Minutes of the February 2, 2005 TERMinators meeting

In attendance: Mary Lehman, Linday Sharp, Mark Dehmlow, Nastia Guimareas, Kathy Ryan-Zuegner, Tom Lehman, Cheri Smith, Alan Krieger

Item #1 - Cheri's email to Collection Development Managers:

Cheri reserved the Notre Dame room in LaFortune. Cheri looking at getting a screen. Tom reserving laptop and projector from DCNS. Mark will talk to DCNS about borrowing a long length of ethernet cable.

Cheri will edit the email to include location information. Draft as proposed was accepted.

Tom will forward the email to the Change Form members that are not on the CDC list.

Item #2 - Review pending term changes and plan next steps:

Tom will get back to the people who proposed these changes to make sure they still want to change it.

1) From Sheri Jones and Alan Krieger, with support from others, a proposal to change Book and Journal terms from inverted to direct order, and to combine Etexts with Electronic books:

Current Terms:
Facet: Formats Term: Books, Electronic
Facet: Formats Term: Books, Print
Facet: Formats Term: Etexts
Facet: Formats Term: Journals, Electronic
Facet: Formats Term: Journals, Print

Proposed Terms:
Facet: Formats Term: Electronic books and texts
Facet: Formats Term: Electronic journals
Facet: Formats Term: Print journals
Facet: Formats Term: Printed books

Discussion:
Would the inverted list be better point of access for users as opposed to the standard order for electronic books and electronic journals? Since list of Terms is small on web pages, may not be a problem. We got into a discussion about the ordering of the Facets - could we change the order that the Facets appear? We would have to ask Rob. Why do we have the "print" designation? It could be important to have a section for printed things.

Decision: #1 is an acceptable suggestion, we will move forward.

4) From Laura Fuderer, change:

Facet: Subjects
Term: Language and literature, English and American

to

Facet: Subjects
Term: Language and literature, English

Discussion:
Would removing American disenfranchise American Lit students? Probably not too much. Would we want to alter the ordering of Language and Literature, [item] from inverted to standard order? No, the order seems to be fine inverted. Business and Engineering match.

Decision: #4 is an acceptable suggestion, we will move forward with it.

2) From Sheri Jones, a request to create a new Term:

Facet: Research Tools
Term: Internet megasites and search engines

Discussion:
TheTerm is an attempt to categorize items that just don't fit in other places. Is the Term megasite meaningful to users? How do you distinguish between other resources? Would directories, or another Term, be appropriate to describe these resources? The grouping of items like this makes sense, but what to call it? Do we want to use megasite or propose a different Term. Some of the group need more information from Sheri:

1. what Sheri wants to put in this category
2. why existing Terms are currently not sufficient for these sites

Should we adopt Terms like RIOs (Reusable Information Objects) and RLOs (Reusable Learning Objects)? Would portal be an appropriate Term to describe these? Do we want to consider asking users what Term they would use to describe these? How about information silos as a Term? Maybe we can call it megasite and have a teaching component to describe to users what the Terms is.

Decision: #2 we feel that we should go forward, but we need to get more information from Sheri Jones:

1. what Sheri wants to put in this category
2. why existing Terms are currently not sufficient for these sites If Sheri is still interested in the Term, we will move forward with the request.

3) From Parker Ladwig, a request to create a new Term:

Facet: Resource types
Term: Monographic series

Parker is using a list of monographic series on his site, will this fulfill his needs? Also, the Facet resource types no longer exists. The Term would most easily fit into Formats.

Decision: #3 ask Parker if the existing link he has on his page meets his needs.

When sending the proposals to NDLIBWWW for comments, Tom will send each of the four proposals in a separate email.

Mark Dehmlow, recorder