[Imc] Librarians meeting minutes 5/24/01

[jacobs]

IMC Librarians’ Meeting Minutes for May 24, 2001

Attending: Mike Brunelle, James Jacobs (note taker), Meg Miner, Greg Wolf, 
Jason Morris, Mike Perry, one BIG can of Chef Boyardee and Seth Davis in 
spirit.

Meeting came to order at 5:15pm.

I. Database discussion:

Mike P. and Seth D. continue to work on the database for subject guides 
written in PHP.

Mike B. is interested in putting together a database for the physical 
collection and patron base.

We looked at Bob’s database and came to the conclusion that it would continue 
to be valuable for the archive.  However, the creation of a more robust (sorry 
Ellen!) database using some type of SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL) is necessary in 
order to have relationality between the library collection, patron base, and 
subject guides.  The Mikes will look into SQL tutorials and will forward those 
urls to the list for those that are interested.  Getting the SQL databases up 
and functioning will take some more study.  It is hoped to have the subject 
guides and library database up and running by the end of the summer or early 
fall.

 II. Jason M. is working with Paul K. on the media archive.  No timeline was 
suggested but work continues on the issues of a physical home for the archive 
as well as the best way to represent it (by format, subject, date
).

III. Meg M. has volunteered to stamp the journals.  She had a good suggestion 
for the collection.  It would be valuable to have the 3 printed versions of 
the shelf list in a 3-ring binder: one each sorted by Author, Title and 
subject area.  While this is not such an urgent need right now, as our 
collection grows, it will become more important to display our collection in 
multiple ways.

IV. Greg’s focus is on the ‘zine collection.  He has begun the organization 
process according to title, author/publisher, and contact information.  There 
are several fuzzy areas that remain including definition of “’zine”—many in 
our collection are not produced locally but still are considered ‘zines for 
their independent production--collection development for ‘zines and database 
access.  He will continue to organize the ‘zines and do some research into 
‘zine collection development including looking into Factsheet Five, a ‘zine 
review (url: http://www.factsheet5.com/).

V. Jason brought up a very good point. He staffs the IMC on Tuesday nights and 
would like to have tasks for those times. He wondered what jobs were needed in 
the library. I showed him how to process books (date due slips and checkout 
cards).  The issue of infrastructural tasks for staffers will be raised at the 
steering group meeting on Sunday.

VI. Meeting adjourned at 6:20PM.
Respectfully submitted,

James Jacobs

James R. Jacobs 
Graduate Reference Assistant 
Education/Social Science Library
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign                        
Home: 303B1 Paddock Drive  
Savoy, IL 61874           
(217)359-9283
jacobs at uiuc.edu
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