Meeting Minutes

Langara College Library, Rm 216 9:30 am

Attending: Katherine Miller (UBC), Liza Hutchison (Langara), Todd Rowlatt (VCC), Gordon Coleman (ELN), Cynthia McLellan (SLAIS), Celia Brinkerhoff (Douglas)

Minutes recorded by Celia Brinkerhoff

Items for discussion:

1. Update on meeting with UBC cIRcle

2. Update on reporting LINK statistics

3. Update on harvesting data from multiple respositories

4. Contributions from beyond academic libraries sector

5. Promotion and Fall Campaign

1. Update on meeting with UBC cIRcle

     Todd, Christine, and Gordon have arranged a meeting with Hilde Colenbrander at UBC's cIRcle to explore possibilities of partnering with them. This will be an initial discussion to look at ways in which we might be able to cross-search both repositories, or promote contributions to both collections. Cynthia will look into whether SLAIS students can easily access/contribute items to cIRcle. She will also attend meeting if Christine is unable to. The meeting is set for September 23rd.

2. Update on reporting LINK statistics

     Gordon reported back on his conversation with Scott regarding our interest in obtaining statistics on views, downloads, etc so we have a better sense of activity. We'd like to be able to use such information as most viewed, most download for promotional purposes. Scott has made a request to the software developer to add this feature, but does not think it is likely to happen anytime soon. Currently, the best we can do is a spreadsheet of activity. Gordon will ask Scott for a montly or term report for activity.

3. Update on harvesting data from multiple respositories