Present:  Susan Burns, Karen Goodell, Ruth Hall, Phyllis Harvey, Natalee Hattig, Dennis Peterson, Dr. Glenda Wiese  
Meeting Time:  10:09 a.m. – 11:07 a.m.

Aim for Meeting

• Weekly departmental meeting.

Updates from Library Faculty
Professor Peterson – Director

• Completed the August-November 2004 President’s report.
• Reported on progress of the Palmer Health Sciences Library FY 2004 Assessment Review.
• Reported on discussion in the Educational Leadership Council meeting. 
  • Implementation of All School Assembly programs once each term.
  • Board of Trustees meeting schedule 04-05 February 2005 in San Diego.
• Received “The Library as Place” DVD of a joint two day conference hosted by the National Library of Medicine and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries in November 2003. Previewing the DVD, a number of excellent presentations were made about the Library’s role in fostering a learning discovery and research environment, and noted that architect Shirley Dugdale, Palmer College’s consultant for the programmatic design of the new Library building, was one of the invited speakers.
• Discussed the relationships of CLIBCON, ACC Libraries Group and CLS with a idea to evolve-dissolve CLIBCON into ACC Libraries Group. Proposed the ACC Libraries Group sponsoring an ACC session of presentations and posters.

Assistant Professor Burns – Cataloging

• Continuing to do both original and copy cataloging of the collection.

Instructor Goodell - Information & Instruction

• Will be teaching a graduate research class with Dr. Hondras in the Research Department.
• Continuing to revise course assignments for Library 110.
• Working on a new course book for the transition of Library 110 to 1^st trimester.
• Three replacement PC workstations have been installed in the 3^rd floor Reference area.

Assistant Professor Hall - Cataloging & Processing

• The 06 January 2005 BCR workshop on Cataloging: CD-ROMS, Multimedia and Software in Iowa City was cancelled due to weather conditions and will be rescheduled.
• Technical Library Assistant Marcia Wheeler is working on the CTL materials cataloging project.
• The Library Holiday party is this Friday, January 7^th,  7:00-10:00 p.m. at Fulton’s Landing.

Associate Professor Harvey – Acquisitions, Serials & Electronic Resources

• The transition of Acquisitions assignments is going well.
• The DVD player has been installed on Library Assistant Patricia Peters PC workstation.
• If there are any linking problems with online journals, please contact Ms. Harvey. Problems may occur more often because of the new calendar and subscription year.
• Completed Webcast online training with EBSCO A-to-Z online journals management.
• Continue to review the weekly Majors New Books List for purchases.
• Continuing to order books for Palmer Florida Library collection.
• The Reference PC workstations are bumping students off during searches. Should the Library consider installing Word on Reference PC workstations for written student assignments?

Instructor Hattig - Access

• Library Supervisor Teresa Maness will be processing Document Delivery requests.

Professor Wiese - Special Collections & Archives

• Library Assistant Sonnet Busen is processing the Dr. Esther Mork donation.
• Library Assistant Culley Smith continues to process chiropractic historian Russell Gibbons' manuscript donation.
• Processing will begin on the Dr. Ted Schrader manuscript collection.
• Reviewing several recently received boxes of donated items from Dr. Joe Keating.
• A PC workstation for public use in the Reading Room was installed. Needs to have Microsoft Office installed on this computer.
• A barcode reader will be installed in Special Collections on a PC workstation. Technical Library Assistant Cely Pollitz will work in Special Collections on Monday

Discussion points

• Discussion of “Library as Place” conference DVD presentations.
• Discussed evolving-dissolving CLIBCON into ACC Libraries Group.
• Discussion on reasons PC workstations are bumping students out their database searches.

Action Steps for Library Faculty

• Needs to have Microsoft Office installed on this computer.
• A barcode reader need to be installed in Special Collections. 

Aim for Next Week's Meeting

• Approval of Minutes for 02, 09 and 16 December 2004.
• Forward Agenda items to Mr. Peterson.
• Continued discussion on specified points.

Calendar & Deadline Dates - Review Departmental Calendar in Outlook

• 16 Feb 2005 – BCR Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa – Ms. Hall, Ms. Wheeler
• 17-20 Mar 2005 - RAC/ACC Conference, Las Vegas - Mr. Peterson
• 07-12 Apr 2005 - ACRL National Conference, Minneapolis - Mr. Peterson
• 12-14 May 2005 – LOEX National Conference, Louisville, KY – Ms. Goodell
• 14-19 May 2005 - MLA Annual Conference, San Antonio
• 19-22 May 2005 - NASIG Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN - Ms. Harvey
• 16-18 June 2005 - WFC Biannual Congress, Sydney AUS - Dr. Wiese
• 23-29 June 2005 - ALA Annual Conference, Chicago

Sue Lazenby, Library Secretary