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Spring NORDOCS Meeting, 2007
05.02.07
Navarro College Library
Corsicana, Texas
Fall 2007 Meeting
- will probably be at Ft. Worth Public Library
- tentatively November 8th, Thursday
officer election: wait until Fall |
Area Libraries News / Conference Reports
Tom Rohrig, TX Tech
- state library has had a lot of renovations
- Penny Morava is handling disposal lists at Tech
- been there a year (previously in Circulation)
- document space recovery committee is looking at options
- de-duping (dumping duplicates)
- digitizing paper
- keeping fiche
- look at housing with some selectives or Tech Law Library
- talked about shared depository w/ TSLAC
- (U of NM in talks about shared depository/regional)
- Cindy Etkins at GPO suggested extended de-duping
- looking at non-depositories for space, but may be an issue
- may get offsite housing at Levelland (middle school)
- shared computer grid for projects
- faculty members can be strong advocates to have for championing resources, etc.
- Bill Suddoth at North Carolina has a lot of storage space; would we be interested in similar?
- advantages: immediate storage, boxes must be labeled with contents, out of our area sooner
- copy of disposal list in the box for inventory (still send this list electronically)
- Tom will send out a survey about this
Tom Lindsay, UTA
- knows of a few cheap places to stay/eat in Arlington, VA, for ALA
- Roslin Stop, Clarendon, Highlander Motor Inn, La Casta Verde
- FDLP spring notes/info now posted on the FDLP Desktop website
- Benton Harbor Public Library (MI)
- this year's depository library of the year winner
- @ FDLP, talked about mining community resources
- try to answer every reference question with a gov doc (Tom wants to start doing this at his library)
- Benton Harbor = large percentage of population is minority/poverty
- $17,000 total acquisitions budget for all library
- 16 staff, 3 MLS
- studied their community to determine their needs (see handout from this presentation on FDLP website)
- William H. Turri now acting Public Printer
- change in assessment practices
- general move toward more library CMS (content management system) websites
- FDLP program: Care and Weeding of a Collection (Utah)
- 5% of the collection; undergoing renovations
- moving late 1800's docs to special collections
- UTA taken out 1,000 shelves (10 ranges) in last 10 years
- alot of weeding; superceded list = use keep current year/pdf; looks good on stats list
David Rankin, TX A&M Commerce
- TX Bureau of Prisons will pick up boxes of books , and inmates will recycle the materials
- have new library director
- wants David to weed 20-30% of the collection
- very large, old collection = huge project (70% depository)
- can you drop print and/or fiche in favor of electronic-only? (when same content)
- Tom Rohrig will find this out
- U of AZ has done a lot of this
- consortium with UNT / TWU --would love to talk about it
- Phoenix meeting in DFW (formerly AHE, Alliance for Higher Education); May 30th, sending several people
- interested in possible partnership with UNT on the A-Z stuff; own a lot of older Agri documents
- MARCIVE list of records - David R. checks in stacks what format they have items in (de-dup at that point)
- UNT has an auto-report as we receive records (generated by Tech Services in iii) -- for de-dups
- Andrea/Betty update links in records and un-suppress records
- UNT doesn't have item records created automatically (student does this)
- we may need to look at changing that
Susan Humphrey, Navarro College
- county trustees helped her library move last year
- new director, wants to go as electronic as possible
- US Codes/Statutes moving to GovDocs from Law Library
- federal reporter 1/2/3 = need to find a home
- acts as the community law library
- 5 staff for library: director, 2 MLS, 2 paraprofessionals, 1 part-timer for evening hours
- open 7:30a - 11p (weekdays) and Sundays 5-8p
- discussion about cafes in libraries
- director wants her to travel more
- Lexis-Nexis Academic has legal materials
- she heard that as of July, shepardizing for all states
Clarice Luce & Starr Hoffman, UNT
- problem with faculty requiring "only non-electronic resources" when many of our articles are delivered only electronically
- need to better educate faculty about this
- report on new GovDocs Head starting in August, Suzanne Sears of Tulsa City-County Public Library
- A-Z Digitization project (retro cataloging project now digitizes all pre-1960 documents)
Susan Black, Longview Public Library
- backlog, 27 boxes weeded (LaTourneau)
- she's a new documents librarian
- may attend Interagency Seminar this summer (Starr is going either this summer or next)
- 30% depository
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