March 25, 2009

SIL BHL Staff Meeting

25 March 2009

• Suzanne will meet with Vicki to discuss the LSSI planning
• Martin discover cost of page insertion
• Martin: discover the philosophy of the Frankenbook
• Keri/Bianca: Frankenbooks on the BHL Staff call
• Martin/Keri: work on Seidell budget
• Marcia discusses with Vanessa BHL meeting/phone calls

• BHL tentative spending plan for LSSI contractors (Keri)
  • Keri gave an overview of how we might best spend the $15K we have in the LSSI contract for BHL items; a number of options are on the table including rare book cataloging, NH Main serials holdings (selected), continue to send items to LSSI and see how much gets spent out; we will wait til JUNE 2009 to see if we will need to swap funds and "buy ahead" for FY 2010. In regards to the rare book "review"; if it needs a "full rare book cataloging" they'll be reviewed on a case by case basis
• Scanning Center Coordinators Call notes (Keri and Bianca)
  • Keri recapped the IA Scanning Center Coordinator conference call that occurred on 3/24. Both BHL staff members and IA scanning center managers participated. Among the topics covered were the new page insertion process; this does bring up the issue of "Frankenbooks"; some discussion of the foldout machine; IA also discussed their "folio machine" which is the foldout machine (BHL will continue to monitor these developments)
• Update: where we are with pulling, scanning (Keri, Grace, Erin T.)
  • Grace reported that REPTILES monographs are complete and we're moving onto BIRDS monographs on 3/25; Courtney Shaw has been informed that BIRDS will be starting; ENT serials are 90% pulled and we're working with ENT curators and pulling from their offices. Erin Thomas reported that she spoke with Tom Henry (Ent USDA curator) and showed him the books we took from him on the BHL portal and he was impressed. (Ann J is asking.: Where does Mammals fit into the scheme of processing? Martin K responding: MAMMALS is part of the same plan and will be part of the current picklist with Grace/Erin going there as needed; I inadvertently left them off the list of VZ locations)
• BHL Architecture Meeting
  • Article Repository
  • List of known repositories
  • BHL 2.0
• Other Budget Information
  • Next round of MacArthur/Sloan funding (next round of funding
  • Seidell (Martin and Keri will do a BHL spending plan for a new Seidell request)
• Other Stuff (jump on in)
  • Grace suggested that BHL cards or other advertisements; Martin suggested Grace might like to be on the BHL information dissemination group discussed at the BHL Architecture and Institutional Council meeting
  • Marcia would like to have Vanessa phone in when not available; Marcia will discuss with Vanessa the best plan