Members attending: Susan Gallagher (UIS), Kristin E. Martin (UIC), Dennis McGuire (COL), Lori Murphy (DPU), Catherine Suchy (JOL), Cheryl Wegner (NBY), John Whisler (EIU)
Members absent: Heather Parisi (DOM), Emily Prather-Rodgers (NCC)
IUG Liaison: Ted Schwitzner (ISU)
Staff attending: Casey Sutherland
IUG General updates: met on Jan 18th.
Updates from CARLI: still working on getting HathiTrust records loaded into the Universal Catalog
Discovery Forum: IUG members have been asked to provide seed questions to vendors. It will be a day when libraries can come and learn about discovery systems. Four – committed vendors will present: EBSCO (EBSCO Discovery Service), ProQuest/Serials Solutions (Summon), OCLC (World CAT Local), and Ex Libris (Primo)..Yesterday Kristin Hammerstrand sent out announcement about patron driven acquisitions project for print books. It was sent to I-Share liaisons. Results from fall E-book forum were used to create questionnaires for e book vendors at midwinter. Eventually this will lead to RFPs for e-books for CARLI.
Update as ELUNA member: ELUNA is preparing a ballot for enhancements for Voyager 9, with voting in March. There are 35 enhancement options for cataloging. Voyager 8 had its major enhancement of global changes, so many of these other enhancements have been put on hold. Over 300 items are on enhancement list. The mechanism for I-Share members to contribute their preferences for enhancement to CARLI has not yet been determined, but more information will be forthcoming. Library who are individual members of ELUNA can vote independently.
Next Meeting: Day, Date, Location Feb. 21, 1-2 PM phone conference.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 A.M.