University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-June 8, 2005 - #E-23

Office of Vice Chancellor for Research
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research will participate in the GRC Web Conference "Strategies for Developing Competitive Grant Proposals," a Web conference designed for faculty who are new to grant proposal writing. Mimi Tangum, GRC Director, and Dan Riggle, GRC Program Manager, will conduct the two-hour, interactive session.

On the ARL Server (June 6, 2005)

ARL Directors: Tell us what you think -- ARL May 2005 Membership Meeting Evaluation

SPOTLIGHT ON: CIRLA Fellows Program
Georgetown University encourages MLS candidates to apply now for the Summer/Fall 2005 CIRLA Fellows Program. Designed to increase the diversity of the library profession and recruit the next generation of librarians, the program is funded by an IMLS grant to Georgetown. Fellows receive a wide range of benefits, including mentoring and placement in a one-year, paid, post-MLS professional position in a CIRLA library. The CIRLA Fellows Program is a joint project of the Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance and ARL.

MEETINGS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
• ARL Events at the ALA Annual Conference, June 2005, Chicago
•Webmetrics Workshop at ALA Conference, June 24, 2005, Chicago
•Reading and Mapping License Language for Electronic Resource Management: A Pilot ARL/DLF Workshop, June 24, 2005, ALA Annual Preconference
•ALA Annual 2005: SPARC-ACRL Forum: Three Big Ideas Transforming Scholarly Communication, June 25, Chicago
•LibQUAL+(TM) Workshops at ALA in June, Chicago
•Library Management Skills Institute II, Aug. 8 -11, 2005, hosted by UCLA
•Library Management Skills Institute I, Nov. 8 -10, 2005, hosted by UCLA

View the full ARL/OLMS 0025 calendar online

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CMLS Workshops (including online registration)
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CRL
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ICCMP
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IDAL
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ILA Reporter (a bimonthly newsletter of the Illinois Library Association)

ILCSO
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Web sites You Should Know About

Caxton Club
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Chicago Area Archivists
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Chicago Botanic Garden
Promotes gardens and gardening since 1890.

Field Museum
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HistoryMakers
Committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

Newberry Library
Includes information on programs for the public and a calendar of weekly events.

2005

• Collections & Technical Services Council Minutes, 05/4/05

Present: Bicknese, Bloss(Chair), Hurd, Malinowsky, Pifalo (by phone)

1. Minute-taking responsibilities were agreed upon. Bloss will take the first set of minutes. Bicknese will be next, then Hurd, and then the rotation will be alphabetical.

2. The Council reviewed the list of   "Functions that might be claimed by Councils" prepared by Jay Lambrecht. We agreed that the following were within the purview of the CTSC:

3. The Council reviewed topics that PDQ and CMQ have been working on, or monitoring, which may need to be handed off to other councils, or assigned to departments, or require policy decisions.

1. Standardizing use of item types in Voyager. This falls between Cataloging and Circulation. Bloss will touch bases with Daugherty on this.
2. Requesting in-process or on-order items in Voyager. This is an Access CC topic.                          
3. Using statistical categories in Voyager (A working group already exists. Bloss will clarify what this entails.)      
4. PromptCat and other shelf-ready hopes. Primarily Acquisitions and partly Cataloging.                                    
5. Brief guide on how to transfer materials from one location to another.   Cataloging     
6. Security Council. Still up in the air                                                            
7. Deleting long-missing items. Cataloging, but see # 10 .                                                 
8. Backloading of holdings information to OCLC. Cataloging                                 
9. GAR Billing. Access CC                                                                 
10. Distributed processing. Cataloging, Acquisitions, and sites. CTSC needs to develop policy.                                                      
11. Programming priorities list. The "Lisa list." Irrelevant now .                                                
12. Preservation/digitizing of old media types (LPs, etc.) Collections Development - CTSC needs to develop policy.
13. Shelving of media not kept in Reserve. Collections Development and Daley and site libraries . CTSC needs to develop policy.                                                     
14. New location names. Department or location that needs one. Need to clarify role of Voyager Security Council.
15. Hidden collections and priorities for Cataloging. Collections Development, Special Collections and Cataloging.
16. Next version of Voyager. Security Council, as the need arises .                                            
17. At Bindery status in Voyager. Acquisitions - project completed .                                       
18. EndUser. Systems contact                                                             
19. New books list. Public Services Council .                                                     
20. Future EDI developments. Acquisitions .                                             
21. Whether to bind journals that have electronic access. Collections Development and Acquisitions. CTSC needs to develop policy.                                                             
22. TECHWORKS. CTSC to monitor their activity .