SIL May 20, 2009

Agenda

May 20, 2009 9:00-9:30

SIL BHL Staff Meeting

MEETING CANCELLED BECAUSE CONFERENCE ROOM TAKEN OVER BY OCEAN HEALTH INDEX

Attending:

• Suzanne Pilsk
• Gil Taylor
• Grace Duke
• Erin Rushing
• Diane Shaw
• Erin Thomas
• Martin Kalfatovic
• Keri Thompson
• Bianca Lipscomb
• Vanessa Haight Smith (on phone)

• Kathy Hill
• Ann Juneau
• Bess Missell
• Marcia Adams

• MRK send BL Poisson email [COMPLETE]
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• ET and GD will work on a screen capture demo of BHL
• SCP will set up another BHL portal editing call
• SCP will investigate getting a report from the bid list to identify items that need to be merged

• GT will follow up with VZ to see if they need any more information; Gil will follow up with Cour\

Agenda Items

• Update on Meet and Greets (KT, ET, BL, GD)
• Scheduling of Meet and Greet for MSC VZ/IZ staff (GT, et al)
• Report on the Council of Botanical and Horticulture Libraries meeting (St. Louis, May 12, 2009)
  There was a very good turnout (about 40 people) for the pre-conference workshop on BHL and Tropicos. Many suggested that there be a regular BHL update session scheduled for CBHL. Leslie Overstreet and Robin Everly from SIL attended. Had some very good side discussions with Leora Siegel (Chicago Botanic Garden) and Harvey Brenneise (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden). My presentation is on slideshare.
• Report on BHL orientation for Dagmar (Gil, Ann, Suzanne)
• Status of book carts (KT, ET, GD)
• Where are we in pulling and putting back? (GD, ET)
• Report on Portal Editing Call (SP, GD, ET, BL)
• Question of priorities for TSP: foldouts? RB? 'requests' ?
• Other

• Update on Guidelines for books requested for digitization "On Demand" (BL, MK)
• Status of information back to SIRIS (SP, BM)
• BHL budget issues
• Show and Tell of Citebank (time permitting)