Minutes of the August 15, 2006 TERMinators meeting

Present: Tom Lehman, Ben Heet, Nastia Guimaraes, Hector Escobar

Agenda: Finish applying guidelines to list of resources on the General & Multidisciplinary subject page.

Tom began the meeting by sharing a diagram on how the scope of a resource must relate to the scope of a subject page in order for that resource to be listed. The scope of a resource cannot be too narrow if it is to go an a general subject page. The medieval resources we pulled last week are the examples we usually come back to.

We started going through the list of resources where we left off last week. We disagreed on Historical Statistics of the U.S. Hector was adamant about keeping it on the General & Multi page. We spent a few minutes on this not sure what to do and Tom reminded us about the quidelines that we've pulled together over the last few weeks. We marked this as a question to come back to later. With the guidelines in mind we made quick work of the rest of the list.

Next we went through the resources that were previously undecided and marked with a ?. Discussion of AP Archive focused on format. We shouldn't show a preference to one format over another. Tom mentioned that a picture can be important to someone doing research just as a newspaper article, journal article, book or catalog record can be important. We decided that scope is the main factor and format should be irrelevant. We decided to keep AP Archive. This reasoning carried over to catalogs, dictionaries, biographies, etc.

Next Steps:

• Tom will summarize the list of resources we decided to keep and remove
• Meet with Linda and explain the guidelines we are using for review
• Talk with Sherri and get on the agenda for the next reference department meeting. They'll certainly have something to say, especially about the General & Multi page.

Recorder: Ben Heet