Summer/Fall, Vol. 19, no. 2 (2005)
From
the Editors
“All changes
are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is
part
of ourselves.” -- Amelia E. Barr, author, All the Days of My Life, ch. 16
(1913)
A few words from
your departing
co-editor: A Changing of the Guard
It seems like only yesterday when I signed on to co-edit Technical Trends with Connie. Since teaming up with her on the Fall 2002 issue, I have had a wonderful experience. I have greatly appreciated the opportunity to serve you, the members, and the section these last three years by doing something that I truly enjoyed. As Barr’s quote above states change comes with a bit of melancholy. It is with melancholy and a somewhat heavy heart that I must leave this post. Other demands now beckon and I must turn my attention to them. I am, however, leaving you, our readers, in the willing and capable hands of Connie and her new co-editor, Jolinda Thompson, (George Washington University Medical Center). Starting with the Winter 2005 issue Jolinda will team up with Connie to bring you the latest in section news. Before I leave I want to thank:
Thanks again and I hope to see you next year in Phoenix. A closing quote follows:
“Leaving
reminds us of what we can part with and what we can’t, then offers us something
new
to look forward to, to dream about.” -- Richard Ford, author, “An Urge for
Going,”
Harper’s (New York, Feb. 1992)
Jan Cox
Head Librarian
IU School of Dentistry Library
Indianapolis, Indiana
jcox2@iupui.edu
There are not enough words to
thank Jan during her tenure as co-editor of Technical Trends.
She has been an invaluable companion
and expert proof reader! She is always on top of deadlines, hounding
people for articles (which, thankfully, isn't hard with this group!) and
editing and forwarding copy to me for input. With her persistence we
have been able to meet deadlines and publish newsletters on time!
Thank you, Jan, for your input and dedication. Of course, we know we
will continue to hear from you and have your contributions to Technical
Trends.
We welcome aboard JoLinda Thompson, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, George Washington University Medical Center, Washinton, D.C., as our new co-editor. So, for the next issue, you will see alerts from JoLinda. Please do not delete, but continue to send in those articles as you have in the past, to make publishing this newsletter an easy task! Take a look at all the news articles below and it is easy to see that technical services still plays a vital role in libraries, though a truly different role than in past decades! I salute all our contributors and say a hearty THANK YOU!
Connie K. Machado
Head, Cataloging Division
Rowland Medical Library
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
cmachado@rowland.umsmed.edu
Judith Carol Wilkerson
February 2, 1943-June 10, 2005
Saying Goodbye to a Leader,
Mentor
and Friend
Medical librarianship and, in particular, MLA Technical Services Section, lost a good friend when Judy Wilkerson died on June 10, 2005, after a 7-month battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Sixty-three years was not a long life by today’s standards but it was long enough for her to make a real difference to the libraries she served and the profession she honored.
Judy grew up in Oklahoma and received her B.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1965, with a triple major in botany, microbiology and zoology. After teaching high school science in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Kansas City for several years, Judy joined a mission team which established churches on college campuses in Arizona and New Mexico.
In 1984 she returned to Oklahoma to enter library school, receiving her MLS from the University of Oklahoma in 1985. With her science background, medical librarianship was a natural fit. Immediately after library school, she did an internship at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD; and then was employed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Library until she moved to the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in 1990. At the time of her death she was Head of Serials Services at the Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library, OUHSC.
I first met Judy when I was a newly-graduated librarian, still trying to pretend I understood serials. It was immediately obvious that she really did understand serials--with all their frustrations and complexity—but she was unfailingly patient and helpful to newcomers. She never seemed too busy to answer questions, or to help solve problems, even to those of us who worked for other universities.
She was one of the founders of Oklahoma’s state-wide serials organization, and coordinated the state Union List for several years. She was active in the South Central Chapter of MLA, and was the primary negotiator of database purchases and licensing for SCAMel—the South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium.
While I was trying to figure out the simple stuff, Judy was busy thinking about metadata and scholarly publishing. But she pulled us all along with her, and insisted that we spend time considering the big issues in Technical Services. That our role in libraries--and in medical libraries in particular--is both important and irreplaceable.
