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Minutes of the November 21, 2006 TERMinators meeting

Present: Chris, Ben, Hector, Mary, Tom

We discussed the rotating TERMinators' membership. The plan was to rotate some members every six months, and re-evaluate TERMinators' experience again in Oct. 2007. We are seriously overdue. Current members, with committee start date (other than Tom and Mary who provide continuity):

  • Nastia (Sept. 2005--filled Cody's term)
  • Ben (Oct. 2005)
  • Chris (Oct. 2005)
  • Marina (Oct. 2005)
  • Hector (June 2006)

We decided that since TERMinators has largely completed its major projects and isn't meeting very often, we'd not rotate unless we took on a new project.

Tom mentioned Cheri's request to replace "Style guides" with "Citation tools" so that bibliographic management tools such as RefWorks would appear in the same list as style guides. Tom will send the proposal to NDLIBWWW.

We discussed the status of the proposal to delete resources that didn't fit our criteria for resources on General pages from the General and Multidisciplinary View all pages after passing review on NDLIBWWW. Carole had suggested deleting additional resources. Hector polled Reference, who concurred with removing the following resources:

  • Archives USA
  • Encyclopedia Americana 1999
  • Center for Research Libraries catalog
  • EBSCOhost

Tom will send a follow up to NDLIBWWW to let people know about the additional resources, giving two weeks for comments. The Gen/Mul resources to be removed will be removed after finals (late December).

We began a discussion of Cheri's comments on the Social Sciences (General) page. She had reviewed it awhile back and stated that some of the resources, such as PsycInfo and Education Abstracts wouldn't belong under our criteria, but are the best resources for those areas. She suggested that if you take them away, you have a page very much like the Gen/Mul page, in which case why do you need Soc Sci Gen?

We felt that the Arts/Hum, Soc Sci, and Sci/Tech general pages are useful for cross disciplinary topics. Tom handed out a page showing the resources we had decided should be kept on the four general pages, which illustrates the degree of overlap among the resources. Tom will talk to Cheri to better understand her views on the purpose of the general pages and what resources should be on them.

We discussed maintenance of the general pages, thinking it would be a good idea to remind subject librarians once a year to review their pages. Who is responsible for the general pages? We decided to ask Scott to make provision for the review to take place.

-- Tom