March2011ConferenceCall

• Round robin --
  • How consistent are you with entering the "publication date" field in the Wonderfetch? - lipscombb Mar 24, 2011
• Life and Literature conference updates (William)
• BHL brief and detailed views now live (Trish) - any feedback from users?
• Citebank updates (Trish)

• (c) Review for BHL portal items (Bianca)
  • Wonderfetch fields for (c) information are being used differently by BHL members (ay ya yai!) - i need to know how each institution has been using these fields to date - lipscombb Mar 31, 2011
  • BHL permissions agreement
  • need help! - are there 3 people who could volunteer to help Bianca work on this?
• Conference updates-
• Future face-face BHL meetings - around LITA Forum Sept 29-Oct 2nd. Focus on content and technical sustainability. Funding? (Martin)
• Potential BHL grants - NEH Automatically identifying illustrations in BHL texts and then using crowdsourcing to describe them (Martin)
• REMINDER: Please do not overlap on your Scanlist bids! (Bianca)
• IA frozen items (Grace) Biodiversity Books Frozen in IA.xlsx
• FYI BHL does not bring in content that does not have OCR text associated with it. With IA's C/J/K OCR language limitations, we are not bringing in these materials. Chris and Mike are making adjustments to this process to bring in these materials ~end of April/early May. (bianca)
• FYI Next BHL staff report and Gemini quarterly updates to be made available next week (Bianca)