Judy served as TSS Membership Chair in 2002, and was Program
Chair/Chair-Elect in 2003. She was great at both involving people in the
section and getting the best out of each individual. She accomplished so much
herself that it was almost impossible to tell her ‘no.’ 
After I moved to OU-Tulsa, we worked together on the section programs for the MLA annual meeting in Washington, DC, in 2004. Judy wanted to know more about institutional repositories—and she wanted the rest of us to understand them, too. The packed room at that session showed how many other members of the association shared her interest.
Judy was looking forward to a great year as Chair of TSS. Unfortunately her illness made it impossible for her to accomplish many of the plans she had in mind for the section. But she had already changed the way that many of us think about technical services and that legacy will remain with us always.
At her memorial service, several of her family members and friends mentioned that once you had heard Judy laugh, you never forgot it. Even strangers would stop and turn toward that wonderful—inclusive—happy sound. And for those of us who shared that laughter, Judy will always have a special place in our hearts and memories.
Junie Janzen
University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
From
the Chair:
Welcome to the 2005/2006 Technical Services Section Year
I want to thank all of you for your volunteer efforts. We have had a tremendous response from TSS membership who wanted to serve on committees. It is your efforts that make the section a success. You answered the call and for that we are truly grateful. The 2005/2006 roster of Officers, committees and liaisons is included in this issue.
The 2005/2006 goals and objectives in support of MLA’s vision and core values as well as the 2006 annual conference theme Transformation is also included as a separate article. The 2005/2006 Officers, committees and membership have already started working very hard toward attaining these goals.
As we learned from several excellent presentations at the San Antonio and Washington, DC conferences, technical services in health sciences libraries epitomizes what it means to play vibrant, integral and even expanded roles in our respective libraries. These vibrant, integral and expanded roles can certainly be termed transformations. They have taken us from our back rooms and have involved roles which further contribute to our library’s service successes. Among the newer roles we have taken on and wrestle with are the ever changing e-materials management models/systems, metadata analysis and application, workflow issues, instruction, and collaboration within and without the library walls. Enriching and enhancing our skills continues to be essential if we are to meet not only today’s but tomorrow’s challenges. Just when we thought we had mastered all of these newer roles and challenges, we find lurking on the horizon the need to implement a new cataloging code. Plans for the new code promises to make us rethink bibliographic description and access in new challenging ways.
Having said all of this, you should know that program planning for the 2006 annual conference is already well underway. Cecilia Botero, Chair-Elect and Program Chair, is working with her committee as well as co-sponsor partners to finalize program topics which should address many of the challenges we currently face as well as some new ones. Current plans call for TSS to be the primary sponsor on at least one program session and partner with other sections on at least two other programs. Cecilia is also hard at work identifying topics and guest speakers for the program portion of the TSS Business Meeting which she hopes will be useful to all of you. Cecilia welcomes your ideas and suggestions (cecilia@library.health.ufl.edu ). Program planning is just planning without member participation. We encourage you to not only provide suggestions and input but to think about how you can share your knowledge with all of us by contributing papers and posters at the conference.
In closing, I am looking forward to the MLA
’06 Phoenix conference and all of the culture and beauty that the Southwest
has to offer.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your 2005/2006 Chair of
the Technical Services Section.
