy Cross, and the BU School of Management. C.
Anderson agreed to follow-up on the most promising of these sites, BU.
October was proposed as
a possibility. C. Anderson will identify possible dates.
Unknown, but possibly
around 100.
February 1999,
Organizational Meeting Minutes
Date: February 5,
1999
Present: Colleen
Anderson (Bryant College), Mary Courtney (Elms College), Marilyn Hanley (UMass
Amherst), Charity Hope (minutes, UMass Amherst), Julie Linden (UMass Amherst),
Margaret Marion (UMass Lowell), Julia Tryon (Providence
College) Purpose of
Group Officers The group also expressed
interest in offering smaller programs in addition to the two large annual
programs. These might be small, regionally focused discussion groups. The group
agreed that it would be appropriate to wait on planning for the small programs
until we had identified the needs and interests among the membership.
Other
Activities
Next
Meeting
Introductions
The group reviewed the purpose of the IT Interest Group, to address the
issues and interests of members who implement, support, use, or train others
in the use of information technology in libraries. Overlap with other Interest
Groups is anticipated, as most are addressing technical issues in their
programs. Because of this overlap, we may frequently have the opportunity to
cosponsor programs or other projects. In addition, we may provide programming on
IT issues that are not necessarily in the province of the other groups.
One year terms for officers were
agreed upon. The group decided to choose both a Chair and a Vice-Chair who will
serve as Chair when the Chair’s term ends in June 2000. The duties of the Chair
can be shared with the Vice-Chair, and include submitting annual reports,
attending ACRL-NEC board meetings, maintaining a membership list and handling
program finances. Julie Linden and Colleen Anderson agreed to serve as Chair
and Vice-Chair, respectively. Charity Hope agreed to serve as Secretary; the
duties of this position include recording the minutes and writing up program
reports.Programs
It was decided that, like other
Interest Groups, we would probably offer two big programs a year - spring and
fall. We would need to meet in the summer to plan for the fall program, and
again in December to plan for spring. For our first program, it was agreed that
we would co-sponsor with the Continuing Education Committee a conference on
Electronic Reserves on May 26 at UMass Lowell. Our group will contribute by
helping to attract potential speakers and by evaluating proposals. In addition,
Colleen Anderson agreed to contribute to the creation of forms/fliers for the
event. Julie Linden agreed to pass on the call for presenters to NELA and
NELINET, and to call on the whole Information Technology Interest Group list for
volunteers to help plan the conference. Charity Hope agreed to create Web pages
for the event. Volunteers will be contacted by e-mail.
Organizational Planning
Questions
were raised about the Technology Interest Group’s budget (possibly $250?) and
about the creation of bylaws; other issues may arise when Julie Linden receives
the Chapter Manual from ACRL-NEC. We agreed that further organizational planning
would occur by e-mail.>
Our next meeting is set for May 10,
1999 from 10-1 at Bryant College in Smithfield, RI. Our primary agenda for the
meeting will be to plan for the fall program and to get an update on the
progress of the expert directory. We may also at that time consider smaller
discussion group programs, recruit a Webmaster, and take care of any last minute
issues for the E-Reserves conference.
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