Present: Carol Turner, Jan Swanbeck, Carol Drum, Rich Bennett, David Hickey, Gary Cornwell

1) PS Web Page

Carol Turner said that she and Cynthia Bowker have been working on the Public Services web page. The objective is to provide useful information to the staff. She is still adding information to it and discussed where certain things will be located, i.e.: minutes of PSC and PSSC meetings will be part of the “Committees” link. She asked if anyone had ideas of what else should be included on the page.
Several committee members offered suggestions, such as committee reports, the public service mission and vision statements, printable library handouts, information on distance learning, etc. Carol said a link to the distance learning and outreach page will be added.
Cynthia and David Hickey will look into linking the Circ. Manual to the page so staff members can easily access it. They will also see if hyperlinks can be added to the Table of Contents to allow staff members to easily “jump” to specific sections of the manual.
Carol asked that any other suggestions be sent to her.
Webpage

A discussion about the public service goals and objectives was held. Any updates, deletions or changed should be sent to Carol. Goals
One item discussed involved developing more pathfinders and subject guides. Jan Swanbeck said that if the library decides to subscribe to CORC, that service has many pathfinders. One thing to research is how many patrons really use the pathfinder capabilities. Rich will find out how Suzi Shaw is coming on adding counters to the web pages.
Rich suggested that the most helpful thing is for subject specialists to identify key resources to help in improving the database locator. Carol also said that everyone needs to make sure their pages and links are working and up-to-date.
Gary wondered if there was a way to create a list of every electronic journal that the library can access. Rich said on the E-Journals web page many of the database publishers list which publications they offer.

Carol said with the expansion of the E-reserve service this is going to be a very busy semester.
E-Reserves

Gary announced that scheduling for the Reference Conference Room and Room 148 is now being done through Outlook. He suggested that staff members attend Stacy Wall’s next Outlook class to learn how to schedule rooms.  The Library West and Smathers conference rooms, as well as the West Staff Lounge, are also scheduled with Outlook now.

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