Jan Cox
Head Librarian
IU School of Dentistry Library
Indianapolis, Indiana
jcox2@iupui.edu
MLA Technical Services Section
Officers and Committees for 2005/2006
Section Officers For 2005/2006
Chair:
Jan Cox
val3@psu.edu
Chair-Elect and Program: Cecilia Botero
cecilia@library.health.ufl.edu
Past Chair and Bylaws: Virginia Lingle val3@psu.edu
Secretary/Treasurer: Valerie Gordon
vgordon@lister2.lhl.uab.edu
Section Council Rep. Connie Machado cmachado@rowland.umsmed.edu
Newsletter Co-Editors Connie Machado and Jolinda Thompson
Membership Chair: Hanna Kwasik
HKwasi@lsuhsc.edu
Nominating Com Chair: Maggie Wineburgh-Freed mwfreed@usc.edu
Standards Chair: Nadine Ellero
Nadine@virginia.edu
Ad-Hoc Research Chair:
Bob Pisciotta
bpisciot@kumc.edu
Web Master: Walter Morton
wmorton@rowland.umsmed.edu
E-mail list manager: Mary Buttner
buttner@stanford.edu)
Continuing Ed Chair: Susan Trombley susant@ahsl.arizona.edu
Ad-Hoc Mentoring Chair:
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed mwfreed@usc.edu
Continuing Education
Committee
Susan Trombley
(Chair)
susant@ahsl.arizona.edu
Lynne Bowman
lbowman@email.uky.edu
Joan Gregory
joang@lib.med.utah.edu
Program Committee
Cecilia Botero
(Chair)
cecilia@library.health.ufl.edu
Nadine Ellero
Nadine@virginia.edu
Annette Osenga
aosenga@lifewest.edu
Sheryl Widdoes
swiddoes@mdanderson.org
Membership Committee
Hanna Kwasik
(Chair)
HKwasi@lsuhsc.edu
Mary Holcomb
mholcomb@ahsl.arizona.edu
Junie Janzen
junie-janzen@ouhsc.edu
Lisa Palmer
lisa.palmer@umassmed.edu
Valerie Gordon (Ex-Officio)
vgordon@lister2.lhl.uab.edu
Bylaws Committee
Virginia Lingle (Chair) vlingle@psu.edu
Nominating Committee
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed (Chair) mwfreed@usc.edu
Standards Committee
Nadine Ellero
(Chair)
Nadine@virginia.edu
Cecilia Botero
cecilia@library.health.ufl.edu
Nancy Burford
nburford@medlib.tamu.edu
Angela Dixon
Angela_Dixon@urmc.rochester.edu
Malgorzata Fort
gosia@pitt.edu
Michael Wood
mawood@med.cornell.edu
Felicia Yeh
Felicia@gw.med.sc.edu
Xiaoli Li
xli@ucdavis.edu
Ad-Hoc Research
Committee
Bob Pisciotta
bpisciot@kumc.edu
Mary Holcomb
mholcomb@ahsl.arizona.edu
Mentoring
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed (Chair) mwfreed@usc.edu
Ad Hoc Task Force on Administrative Metadata
Nadine Ellero
(Chair)
Nadine@virginia.edu
Dan Kniesner kniesner@ohsu.edu
Suzanne Nagy suzanne.nagy@med.fsu.edu
MLA Liaisons to:
ALA
Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access: Karleen Darr
(2003/2004-2005/2006)kldarr@ucdavis.edu
MLA
Publisher/Vendor-Library Relations Committee: Pat Rodgers prodgers@ottosvc.co
NASIG:
Maggie Wineburgh-Freed
mwfreed@usc.edu
NISO:
Leopoldo Montoya (2005/2006-2007/2008)
lm46@exchange1.drexel.edu
2006
Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished
Achievement in Collection Development in Health Sciences
Application Deadline: November 1, 2005
The Louise Darling Medal is presented annually to recognize distinguished
achievement in collection development in the health sciences. The award
was established in 1987 and first awarded in 1988, with a contribution by
Ballen Booksellers International, Inc. It continues to be supported in
part by Blackwell North America, Inc. The medal honors Louise Darling's
significant accomplishment in this professional specialty. Nominees may
be individuals, institutions or groups of individuals; it is preferred that
they be members of MLA.
The nomination form is available from:
http://www.mlanet.org/awards/honors/darling.html
Further information is available at:
http://www.mlanet.org/awards
Please send nominations by November 1, 2005 to:
Lisa Fried, MLA, Professional
Development Department
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-7298
Opportunities
for Professional Development
The purpose of this column is to list continuing education
opportunities, which may be of interest to our members. While the column
is not intended to be a comprehensive listing, the compiler/editor welcomes
information on continuing education opportunities for possible inclusion in
future editions of the column. Although some of the courses listed below
may indicate the awarding of continuing education units, only those specifically
indicated as being MLA-approved have received prior approval from the Medical
Library Association.
