April 11, 2018 Meeting of Life Sciences

Time and Location of Meeting

April 11, 201810:30 am - 12:00 pm 206 Funk Library

Agenda Details

Agenda

  1. 10:30-11:15am Website discussion with John Laskowski
  2. Approval of 2/14 minutes (taken by Kelli)
  3. Collections discussion
    1. Wrap-up approvals discussion – autoships and publishers to remove
  4. College of Medicine update – Kelli, Erin, Peg, Ryan
  5. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
  6. Round Table
  7. Adjourn

Minutes Details

Minutes

  1. 10:30-11:15am Website discussion with John Laskowski
    1. John is working on website and physical spaces.
    2. New media plug-ins should be available in WordPress soon.
    3. A sample of John’s projects/work
      1. CAPT Web Working Group – Chairs this group, which is focused on the gateway, top level pages, and policies
      2. Library IT Web Team — Meets with them regularly to discuss development plans
      3. Google Analytics — John & Robert Slater are the Library’s Google Analytics “experts.” John’s approach is to be data-informed, rather than data-driven.
      4. New and Redesigned Web Projects
        1. Illinois Newspaper Project – Developed plans/wireframes with the group. Has written a brief for the development team.
        2. Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Completely redoing this site to make it more integrated with the Library site and WordPress.
        3. MPAL – Getting close to going live with redesign. A practicum student had done some usability testing, so John had some ideas from that and ideas/concerns from the librarians.  Based on that, he created some wireframes, which have now been distilled down to one wireframe.
      5. User Experience
        1. Room 220
        2. Data Registry – Involved with a Library group developing an index of data in the library and the corresponding contact person
        3. Facilities – Involved in mapping for patrons and universal design
    4.  Comments
      1. New book feature is buggy and has limited functionality for pulling books by fund, call number, location, etc.
      2. Funk Library homepage – Always wondered how effectively we link people to different resources and areas of support
      3. Libraries & Librarians – Gateway is focused on physical libraries. All libraries page is still the old site design.  It’s too hard to find librarians; it’s hard to find the librarian webpage, and the webpage is not well organized.
      4. John mentioned wanting to make the Library site more efficient with centralized pages/resources, when possible, and celebrating our uniqueness
  1. Approval of 2/14 minutes (taken by Kelli)
    1. Approved
  1. Collections discussion
    1. Wrap-up approvals discussion – autoships and publishers to remove – LSD librarians decided to not participate in autoships, at this time, since the time required to set-up the profile and consider overlap seemed to outweigh the time savings for the limited number of books from the 10 publishers identified for LSD. Sarah will communicate this decision to Lynn Wiley (and Mary Schlembach, just so PSED knows our decision).  LSD librarians decided to recommend removing Nova Science Publishers and Apple Academic Press from approval slips and from the PDA program.  Sarah will also communication this to Lynn Wiley and Mary Schlembach.
  1. College of Medicine update – Kelli, Erin, Peg, Ryan
    1. Medical and Engineering Librarian position has been posted. Closes April 27th.
    2. Working on serial transfers to medical fund
  1. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
    1. LSD – Sarah is meeting with John on Friday for quarterly division coordinator meeting, if anyone has comments or points that should be shared with him.
    2. Reference Management Team – The Library is moving to new chat software over the summer
    3. CDC
      1. A&I review – may not be an automatic cancellation, like the serials, but there will be a stronger push to really consider cancellations;
      2. Desiderata – one-time purchases that can be purchased with remaining collection money; let Kelli and Erin know
    4. LSSC – Erik Chapman will be serving on this committee now.
  1. Round Table
    1. We made it in the BHL newsletter again as one of the top contributor.
  2. Adjourn