[Yulpub] Agenda for CDC Meeting, 22 March 2007

[Ann Okerson]

Public Services librarians may be interested in attending these demos at 
the CDC meeting on Thursday.  Please see below.  Hope some can make it, 
i.e., at least one from each major library in the Yale system.  Many of 
our libraries already have members on CDC, so you can pick up information 
from them, should you wish.  Cheers, Ann Okerson

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Dear CDC Members:  Here follows the agenda for Thursday, 22 March, 2:30 - 
4:00 p.m. in SML Room 409.  It promises to be very interesting, devoted to 
the high-end Tables of Contents/Enrichment-Enhancement Services available 
in today's library marketplace.

*We would welcome your input as to what other staff to invite to this 
viewing* and will be inviting all members of CoDGeR as well.

There will be two presentations:

1.  Our special Guest will be Peder Christiansen, Vice President of 
Bowker, doing an in-depth demonstration of Syndetics, which is a greatly 
enhanced verison of former Blackwell's service that we had looked at with 
interest (and nearly adopted) a few years ago.  Syndetics offers many 
grades of enhancement and functions by linking to titles through a 
library's OPAC. The demo will be "live" online.  The time allocated for 
this item is up to an hour.

2.  Our next presenter, once Mr. Christiansen has departed, will be Marcia 
Romanansky, taking us through Baker & Taylor's Title Source III, for which 
we have a limited site license via Acquisitions.  Marcia will describe how 
T3 is accessed and how it works.  The time allocated for this item is 
about 15-20 minutes.

3.  If time permits, we will discuss what next steps should be taken to 
make these types of "enhancements" available to our users.  My suggestion 
is that we appoint a small working group to present us with a report and 
recommendations, which could recommend for an appropriate service or offer 
reasons to take alternative paths.

[Bear in mind that just as we were planning to change to a new ILS from 
NOTIS, a CDC working group, which had consulted widely, recommended that 
Yale add Tables of Contents to its array of user offerings.  However, the 
timing was not right, given the extensive catalog migration that we knew 
would take place.  We have long said we would return to this topic.  That 
earlier report, much of it valid today, is available at: 
<http://www.library.yale.edu/CDCpublic/committees/documents/TOCreport.pdf>]

Thank you for your participation in this meeting.

Ann Okerson (for Christine deVallet and Haruko Nakamura, Co-Chairs, who
are away at this time)