Board Minutes

Meeting No. 4
May 21, 1999
Nashville, TN

Present:  Yildiz Binkley, Rosa Burnett, Sheila Delacroix, Paula Kaufman, Sue Loper, Les Pourciau, Winston Walden, Peter Consacro (TBR liaison), Tom Singarella (UT liaison)

1. The Board reviewed the May 1, 1999 Final Implementation Report on the Universal Borrowers Card Project.  It noted with pleasure that all TBR and UT libraries are participating.  It offered thanks to the Borrowers Card Task Force, chaired by Deb Thomas of UTK, and to Jean Jackson of Pellissippi State, who is the first Coordinator of the project.  The board expressed its intent to evaluate the program after its first two years of operation.

2. Rosa Burnett reported on the successful training workshops that were held this spring.  Many staff are requesting additional workshops.  The Board congratulated her and her task force and asked that the task force recommend a topic for the next workshop series, which the Board intends to make an annual spring event.

3. Annelle Huggins, chair of the Joint Database Purchase task force reported by written report that the task force is waiting to see to which databases TEL will subscribe.  It recommended that TALC identify one library within its membership to do all the group negotiations.  After considerable discussion the Board decided to ask the Task Force to identify possible subcontractors to do negotiations for the group and determine feasibility and costs; SOLINET and (eventually) TEL were mentioned as strong possibilities.

4. Several potential future projects were identified.  (Names of board members responsible for investigating and or implementing are in parentheses):

• Document delivery among all TALC members (Winston Walden)
• Virtual catalog/gateway for OPACS (wait to see if this is a feature of TEL)
• Annual meeting for all TALC members, perhaps in conjunction with TLA's CUL meeting (Sheila Delacroix)
• Develop statistical database (Kaufman to see if UTK's SIS will participate)

5. The Board viewed a short video about the Renaissance Center and discussed possible implications and opportunities for library support and services.

6. New officers for 1999/2000:

• Sheila Delacroix, chair
• Rosa Burnett, chair-elect