Attending:  Lee Cartmill, Elaine Engst, Claire Germain, Anne Kenney, Ellen Marsh, Janet McCue, Oya Rieger, Jean Poland, Jennifer Sawyer, John Saylor, Ed Weissman, Scott Wicks.
Guests:  David Banush, Linda Bryan, Xin Li

1) Announcements
  a) Oya Rieger reported that she has been appointed to a new Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Task Force on Digital Repository Issues.
  b) Elaine Engst reported that a new Kirtas Technologies scanner that handles foldouts in publications has been housed in RMC in support of the Microsoft Live Book Search digitization project.
  c) John Saylor announced that he would be attending a meeting of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)  < http://scoap3.org/index.html> in Berkeley at the end of February.  The goal of SCOAP3 is to establish a new model to cover publishing costs for Particle Physics journals. "In the SCOAP3 model, everyone involved in producing the literature of particle physics (universities, labs, and funding agencies) pays into the SCOAP3 consortium which then pays publishers so that all articles in the field are Open Access."
  d) Janet McCue reported that the University had approved a seed grant for a Research Service Group (RSG) at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC).  This grant which focuses on scientific datasets will involve faculty in astronomy, physics, and the life sciences as well as staff from the Library and the CAC. The RSG is one component of a Cornell-internal effort on data that connects to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network (DataNet) project. < http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08021/nsf08021.jsp>
        
2) Data Mart Update
        Last July, the CUL Administrative Team (CAT) endorsed a recommendation from David Banush to do a pilot project as part of the proposed CUL data mart.  The pilot focuses on gathering and making available data about electronic journal usage and costs along with appropriate analytical tools to inform better decision-making by selectors.  David has been working with Leah Solla to develop this and to assess its cost and value.  It is anticipated that a working prototype will be available later this spring.  At the same time, the Electronic Resources and Serials Management group in Library Technical Services (LTS) has been a partner with Innovative Interfaces (III) in the development of software (AcqLite) that will pair Voyager expenditure data with III's ERM System usage statistics.  AcqLite, however, will be not be comprehensive.  Not all electronic journals will be included, and it will only match cost and only include usage data from the past year.  Reports from the ERM system will be used as a basis for the prototype database.
        Xin Li said that the pilot project David is leading is a component of the CUL data mart the Research and Assessment Unit (RAU) is developing.  The data mart is a repository of CUL data and data
generating tools. The goal is to have a place where all the rich data/research findings CUL staff is generating will reside so more people can benefit from them. The data mart will contain Library statistics,
assessment studies, surveys and other data generated by CUL staff and RAU. In the data mart, CUL staff can also access local tools or system, such as the Reference Statistics Reporting System. Information about the pilot David and Leah are working on will be also available there. The data mart will be available for exploration soon, when RAU launches its website.

3) ClimateQUAL Survey
        At the October 31 LMT meeting, LMT endorsed the Library's participation in the Organizational Climate and Diversity Assessment (OCDA) Project, phase 2.  Cornell will be one of ten participating
institutions that conduct a voluntary staff survey.  The goal of the project is to develop an instrument that measures staff perceptions of library's climate and diversity as reflected through its policies and
practices.  The Library plans to measure employee perceptions on a regular basis over time, and will actively seek to improve areas where the survey shows improvement is needed. .  Xin Lin and Linda Bryan reported on the plans and preparations for administering the web-based survey this spring.  Information about the survey will be communicated to library staff via information sessions, e-mail messages and other forums. 

4) CUL Participation in the 2008 ARL Spec Surveys
        LMT reviewed descriptions of the six ARL Spec Surveys that will be administered in 2008 and agreed to respond to three--the SPEC Survey on Promoting the Library, the SPEC Survey on Graduate and Faculty research Service and Spaces, and the SPEC Survey on the Use of Social Networking, Bookmarking, Tagging, or Other Web 2.0 Activities in Libraries.  These SPEC Surveys are the basis for the ARL Spec Kit publications.


Edward Weissman