SIL20090923

SIL BHL Taskforce standing meeting

7 October 2009

• Erin Thomas
• Grace Duke
• Keri Thompson
• Martin Kalfatovic
• Gil Taylor
• Bess Missell (phone)
• Vanessa Haight Smith
• Bianca Lipscomb
• Conrad Ziyad
• Robin Everly

• Suzanne Pilsk
• Marcia Adams
• Ann Juneau
• Kathy Hill

• Requesting gap fills and reporting problems via the Portal.
  It Is Working. ET and GD will look into Gemini functionality that will allow for a "thanks, we got your email"
• Omeka!
  MRK still needs to give ET and GD passwords.
• BAE status
  KT reports that all BAE are with LSSI; she will document the status on the wiki
• Botany libraries phone call
  BL reports the botany call was interesting. There will further discussion.
• Status of request for that Botany title?
  MOBOT will be scanning this; SIL ILL'd a volume MOBOT was
• BHL f2f meeting in DC in November
  Being planned
• Curator's offices - where are we?
  Will be picked up after the BHL room move
• BHL room move?
  We have not heard anything; MRK will check on this with Kathy; ET and GD moved cataloging backlog to original cataloging
• Pulling
  Pulling now mostly gap fills, except for birds serials. Shelving still everywhere. Should we revisit shipment size?
• BHL China
  BHL mou is signed and Keri will try and visit with the CAS
• CBHL and Chicago
  Robin will be going to visit the Field; also, she will recommend to the CBHL board that there be a BHL presentation at the main portion of the meeting
• Public Facing Wiki
  BL had interesting comments