D&D minutes 4/30/09

D&D April 30, 2009
Present: Peter, Dan, Shawn, Laura, Scott, Daisy, Lyman, Elizabeth, Donna

1. Proposal from Birdie on TSWG recommendation on merging Dana and BH duplicate bibliographic records in Voyager.
May have ILL implications.
May have implications for order records—bib records are attached to order records.
Is this really a question for D&D?
As far as patron discovery and delivery, this proposal sounds fine with us.
For those records for items that are online, we already have only one record. This proposal only affects records for print materials.
It would be nice if there was only one record for serials that are available in print and online.

2. Invite someone from CTL to D&D
Most of what we talk about (see item #1 above) wouldn’t be very interesting to them.
We’ll be sure to include them in issues where their input would be beneficial.

3. D&D Membership
Should we have rotating membership on D&D to keep the committee fresh and ideas percolating.
If people want to rotate off the committee, let Peter know and he will work with Mara, etc to find a replacement.
We miss Winona and would like someone from that world on this committee, maybe in the fall.

4. Linksource
Dan and Donna were looking at how well Linksource works. Other things came up, but that was the root of it.
Shawn doesn’t think that the reporting functions are much help in evaluating Linksource.
Shawn has been testing linksource over the last week. He’s been taking webinars and courses. A lot of our links aren’t functioning properly. Maybe because EBSCO isn’t updating the linksource links. e.g. change in ingenta link wasn’t updated, California Digital Library doesn’t have a link.
Lyman and Scott have been identifying things that aren’t working in Linksource. e.g. links to IEEE journals don’t seem to work. Lexis Nexis only gets you to the journal, but the stuff they get you to isn’t that helpful. DOAJ journals also only go to the journal level. Gale is also reputed to be difficult.
Sometimes Smartlinks don’t work.
Lyman and Scott will write up their findings over the summer.
Does EBSCO linksource have a declining user base? Are most libraries using SFX or Serials Solutions?

5. Handheld device
Next year’s class will have even more students using mobile devices. Systems needs a handheld to ensure that library databases are optimized for this format. Lyman will have Paul put through an order.

6. Icons in test catalog
See http://voyager.uvm.edu:8080
Peter will write a note to liber and danews announcing this change.

7. OCLC
Worldcat is now pulling item information from local catalogs. If you look at the University of Delaware Library you can see how it works http://www.lib.udel.edu/
Peter is getting this set up for UVM Libraries.