Note that the TSS Research Committee provides Grant support for 3 MLA CE courses. Check out their link: http://library.umsmed.edu/tss/ResearchCom.html
“Disclaimer”:
Note that although some courses which appear in this column, may indicate the
awarding of CE hours, only those stating they are MLA-approved have prior
approval from MLA.
Dublin Core Conference 2005 "Vocabularies in Practice"
http://dc2005.uc3m.es/
Midcontinental
Chapter/MLA 2005 Annual Conference "Librarians Bridge the Gap"
Salt Lake City, Utah Sept. 17-20,
2005
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/mcmla/2005/
Midwest
Chapter/MLA 2005 Annual Conference "Routes to Discovery"Banned
Books Week Sept. 24-Oct.
1, 2005
2005 AMWA Conference: "Building Skills, Bridging Ideas"Mid-Atlantic Chapter Annual Conference "Information Innovation - Charting New Territory"
Internet Librarian International 2005 "Transcending
Boundaries: Information Technologies & Strategies for the 21st Century"
London, England Oct. 10-11,
2005
Southern Chapter/MLA 2005 Annual Meeting
South Central Chapter/MLA Annual Conference
American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference
"Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together"
Charlotte, North Carolina Oct.
28-Nov. 2, 2005
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/index.html
Distance
Learning Opportunities
The MLA Discussion Group program offers you an opportunity to explore a topic of interest with other professionals and earn MLA continuing education (CE) contact hours for professional development.
http://www.mlanet.org/education/discussiongroups/
Distance Learning Opportunities through MLA
Monday was a busy day at MLA ’05, but over 50 people found their way to TSS’s primary contributed paper session, “Educate, Enrich, and Enhance: Technical Services Internal Educational Outreach.” The program was co-sponsored by Leadership and Management Section, and was included in the Education and Outreach track. Nancy Burford, of Texas A&M, and Chris Ewing, of University of Southern California - Los Angeles, served as moderators.
Four interesting presentations were included in the session: “Innovative Roles for Technical Services Librarians: Extending Our Reach” (Joan M. Gregory, Alice I. Weber, and Shona R. Dippie, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah); “On Beyond the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC): Repurposing Integrated Library System Data for Web-based Access Tools” (Malgorzata Fort, Phillip Bergen and Deborah Silverman, University of Pittsburgh); “Beyond the ‘Back Room’: Technical Services Staff as Integral Partners in Providing Library Services” (Betty Landesman and Rosalie Holmes Stroman, NIH Library, National Institutes of Health); and “Coming Out of the Back Room: Technical Services Breaks Loose” (Lisa Palmer and Barbara Ingrassia, Lamar Souter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School—Worcester.)
Abstracts of the individual presentations are available in the Supplement to the Official Program, distributed to those attending MLA ‘05, and may be viewed or downloaded from the MLA website at http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2005/program/downloads.html.
Several themes seemed to run through all of the presentations. First, libraries sometimes focus outreach activities outward—toward community groups, public patrons, or health professionals—and neglect potential opportunities for outreach within our own organizations. Joan Gregory and her colleagues at the University of Utah expanded our vision by discussing the wide range of on-campus outreach activities they have either led or participated in, particularly those in which knowledge management techniques are essential.
Another major theme was the fact that technical services librarians have particular knowledge and skills which can be useful for many types of organization projects—if we define ourselves in less-traditional ways. Lisa Palmer and Barbara Ingrassia demonstrated the unique contributions that technical services provide to cross-departmental library teams and campus-wide task forces. Their image of technical services moving away from being a ‘silo’—an isolated group—toward being a ‘channel’ to move information throughout the campus, visually illustrated this theme.
