October 10, 2008
Nylink Resource Sharing Discovery Working Group
Minutes from Conference Call October 10, 2008
Present: Donna Dixon and Jon Penn, Nylink; Maribeth Krupczak, New York State Library Division of Library Development; Susan Currie, Binghamton University.
The main agenda item for the call was to discuss roles for the group at the Resource Sharing Summit October 23-24. Maribeth, Susan, Cyril, Bart and Julie will be attending; regrets from Deb and Mary-Carol. On day 1 of the summit, both the delivery and discovery groups will be asked to report on their work over the past year. Donna will put together a few brief slides covering the original and revised charges, decision to do an environmental scan (i.e., discovery tool matrix), and present progress on that so far. The matrix will be posted on our wiki and we’ll ask for folks to keep it updated if it’s agreed to be a useful tool that we want to keep going.
Donna will contact Julie early next week to ask her to present and discuss the Resource Sharing principles that the group compiled, as part of the group report. She will also follow up with Cyril and Bart to recap and plan in person. Donna is finishing the discovery tool matrix over the next few days and will send it around to the group before posting on the wiki. Plan is to add a field for actual URLs of library sites using the various tools, and a field for special notes (for example, the State Library provides discounted pricing for WebFeat for interested NOVEL libraries, and uses WebFeat on its own site). (also carryover from last call, add status of implementation, and stated objectives if available)
Regarding the Open Mic, we’ve received just one submission so far that was unidentified. We brainstormed how to get more participation: Jon will get a list of the attendees and look at their websites to see if there are institutions that we can recruit. Donna will send out a reminder for submissions, and this time give some concrete examples of what we’re looking for.
As we discussed last time, Cyril will kick off the Open Mic with a modified version of his IDS presentation, and Donna will contact him early next week (Oct 14) to confirm this.
On the second day, the delivery and discovery groups will have breakout sessions that attendees can choose to attend. For the discovery group, we’ll create a list of provocative questions around discovery to facilitate the discussion, with the objective of taking the discussions we’ve had in our conference calls further in the community. Donna will draft a list of topics as thought starters for the group and send them around to begin building the list of questions. Discovery group members will be asked to staff a table each (if we have that many attendees in our breakout) and facilitate table discussions, with a reportout to the larger group to wrap up.
Recorder: Donna Dixon
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