Working Meeting & Retreat Minutes
May 13, 2009
Attendees: Stephanie Baker, Fang Gao, MJ Han, Eleanor Hornbacker, Gail Hueting, Qiang
Jin, Mary Mallory, Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Norman, Paula Reveal, Marek Sroka, Lynn Wiley.
Absent: Atoma Batoma, David Griffiths
Facilitators: JoAnn Jacoby, Janis Johnston
Minutes:
1. Welcome, purpose and goals for this meeting
2. Introductions (name, title/current roles and responsibilities)
3. Opportunities and aspirations
- Make records available in SFX, ORR, and Easy Search
- Serial pattern records
- Cross-training
- Sharing knowledge/colloction of catalogers
- Proximity facilities
- Communicate
- Reduce backlogs
- More opportunities for Gov Docs Staff to start special projects
- Streamline easy/routine stuff to focus more effort on the unique and difficult
- Centralize maintenance
- Have diverse group to develop training for new catlog rules
- With changes in access/digitization opportunities to share metadata/Su Docs
- Batch processing; vendor loads
- Better process through integration
- Maintain connections to subject specialists
- Opportunities to raise gov docs processing to level of other materials
- Get everyone using consistent standards and process
- Lead the way, work out kinks
4. What do we need to do to make this work? What issues need to be resolved?
Workflows and processing
- Serial pattern records
- Students? supervision
- Automating processing
- Shelf space
- Look at integrating some procedures
Space
- Environment - docs. Corner?
- Involve facilities and IT
- Working conditions - big table for maps, etc., depository boxes, staging area for shipping
- Shelf space
- Processing area
Training and orientation
Coordination and leadership
- Unit within unit (webpage)
- Need to maintain connection to subject specialists
5. Assignment of working groups based on #4.
Workflows and processing
- Paula
- Eleanor
- Someone from Acquisitions to work on serial pattern records?
Space
Training and orientation
Coordination and leadership
