Coastal Consortium Advisory Committee Meeting

July 25, 2001

Wilmington, NC

 Members Present: Lillian Brewington, Jeff Campbell, Robert Canida, Eloise Cave, Sue Cody, Arlene Hanerfeld, Geraldine Hebert, Dan Pfohl and Jean Sexton

 1.       Minutes of Last Meeting

          The minutes of the October 25, 2000 meeting were approved and the Agenda for the current meeting was approved after moving Item 2 and Item 3 to be discussed at 11:00 a.m.

2.                  Millennium Serials Beta Testing Update

The testing is over but it still freezes up at times.  Be aware of shortcuts even though  it saves time.    Arlene recommended setting up test records.  She is not 100% satisfied but it is an improvement.

 3.                  E-Journal Projects Update

E-journals will take some time to process.  Plans are to go through the list and add holdings to catalogs.  Dan will see if stats for  NC Live can be made available to the Consortium.  ERIC is available in full-text; however, it is expensive.  There is a considerable discount if you also have a subscription.  The advantages and disadvantages of SilverPlatter were also discussed.

 4.                  INNOPAC Enhancements, New Products, and Equipment purchases

Dan passed out a list of topics for discussion and feedback from the committee.  In reference to Item 2 & 3 from the list, Dan suggested that it is time that we should all consider changing our logins and passwords.  Logins should be forwarded to him as decisions are made.  For Items 9, 22 and 23, The Committee agreed to ask

INNOVATIVE to set up the title-level recall, Patron Function Report, and the EMAILOP.

 5.                  Additional Business

There will be a joint session at FSU on September 14 at 10:00 a.m.  One session will be for Millennium Serials and the other session will be for reviewing the loan rules.   Serials and Circulation staff are invited to attend.

 

There has been no answer from the directors concerning the proposal of cataloging electronic resources.  This will be investigated further.

 6.                  EBSCO Presentation and Question Session

Two sales representatives from EBSCO, Merrill Smith and David Goble,  made a presentation allowing time for a question and answer period.  The next release from EBSCO is due in December 2001 or January 2002.  Among the several changes, patrons will be able to move to the actual articles more quickly with less clicks.  If you subscribe to the feature, you will be able to go directly to the sites cited in  articles.  There will also be space to put in library holdings.