Council of State University Libraries, Florida
OPAC Subcommittee of the Public Services Planning Committee
Teleconference Meeting, Thursday, February 11, 2010 - Noon to 1:30
Number: 888-808-6959, Conference Code: 5210528
Note: The meeting will be held by phone conference. There is also an Elluminate session:
http://elm.elluminate.com:80/UniversityOfFlorida/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1247970828653
Minutes
In attendance
Jeannette Cox FAMU
Bruce Barron FAU
Danielle Rosenthal FGCU
George Pearson FIU
Bridgette Birmingham FSU
Jon Lutz FSU Law
Nancy Spaid NCF
Min Tong UCF
Colleen Seale UF
Marina Salcedo UF HSC
Patti Morgan UF Law
Barbara Tuck UNF
Susan Silver USF
Douglas Low UWF
TSPC Liaison – Jimmie Lundgren
FCLA -- Josh Greben, Ned Stewart, Jean Moises, Gerald Snyder, Jean Phillips, Pamela
Mydock
*** = permanent agenda items
1. Approval of minutes from the last meeting ***
2. Approval of agenda with additions ***
3. FCLA Update:
a. Course Reserves – The course reserves enhancement is just about
finalized. Josh demonstrated how it will work. Committee members were
very impressed with the way it searches and displays. There are numerous
search options, the facets work well, and the interface looks like the rest of
Mango. The link in Mango is another tab. Updates will be every 20
minutes. Aleph is still the backbone and nothing changes with data entry.
Each library may indicate when it wishes to work with FCLA to go live
with this enhancement.
b. OSTI Records - OSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
records are available in the Union test catalog. These are links to full text
documents that are not available as regular government documents from
GPO. Each library may select to have the records included in their Mango
instance. Here is the website for more OSTI information.
http://www.osti.gov/
c. FCLA is also making some changes in how digital collections appear in
the catalog. More information will be forthcoming.
4. Business:
a. Formal voting procedure for Subcommittee- George – The Committee
voted to follow the procedures of other SUL committees for formal votes
– one vote for one library.
b. Discussion and vote on motion for new procedure for OPAC
enhancements - George
The motion is as follows:
“In voting for enhancements to the OPAC, the Subcommittee will abide by the
procedure approved by the PSPC on March 26, 2006. That procedure is as
follows:
Each OPAC Subcommittee member will cast 1 (one) vote for an OPAC
enhancement to be given priority for development by FCLA. OPAC
Subcommittee members will record their institution's vote for an OPAC
enhancement on the OPAC Enhancement List on Google docs. NOTE: Each SUL
institution, the Health and Law Libraries, and FCLA have one vote.
There will be a total of 19 votes cast to determine the priority listing of OPAC
enhancements to be recommended by the subcommittee.”
The Committee decided by unanimous vote to accept the motion except
that each committee member will have three (3) votes. There will be a
total of 57 votes cast. The votes should be cast by this weekend.
c. Patti Morgan from UF Law will be the new TSPC Liaison and will take
over at the March TSPC meeting.
5. TSPC Update – Jimmie Lundgren sent a TSPC update by email. It is copied here.
In relation to prioritizing the enhancements list, I would like to mention that the TSPC
2009 action plan’s first item called for us to, “Continue to work with FCLA and the OPAC
Subcommittee to improve access to information via Mango/Endeca: Identify and
recommend further enhancements to Mango/Endeca to both FCLA and the OPAC
Subcommittee, such as more frequent updating of content, expanding browsing
indexes, etc.” The “In-process request link” is also highly regarded and being worked on
by some TSPC members.
Single Bib. A TSPC task group is actively working with FCLA to optimize the specifications
for merging the records. Some note fields may be tagged with a subfield for the owning
institution or moved to the holdings records to ensure their retention and minimize
problems in the resulting merged bibliographic records. These are being examined.
OSTI records. FCLA will talk about this today. As background information, per Betsy
Simpson last Nov., “UF’s Dean is planning to propose that the MARC records for full text
(pdf) resources available from the US Dept of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI) be loaded into the UF Aleph client or directly into Endeca. Either
way, the records could be set up to display in institutional Mango’s as desired. The
initial load equals approximately 209,000 records with 1,300 records added monthly.
For more information, see http://www.osti.gov/marcrecords . A group of SUL
Government Documents librarians met recently and many of them voiced enthusiasm
for loading the records.” At UF we have recently been working with FCLA in testing
these record loads and resolved some record quality details. UF leans towards loading
and refreshing the records directly in Mango.
6. CSUL Update – no report
Next Meeting – March 11, 2009, noon-1:30 PM
OPAC Development Priority List
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amvpmk5-
Nm76dEFVWkF4czdBNWxjeFRzSTMzQXhpTHc&hl=en
Test catalogs discussed during this meeting.
Course Reserves OPAC:
http://testcat.fcla.edu/reserves/ux.jsp
OSTI Records
http://testcat.fcla.edu/catalog/ux.jsp
OPAC Priority List:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amvpmk5-
Nm76dEFVWkF4czdBNWxjeFRzSTMzQXhpTHc&hl=en
OSTI Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
The OSTI records are derived from the Information Bridge metadata.
FCLA Mango Webpage
http://fclaweb.fcla.edu/mango