The idea that, with proper training, technical services staff members can use their unique skills to reach wider audiences was emphasized in Betty Landesman and Rosalie Stroman’s presentation. In the increasingly electronics-based library environment at the NIH Library, technical services has assumed full responsibility for maintaining the library’s electronic resources. Library technicians also serve as reference assistants, which gives them insight into how patrons actually approach use of the resources.
A final theme in the presentations was that, when we are ready to look beyond our traditional functions, the systems we already have in place can be redefined in innovative ways. At the University of Pittsburgh, information held in the integrated library system is used both for the OPAC and for a variety of web-based tools. The presenters pointed out the difficulties involved to balance the need for standards with the demands for new forms of access.
All four presentations were well-received, with many insightful questions and comments from the audience. Nancy and Craig did a good job of keeping the session on-time and on-track. The Section’s thanks and congratulations should go to everyone involved—moderators, presenters, and participants.
Junie Janzen
OU-Tulsa Library
Junie-janzen@ouhsc.edu
Medical
Information Diversity: Results of a MLA Survey
TSS cosponsored this session at the 2005 MLA Annual Conference, with the Cancer
Librarians, Collection Development, and Research Sections. This survey looked
at training in medical informatics as a possible method of career enhancement,
specifically as it related to the title “Information Specialist in Context” (ISIC).
The 156 survey respondents represented various job titles and institution types. 69% had no medical informatics training. Those who reported having more recent informatics training also reported being more interested in the subject matter, plus felt that training was important. Those who lacked training in medical informatics felt it was not important, and were not interested in undergoing such training.
The four panelists had diverse educational experiences: 1) Linda Hogan – on the job; 2) Catherine Arnott Smith – formal program; 3) Douglas Joubert – practicing informationist; 4) Diane Wolf – clinical librarian.
The following points were discussed:
A five-year program, offered at Catholic Health East, included formal education, additional training, work responsibilities, and leadership skills. It is an example of a project whose purpose was to show a decrease in medication errors.
Innovative education of this sort, when presented to top executive officers, can show the value of clinical transformation initiatives.
Is formal education desirable? Librarians see peers obtain a PhD in library science, with a dissertation in medical informatics, and see they’re losing money by not doing it.
It was questioned whether how someone “self identifies” affects his or her view of ISIC.
Is there more buy-in from Administration if the title is changed? Currently, the title is “Informationist in Context,” defined as providing information at point of care. Hospital librarians in the ‘70s wanted more prestige and funding, but possibly lacked the ability to converse knowledgeably with health care practitioners. This resulted in a credibility gap.
In 2000, MLA liked the term Informationist. Some felt the title was exclusionary, so moved to ISIC. Need dual skills set: information retrieval and subject expertise, and the ability to apply skills outside the library.
“Chopped liver” redux (Mike Kronenfeld’s article, as in “what are we, chopped liver?”). Could ISIC be seen as a threat to Clinical Education Librarians? Informationists/ISICs are no more a threat than clinical pharmacists are to pharmacists in the pharmacy.
Why not use a name reimbursable by insurance? Diabetes educators get reimbursed.
Survey responses on Role of Education and Training included:
Are there enough courses in medical librarianship? What’s “enough”?
Are interest and faculty not available at same time?
New grads aren’t prepared.
HS librarianship should be a specialty beyond library school.
Most respondents were negative and unhappy in their positions.
Some LIS grads lack hands-on search training; need internship options.
NLM used to fund individuals to be trained as specialist in ISIC-type program. Possibly a similar program could be offered. A consumer health specialty is offered post-MLS for medical informatics.
WEISE, a consortium of (currently) 15 schools, puts online classes out there to share – and the student’s home school tuition rate prevails.
