In Attendance: Miko Pattie, Susan Brown, Jackie Kinder, Gary Austin, Beverly Daley, Bill Richardson, Carrie Stephenson, Sandee Mcaninch
Next Meeting: TBA
Gary Austin and Bill Richardson were appointed co-chairs.
Jackie Kinder and Susan Brown are new KCVL staff members who have joined this group. Jackie will be the group's liaison to KCVL.
It was agreed that the GODORT chair should be asked to join this group.
Dee Wood, Barb Teague, Larry Besant, Jim Edwards are rotating off the committee.
Beverly Daley will call Rae Shepherd-Schlecter to join us as a Louisville depository person since Lisa is leaving and Lee will be retiring soon. She will cc Miko so that Miko gets the email address.
Bill Richardson will call Matt Onion from Ashland Community College to see if he would like to be on the committee so that we have a community college representative. Bill will also ask the LRC librarian to join us. He will cc Miko so that she gets those email addresses.
Digitization of state publications project- Gary and Bill will work on this. They will also check with Matt Onion to see if he would work on it. Bill's library intern will also work on it. They will be working with the Kentuckiana group.
The GIA Listserv will move from UK and Miko will create a new one that includes the new members. Bill will send Miko email addresses of those who should be on the listserv.
Bill Richardson mentioned that the Core List will be looked at annually for possible revision and that this group and GODORT need to make recommendations for the list.
KCVL has one time money to spend for GIA. Must spend it by June 2000. There was discussion about using the money for getting commercial databases of government information but unfortunately, there is no continuing support money so this cannot be done. It was suggested that the money is used for getting census data but Beverly said we would probably not have to pay anything for 2000 census data.
Miko suggested that KCVL contract with the Ky State Data Center to see if we could get some files on the web such as the County Profiles. However, again, there would probably not be any charges involved.
We need to think about what topics we want KY statistics on and then perhaps we could contract with the Data Center. Also we need to find out from the CPE what federal data needs they have. (Who was taking responsibility for this?)
We might also be able to work some agreements with the other libraries for government resources. We should make a list of what we would like to have.
The Collections subcommittee did not look at Federal resources commercial databases. Gary Austin agreed to become a member of that committee to represent Federal Information resource needs.
Beverly Daly brought examples of on-line census databases that are available. Gary will check with Oregon concerning their database and report back to us at the next meeting.
The GIA website changes were discussed. Susan Brown demonstrated the changes she made to the web page. It was agreed that frames would be dropped. The intro page will be moved to the About KCVL bar and instead will be listed the subject headings. We also agreed that we would use the DDC subject headings. The word Access will be removed from the header. Gary will send Susan a pamphlet that lists the new Dewey headings.
It was decided not to make the page ADA friendly now because it would not blend with the rest of the Eduprise format.
Susan is learning JavaScript and will add enhancements to the page as she learns. In the meantime, she will use the alt tag feature to write a more concise description for the Government Information bar on the KCVL home page. We will include Kentucky, National and International documents. We will start with Kentucky, concentrating on sites that have full-text items that are valuable for Kentucky research needs. Eventually, we would like to have a search engine that would be similar to that used by the Berkeley Librarian's Guide to the Internet. We are concentrating on full-text items.
We also discussed the possibility of using the GPO PERL links instead of the URL's It was agreed that we would go for quality not quantity. We will evaluate sites and narrow it down to those that have value for Kentucky.
People will be able to email suggestions for links to Susan. Susan will ask for input from the group about any suggestions and reasons why not to add. We will have a Web Policy behind the About KCVL bar. Jackie will work on a rough draft of this.
Any suggestions for links should be sent to Susan Brown by 9/15 in order to get them on the web page for rollout.
Susan will make the KCVL icon file available behind the About KCVL bar.
Concern was expressed that the libraries that have documents listed in their OPACs will be getting a lot of requests for items that may be in the student's home library but not listed on their OPAC. How will this be handled? For now, the answer is that ILL librarians should be able to catch this when they are processing requests.
The committee will be having regular meetings. We need to decide when those meetings should be. For the people present at today's meeting the consensus was that Tuesday or Wednesday afternoons were best. We need to hear from the other group members before designating a standing meeting time.
In the meantime, we should be thinking about setting goals and timelines for what we want this group to accomplish.
FOR THE NEXT MEETING: Bill R. distributed the latest version of KDLA's digitization proposal although we didn't review it. Could some of our one-time funding that has to be spent by June 2000 go to KDLA for scanning?
Last updated:8-30-99
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