SCOPA Meeting Minutes

SCOPA Meeting: 6 March 2000

Present: Cindy Crooker (recording), Ellen Doon, Erika Heinen, Tom Hyry, Stephanie Schmitt, Dajin Sun, Diane Turner

Absent: Calvin Hsu, Jennifer Kostelnik

Announcements

Tom reported that Jennifer had said the mentoring program was going well. She has had 2 more volunteers to be mentors, although she has not heard from any more potential mentees.

Erica reported that the list of SCOPA grant recipients was about to go out on YULIB-L. [The announcement came out on March 10th.]

Forums

At this point we do not have any forums scheduled for March. Debbie McGraw and someone from LMC (possibly Paul Conway, chair of the budget committee) are willing to give a forum on how the budget works. Debbie will contact Dajin on Wednesday, March 8th. Perhaps this forum can be scheduled for late March (or early April).

Mike Paciello, President of WebAble! Solutions, will speak on the topic of Web Accessibility on April 4th, at 2:00 p.m. This event is being cosponsored by WAG-TLC and the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs; the latter is contributing half of the $500 cost of this forum.

The Bob Strauss/David Walls forum on library preservation looks like it will happen in early April.

The forum about the University Archives Tercentennial has been scheduled for April 25th.

Tom is working with Scott Bennett on a possible forum about the migration to a new LMS (library management system). This has also been mentioned as an April forum.

Erika had talked to Paul Conway about her idea for forums on the state of the various Yale libraries, grouped by subject (arts, sciences, etc.). A panel of librarians could discuss developments in their libraries that perhaps aren't major enough to merit separate forums, but are nonetheless of interest to library staff. Paul had suggested that several forums could be organized topically, rather than by subject, and suggested the following topics:

  1. Migration to new LMS (library management system)
  2. From Selector to Shelf (process improvement)
  3. Library Budget
  4. Space Issues (including the Phase III renovation, the Divinity move, space issues at SSL & the Art & Architecture Library)

After discussing the two plans, the SCOPA members present decided that they preferred Erika's original concept to the idea of topical forums. Erika and Ellen (and any other interested SCOPA members) will plan something for later this semester (May/June).

Tom pointed out that SCOPA is committed to providing forums by internal and external speakers, although the majority have been internal for obvious reasons (cost, convenience, etc.).

Cindy had to leave, so the minutes were continued by ?

Respectfully submitted,

Cindy Crooker

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