Sue Trombley
University of Arizona
susant@ahsl.arizona.edu
INTRODUCTION:
Hello to all of you readers, most of whom know me to some extent by now. I have been appointed by M.J. Tooey to succeed Nadine Ellero as MLA’s representative to NISO for the next three years. I have accepted with pleasure, thinking that my Committee Chair experience of a good number of years and with Nadine’s will make it possible for me to deliver a fair performance in this task. I want to say to you all that I will take seriously my duty to vote as MLA representative so that we as a work group will continue to have a voice in the shaping of our national information science standards. As Nadine has written recently in her columns, if anything, this seems to be developing as a growing technical affair as a direct result of the rapid change in electronic publishing. I also do feel that medical librarians have a particular point of view that needs be heard, and this is one way that can take shape.
In order to improve our performance as a national Association, I have also asked our new Chair person to look into the past failure of the other two MLA committees that are supposed to be working with the Technical Services Standards Committee in the study of standard drafts. Nadine has agreed to serve as chair of the new TSS Standards Committee in my stead, since she had not had that position before. I know that she is trying to put together a stronger TSS Committee so we can derive the full benefit of the Section members’ opinions. Last year we had more work to do than any other year before, and we did fulfill our duty. I hope that we will do so too this coming year and the rest of the period that I will vote in your name. In the meantime we will try to make clearer what is involved in this task and what is the role of NISO in the national scene.
One of the first things I have done is go back over all the Technical Trends issues published online and read the columns that were successively written by Hope Barton and Nadine. I propose to follow the same basic format Nadine employed, dividing the column or article in the sections you are used to seeing. I also want to invite any and all of you to submit information to me (at lm46@drexel.edu) about meetings, symposia, etc. that you may have attended and that have to do with the construction and revision of information science standards. For example, this first piece of mine borrows much of a report by Nadine on a session she attended while at the ALA Convention last month, and I thank her for that. If any of you attend ALA Mid Winter, the SLA Convention or regional gatherings where NISO presents a session or standards are the subject, please let me know and send me some notes if you will.
STANDARDS:
The most important news is that ANSI gave final approval to the new Bibliographic References standard (Z39.29-2005) which our committee had worked on a couple of years ago. It can be downloaded from http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-29-2005.pdf.
Similarly, ANSI also approved a new version of Specifications for the Digital Talking Book, which can be downloaded from http://www.niso.org/standards.
NISO approved and submitted to ANSI the revision of Scientific and Technical Reports : Preparation, Presentation and Preservation (Z39.18), which can be downloaded from http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-18-2005final.pdf.
Finally, NISO’s standard on
Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies (Z39.19) is currently at ballot and expected
to be published before the end of this year. The draft is available from
http://www/niso.org/standards/balloting.html.
MEETINGS:
NISO held a workshop in May on Digital Rights Expression which focused on the standardization of rights collections. The final workshop report cam be downloaded from http://www/niso.org/news/events_workshops/RE-workshop.html.
The LITA Standards Interest Group held a meeting during the ALA Annual Conference at Chicago in June where NISO presented its yearly standards update. The theme of the meeting was standards for licenses of electronic resources. Denise Troll Covey, Chair of the NISO Planning Committee on Digital Rights, described the NISO Initiative on the Digital Rights Expression I mentioned above. Alicia Wise, Chief Executive of the British Publishers Licensing Society presented a paper on “Encoding License Terms and Rights” and argued the need for a standard that would facilitate communication and understanding and minimize administrative costs to make possible a working partnership between libraries and publishers. Brian Greene, Executive Director of EDItEUR, discussed the very ONIX we studied last year in one of our assigned drafts, and also argued for a standard mechanism that would foster compliance both in purchasing and in lending via interlibrary loan systems. Jenny Walker, Co-Chair of the NISO Metasearch Initiative (http://www.niso.org/committees/MS_initiative.html#about), presented an update of her group’s progress and announced they will release a standard draft in September.
REFERENCES:
Pat Harris, “NISO’s OpenURL : Matching the Query to the Result”, D-Lib Magazine, May 2005.
A variety of other references on various subjects (archives, collection development, metadata, open access, preservation, semantic interoperability, terminology translation, Web services, etc.) can be found in the monthly issues of NISO Newsline at http://www.niso.org/news/newsline/NISONewsline.html.
