BHLStaffCallJan2009

January 12, 2009
10 a.m Eastern (3 p.m. London)
BHL Staff Call

Agenda (If we really want to keep this an hour [Actually 62 minutes and 30 seconds] - I have made suggested time limits for total discussion per item. Seems kinda UNREALISTIC to me. Someone edit to make this work... Please. - SCP)

*Volunteer for co-note taker/reviewer of notes (30 seconds)
*Scheduling calls - standing time? Monthly? Suggestions? (2 minutes)

1. Round Robin Updates - Status of your work (10 minutes)

2. Wonderfetch (tm) Success stories (10 minutes)

3. Tool review: (10 Minutes)
a. Serial Bid List status and need for a separate call or discussion?
- Matt P. suggests 2-4 interested people get together via email to craft language for bid definitions, bid issues, and the "box".
b. Monograph DeDuper status and need for a separate call or discussion?

• We may have discovered an issue with the deduper tool involving multiple editions of the same work. I will bring this up at the call and we can either discuss it or decide to deal with it offline. John M, NYBG

c. Portal editing still in Beta?

4. Topic review: (15 minutes)
a. Who is scanning what now? - Need to keep a list of changing, shifting themes?
b. Scans to harvest from IA - criteria for selection. Well, I'll be, if we look at some of the things that other IA libraries scanned that seem on topic would not necessarily be in the call number ranges of the items being scanned in the BHL partners! How do we advise the computer choosing to harvest goodies from IA?

5. Updates from Nov. Metadata meeting: (10 minutes)
Report if you are working on/completed your assigned tasks
Nov2008ActionItems

6. Special requests: (5 minutes)
Status? Updates? Thoughts?

7. Vetted taxon bibliographies and how to best use them for the BHL - let's brainstorm. 10 min. Tom Garnett