Attendees: Trish Akin - Oak Park Walt Baumann - DePaul Marjorie Bengtson - U of I James Chipala - Poplar Creek Beth Clausen - Northwestern Gloria Hamilton - U of C Raizel Liebler - John Marsahall Kevin McClure - Chicago-Kent Bob Pruter - Lewis U Aimee Quinn - U of I Barbara Sheffki - Poplar Creek John Schuler - U of I RoseAnn Vonesh - Oak Park
Notes from Kevin McClure:
--- Notes from "around the table"
Kevin, Chicago-Kent College of Law -- no major new projects underway. Working on weeding federal fiche, cataloging UN materials into LC, and adding links to electronic versions into existing catalog records for print docs.
Univ. Chicago - Maria and Gloria both attended. Maria will take on more oversight of the gov docs collection. The collection is about to lose a substantial amount of space to offices. Currently weeding the collection down to one on-campus copy, in coordination with D'Angelo Law Library
Bob Pruter, Lewis Univ. - Position moving toward reference with less emphasis on government documents. Heavy weeding of paper collection is ongoing.
Beth Clausen, Northwestern - The gov docs department has hired a new international documents librarian. They are currently searching for a new federal documents assistant. The University Librarian is retiring next year.
Oak Park Public - Now receiving little in paper. Currently weeding CD-ROM and paper docs collections
John Shuler, UIC - Gov docs department is now three years into working from a merged desk with reference, though it remains a separate department. They have a new map librarian, who was previously head of the American Geographic Society library in Wisconsin. UIC is close to a deal with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (which has been merged into CATS - Chicago Area Transit Study) to take over their library. Will start receiving their 40,000 volumes soon and will receive subsequent material on something like a depository basis. Part of an overall shift in emphasis away from federal and more toward state, local, and regional documents. Census project undertaken in 1990 probably won't be repeated for 2000 census. Loss of Geography Department and poor funding have made it difficult to pull the needed institutional resources together.
Raizel Liebler, John Marshall Law - Raizel works with Anne Abramson and will be taking over more of a gov docs role. JMLS has searches on for both a new dean and a new library director.
Walt, DePaul Law - New library director is in place. Library has instituted a liaison program. The law school's Human Rights Institute is involved in reconstructing three law school libraries in Iraq.
---Comments on Illinois Depository Libraries Meeting (September)
Aimee reported on the September meeting in Springfield for Illinois depository libraires. TC Evans of the GPO spoke and took questions. The meeting was brief but well attended.
---Comments on Depository Library Council Meeting (October) and FDLP issues
The DLC meeting in Washington devoted time for depository librarians to prepare their "vision" for their role in the FDLP. Aimee thought the meeting reflected more acceptance by librarians that we're going into an online program, and less clinging to reliance on print.
John and Aimee agreed that the pilot project on email reference, which UIC participated in, shows that the idea works. John Shuler thought that institutionally, GPO failed to seize on the idea that it could be discussed at the October meeting as a model for how depository libraries could work together. DLC wants to see email reference fully implemented. Now that the concept is proven, depositories need to embrace the kind of organizational work that is needed to pull it off. Aimee noted that depository librarians still tie themselves to collections rather than marketing themselves as experts. Need to move focus from containership to expertise.
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Walt brought up the two dates in May , May 5 or 12, that Julie suggested for the Fall meeting. Bob Pruter pointed out that we can't make a final decision till we know when the DLC meeting will be happening. Aimee reminded us that Sally Holterhoff would also like to host a future meeting in Valparaiso.
At about 5:30PM we adjourned & several folks went for dinner at a nearby restaurant.