Leopoldo M. Montoya
Drexel College of Medicine
Hahnemann Library
lm46@exchange2.drexel.edu
NISO PROGRAM
AT THE 2005 ALA CONFERENCE
Nadine Ellero, MLA NISO
liaison, attended the LITA Standards Interest Group Meeting held at the ALA
Annual Conference, June 25, 2005 in Chicago. She reports the following
highlights from the presentations that were given.
The LITA Standards Interest Group’s theme for this 2005 meeting was on standards
for licenses of electronic resources. Denise Troll Covey, Chair, NISO Planning
Committee on Digital Rights, described the NISO Initiative on Digital Rights
Expression, which has as its goal the provision of “the most advantageous
environment possible for education, research, and scholarship….with the
challenge of “understanding and serving the priorities of both the for-profit
and non-profit sectors in an environment that we cannot control, but to which we
must respond.” The NISO initiative also has as its goal, the creation of a
vocabulary to facilitate communication between all parties involved in the
digital rights arena. See also:
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/RE-workshop.html.
Dr. Alicia Wise, Chief Executive, Publishers Licensing Society (http://www.pls.org.uk/ngen_public/default.asp?id=2),
United Kingdom gave a provocative discourse on “Encoding License Terms and
Rights: Why bother?” She presented a strong case for having a standard that
could facilitate communication and understanding, minimize administrative costs,
and be embedded in current workflows such as ONIX and DOI. Strategically, Dr.
Wise stated that constructing such a standard would create a working partnership
between libraries and publishers and one which would hopefully foster better
compliance for both group’s concerns and needs.
Brian Green, Executive Director of EDItEUR (http://www.editeur.org/),
discussed ONIX for licensing terms. He also made a plea for creating a
standard mechanism that would foster compliance and disambiguate terms of
agreement both in purchasing and in lending via interlibrary loan systems.
Jenny Walker, Co-chair of the NISO Metasearch Initiative (http://www.niso.org/committees/MS_initiative.html#about)
gave an update on this group’s progress. There are now over 60 members and 3
task groups. The task groups are divided into the following topical groups:
access management, collection description, and search and retrieve. They will
release a draft standard for trial use, September 2005.
Rebecca Guenther, from the Library of Congress, gave an update on the
Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS). A working group has
been established as well as an Advisory Committee of various experts. The
mission of PREMIS is to “define a core set of implementable preservation
metadata elements” with the implementation guidelines being neutral and not
specific to any system. More information on this initiative can be found at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/.
Nadine P. Ellero
University of Virginia
Claude Moore Health Science Library
npe6f@virginia.edu
TECHNICAL
SERVICES SECTION
MLA Business Meeting
Minutes
TSS/MLA Business Meeting I
Minutes
May 17, 2005
San Antonio, Texas
The Section Chair-Elect, Jan Cox called the meeting to order at 7:00 am. Judith Wilkerson, Section Chair, was unable to attend MLA due to illness. A card for Judy was circulated for people to sign.
Valerie Gordon, Secretary/Treasurer, distributed copies of the Technical Services Business Meeting I minutes from May 2004 which were approved as distributed.
Reports of Section Officers
Chair/Chair Elect Report -- Jan Cox reported for Judy Wilkerson and distributed copies of the TSS annual report. Highlights of the report included program plans for the annual meeting, activities on standards, and continuing education opportunities reported online and in Technical Trends.
Chair Elect/Program Report -- Jan Cox distributed copies of the Program Committee Report. The TSS sponsored programs included “Educate, Enrich, and Enhance: Technical Services Internal Educational Outreach” (lead) and “Impact of Open Access Publishing” (partner) and “Medical Information Diversity” (partner). TSS partnered with: Cancer Librarians, Collection Development, Leadership, and Management, Medical Informatics, Medical Library Education and Research Sections.
