Spring NORDOCS Meeting, 2007

05.02.07

Navarro College Library

Corsicana, Texas

officer election: wait until Fall

Area Libraries News / Conference Reports

state library has had a lot of renovations
Penny Morava is handling disposal lists at Tech
- been there a year (previously in Circulation)
document space recovery committee is looking at options
- de-duping (dumping duplicates)
  - digitizing paper
  - keeping fiche
- look at housing with some selectives or Tech Law Library
- talked about shared depository w/ TSLAC
- (U of NM in talks about shared depository/regional)
- Cindy Etkins at GPO suggested extended de-duping
- looking at non-depositories for space, but may be an issue
- may get offsite housing at Levelland (middle school)
  - shared computer grid for projects
faculty members can be strong advocates to have for championing resources, etc.
- Bill Suddoth at North Carolina has a lot of storage space; would we be interested in similar?
  - advantages: immediate storage, boxes must be labeled with contents, out of our area sooner
  - copy of disposal list in the box for inventory (still send this list electronically)
  - Tom will send out a survey about this

knows of a few cheap places to stay/eat in Arlington, VA, for ALA
- Roslin Stop, Clarendon, Highlander Motor Inn, La Casta Verde
FDLP spring notes/info now posted on the FDLP Desktop website
Benton Harbor Public Library (MI)
- this year's depository library of the year winner
- @ FDLP, talked about mining community resources
- try to answer every reference question with a gov doc (Tom wants to start doing this at his library)
- Benton Harbor = large percentage of population is minority/poverty
- $17,000 total acquisitions budget for all library
- 16 staff, 3 MLS
- studied their community to determine their needs (see handout from this presentation on FDLP website)
William H. Turri now acting Public Printer
change in assessment practices
general move toward more library CMS (content management system) websites
FDLP program: Care and Weeding of a Collection (Utah)
- 5% of the collection; undergoing renovations
- moving late 1800's docs to special collections
UTA taken out 1,000 shelves (10 ranges) in last 10 years
alot of weeding; superceded list = use keep current year/pdf; looks good on stats list

TX Bureau of Prisons will pick up boxes of books , and inmates will recycle the materials
have new library director
wants David to weed 20-30% of the collection
very large, old collection = huge project (70% depository)
can you drop print and/or fiche in favor of electronic-only? (when same content)
- Tom Rohrig will find this out
- U of AZ has done a lot of this
consortium with UNT / TWU --would love to talk about it
Phoenix meeting in DFW (formerly AHE, Alliance for Higher Education); May 30th, sending several people
interested in possible partnership with UNT on the A-Z stuff; own a lot of older Agri documents
MARCIVE list of records - David R. checks in stacks what format they have items in (de-dup at that point)
- UNT has an auto-report as we receive records (generated by Tech Services in iii) -- for de-dups
- Andrea/Betty update links in records and un-suppress records
- UNT doesn't have item records created automatically (student does this)
- we may need to look at changing that

county trustees helped her library move last year
new director, wants to go as electronic as possible
US Codes/Statutes moving to GovDocs from Law Library
federal reporter 1/2/3 = need to find a home
acts as the community law library
5 staff for library: director, 2 MLS, 2 paraprofessionals, 1 part-timer for evening hours
open 7:30a - 11p (weekdays) and Sundays 5-8p
discussion about cafes in libraries
director wants her to travel more
Lexis-Nexis Academic has legal materials
- she heard that as of July, shepardizing for all states

problem with faculty requiring "only non-electronic resources" when many of our articles are delivered only electronically
- need to better educate faculty about this
report on new GovDocs Head starting in August, Suzanne Sears of Tulsa City-County Public Library
A-Z Digitization project (retro cataloging project now digitizes all pre-1960 documents)

backlog, 27 boxes weeded (LaTourneau)
she's a new documents librarian
may attend Interagency Seminar this summer (Starr is going either this summer or next)
30% depository