SIL November 10, 2010
SIL Staff Meeting
10 November 2010
Attending: Katie Wagner, Martin Kalfatovic, Conrad Ziyad, Erin Thomas, Bianca Crowley, Stefaan Hurts, Keri Thompson, Gil Taylor, Robin Everly, Suzanne Pilsk
Not Attending: Ann Juneau, Kathy Hill, Marcia Adams
Action Items: SC draft OCLC announcement; SC/GT will talk with Marcia and Mary Augusta about status of USDA/NAL books in Entomology
Agenda
- DOI, D'oh
SIL will be the registrant for DOI's; details to follow - Natural History Main Status
GT brought along photos of the mess in NH stacks; GT hopes that he can get GC and ET into the stacks for selected pulling - Pennsy Camera Scanning
New camera generator is down; David Holbert sent the camera for repair, we hope to have it back in a week or so - Our Local Scribe
SH using the old software again til further notice - BHL records now in OCLC
There was some discussion about the look of the records; SP will give one last review and then draft an announcement to send to the larger group - Other topics
CiteBank will go into a "soft launch" in early December, might be Thanksgiving week, might be later; this is a heads up that we will get some feedback to the dev team - Biana in San Francisco
BC will do some work while on vacation in SF; she'll meet with Cal Academy and IA to discuss workflow - BHL Europe Meeting
BC and GC will attend the BHL Europe meeting in late November to discuss worflow and best practices; they will be at the meetings for two days - BHL Collections Group
BC reported on the work of the Collections Group; thanked GC and Joe DeVeer for their work - BHL China Meeting
MK and KT will go to BHL China meetings in Beijing 12-20 November to discuss scanning workflow and other topics