Secretary/Treasurer Report -- Valerie Gordon distributed the Treasurers’ Report which was approved as distributed.
|
|
Income |
Expenses |
Balance |
|
May 10, 2004 |
|
|
$11,748.90 |
|
Dues |
$914.80 |
|
|
|
Interest |
$28.16 |
|
|
|
Bank Charges (for checks) |
|
$14.50 |
|
|
2004 Annual Meeting Expenses* |
|
$613.69 |
|
|
May 6, 2005 |
$942.96 |
$628.19 |
$12,063.67 |
*Annual Meeting Expenses Itemized:
$581.96 Business Meetings I & II – Refreshments
$ 31.73 Business Meeting I – Audiovisuals
Section Representative --
Junie Janzen,
Section Council Representative-Elect, reported for
Connie Machado on the Section Council meeting on Sunday. She reported that
email voting has been approved for sections and that candidates must agree in
writing before the election to abide by the results of an email vote. Council
is seeking information about the individual squares in the Section quilt to
determine who made the square and in what year. The Professional Recruitment
and Retention Committee is seeking information about recruitment activities in
the chapters. They have prepared a draft spreadsheet of chapter outreach and
also have a new recruiting brochure. Section Council Standards Committee has
information from its survey on the Section Council website. Tovah Reis is
planning to forward the evaluations of individual section programs from this
meeting to the section chairs. Official ballots for candidates to the MLA
Nominating Committee 2005 were distributed. Sections should choose six and
return the ballot on Thursday. One current emphasis is on global initiatives
and international cooperation including the possibility of “Librarians without
Borders” to help in disaster situations. CORE is ending and MJ Tooey is
considering turning this into a MLA Digital Repository which may involve
Research and Technical Services Sections. Upcoming Annual meetings are: 2006—Phoenix
(Transformations A – Z); 2007 –Philadelphia (Traditions & Roots); 2008—Chicago;
2009—Hawaii; and 2010—Washington, D.C. It is important to have section
elections, ballots counted and results reported by February 15. Beginning next
year Section Council will consider having a longer meeting on Saturday and none
on Wednesday since voting can be done electronically and a final meeting would
no longer be necessary.
Committee Reports
Past Chair/Bylaws – Virginia Lingle, Past-Chair, distributed her report which summarized recommendations for TSS Bylaws and the Policies and Procedures Manual The Section bylaws were reviewed by Mary Langman at MLA Headquarters in March 2005 and are in compliance. The language in Section 3C could be simplified by adopting this section of the model bylaws. Virginia will continue to review the TSS Bylaws and the Policy and Procedures Manual and make recommendations for changes.
CE Committee -- Susan Trombley, Continuing Education Committee Chair, distributed the report for the Continuing Education Committee and reported that she would be attending the MLA CE committee later that day.
Membership Committee – Junie Janzen, Membership Committee Chair, distributed her report. As of April 1, 2005 the TSS section has 108 current members and 22 first time members. The Section has been working closely with the Health Sciences OCLC Users Group to welcome interested members of HSOCLCUG into TSS. New members of NASIG in medical libraries were also identified and invited to join TSS. New members attending the TSS Business meeting were invited to stand and introduce themselves and were welcomed to the Section.
Newsletter Co-Editors – Jan Cox submitted a report on behalf of the co-editors Connie Machado and herself. Jan thanked everyone for submitting articles to the newsletter. She also reported that Maggie Wineburgh-Freed had asked that Technical Services be added to the MLA Mentoring Guidelines and encouraged more people to volunteer for this activity since so few had done so already.
Nominating Committee – Marianne Burke, Nominating Committee Chair, distributed copies of the Nominating Committee Report. The committee sought nominations for the offices of Vice- Chair/ Chair –Elect, Section Council Representative-Elect and TSS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee. Six candidates graciously accepted nomination and agreed to run for office. The nominees were Cecilia Botero and Nancy Burford for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Junie Jantzen and Sue Trombley for Section Council Representative-Elect, and Deb Silverman and Maggie Wineburgh-Freed for TSS Nominee to the MLA Nominating Committee. The election winners were Botero, Janzen, and Wineburgh-Freed. Election ballots were distributed over the TSS distribution list but voter turnout was low. Marianne polled the audience to determine if there were problems with TSS members receiving their ballot. Marianne re
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