July 23, 2004 - Peter's Meeting Notes

Attendees: Bruce Barron, Ven Basco, Jane DeBellis, Peter McKay, Bill Modrow, Steve Morris, Sarah Philips, Pam Tucker, Brenda Wright

Action Items

1. I will serve as Chair for two years to preserve continuity. We will elect a Vice Chair after the first year.

2. Next Meeting: Monday, August 16th at 2PM. I will arrange conference call.

3. Brenda is taking notes. I will post on our Web site. Responsibility for minutes will be rotated alphabetically by institution. Bruce (FAU) is next.

4. I will update Web site.

5. I will send a list of Business Databases to Monica after the members review the list on the FCLA Web site.

6. I will send copies of the Charge and the spreadsheets listing licensing fees and usage stats.

7. I will review the RDS databases and the FirstSearch databases. I will find out how much money we can save by cutting Business & Industry and retaining TableBase. Everyone strongly agrees that TableBase is a valuable source that is incorporated into instruction. TableBase is the only one of the six that has strong support.

8. Database reviews or preliminary paragraphs will be sent to me. I will circulate to the Team members. We will use them to rank the databases.

9. We will work on Charges 4 & 5 later.