Discovery & Delivery Council minutes; 2/19/09

Present: Peter, Donna, Laura, Fran, Dan, Lyman, Scott, Selene

1. General updates:

• Peter showed the note on social networking tools for books & film that Selene added to the Libraries’ Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=51124206465#/note.php?note_id=65070899950
• The Libraries now has a Goodreads account: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2045972-UVM-Libraries (we’ll add this as an application to the Facebook account)
• Peter reminded us about the blog, for now the primary audience is library colleagues.

2. Text it!

• Enthusiastic support for the new “text it” feature created by Lyman in the library catalog, which allows users to text title, call number, and location information to their cell phone.
• We discussed a proposal to change the link to read: “text a call number,” but decided in favor of the current simplicity.
• Peter will send a notice informing the Libraries of the change and then Lyman will make the change go live.

3. Linksource

• The Linksource evaluation subgroup hasn’t met yet.
• Scott reported on an incidence of the “full-text linking” (different from a full-text PDF) not working when Find it @ UVM does, in Sociological Abstracts (CSA). “Full-text linking” is misleading. Can we eliminate it? Scott will follow through with Tina & Karl.
• Dan went to the Linksource webinar, but had to leave before they got to the short section on reporting. He will follow up directly with the trainer to see if we can get more clarity on this.
• Find it @ UVM enabled in Google Scholar? Yes!
• Responsibility for A-Z/linksource administration remains unassigned, but should be resolved shortly.

4. Open access

• We will do some research to ensure that all major open access journal packages are in the library catalog; Dan volunteered to begin research on this.
• We will also work with liaisons to solicit key open access journals in specific disciplines that might not be represented at present. Peter will talk to Jeanene about this.

5. Shibboleth

• The campus has adopted Shibboleth, a central authentication system. Remote users who log into webmail or another affiliate resource will stay logged into the proxy server [did I get this right?]
• We may be able to make some databases (e.g Science Direct) work with this. Pro: Easier remote access; Con: Users might be confused by having to log into some databases and not others.
• We’ll talk more about this at the next meeting. A key question: how many/which databases would work with Shibboleth?

Examples of Social Networking Add-ons to Library Site

We have received suggestions from both inside and outside D&D that the library feature one or more book-centered social networking sites within our libraries' presence. Such sites allow users to read about books and discuss them with others. Our approach is to link to some of these sites via the UVM Libraries' Facebook page. We hope that you will explore one or more of these sites and let us know what you think.

One such site is called Goodreads, and it allows one to write reviews of books you're reading or have read, and engage in conversation with friends about them. One can also look at what others have said about books you're thinking of reading to get a sense if it's a book you might like.

Similarly, LibraryThing serves as a social networking site for books and their readers, allowing one to rate books, write reviews, read others' thoughts about books, etc. but it also serves as a tool to catalog one's own personal library.

Metacritic serves as a social networking site for films, DVDs, music, and television, and thus might appeal to the users who frequent our media holdings. Metacritic compiles published reviews from significant reviewing sources (New York Times, Salon, New York Daily News, etc.) in addition to allowing one to write reviews and read those of others.

Finally, within Facebook itself, Visual Bookshelf and weRead can be added to one's page to easily engage in interactive discussion about the books you're reading.

Please explore these tools and let us know if you find them useful.

D&D minutes 2/5/09

Present: Peter, Donna, Laura, Fran, Dan, Lyman, Scott

1. Ebsco Webinar
Still not sure who will be in charge of LinkSource.
Waiting for structural changes in tech services.

2. E-Books/Hathi trust
http://www/hathitrust.org
Hathi trust books don't have MARC records, making them more challenging to move into Voyager. Disposition to back burner.

3. Limit Voyager searches to last 30 days or last 60 days
http://library.uta.edu/
Guy working in at UT Arlington has a new book list that works off of Voyager and allows limiting by date. He has recreated the Voyager look and feel for this option.
Very nice, but not a high priority at the moment.

4. Link from New Books records to Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/
Others: http://metacritic.com, http://librarything.com
Content of goodreads is not for a general audience.
Maybe this is something for the Libraries Facebook page? Load the iRead or Visual Bookshelf application in the Libraries Facebook account.
Let's talk about this some more.

5. D&D Blog
We're posting minutes in the spirit of transparency with the intent of pushing the envelope in thinking about our patrons
Will put minutes on the blog. Minutes are aimed at Library employees