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1. Call to Order
2. Roll call
   1. Present – Beth Floyd, Kristy Hardtke, Nancy Jennings, Susan Stanton, Stephen Sarazin, Cindy Moore, Martha Hanscom, Desiree Saunders, Bobbi Thorpe and Libby Harlin as recorder.
   2. Absent – Kay Carlson.
3. Changes or additions to the agenda, approve agenda and minutes from last meeting May 2, 2007.
   1. Minutes from last meeting approved.
4. Introduction of new members, Cindy Moore, Nancy Jennings, Kristy Hardtke
   1. Cindy Moore works for the Rock Springs Library system in Green River and represents Region 6. Nancy Jennings works in Buffalo for Johnson County Library and represents Region 3. Kristy Hardtke works for Central Wyoming College in Riverton and represents Region 1
   2. Beth mentioned that the Online Quality Committee has a distribution list and asked members to put their names on the list. The list name is DQCOM and the description is Online Quality. Des reminded everyone that the username is lists and the password is email.
5. Structure of Committee
   1. Committee’s charge
      Beth described some key points regarding the structure of the Online Quality Committee. Monitors database quality and recommend appropriate action to the Regional Council or the Governing Board. Beth feels that this pertains to the book catalog, not periodicals except how they relate to the consortium and Des agreed. Beth also gave the link for the procedures of the committee which can be found on the website at http://will.state.wy.us/wyld/network/committees/quality/procedures.html Beth also addressed that the Committee is charged with reviewing WYLD database guidelines on an annual basis and that specific issues are addressed in Tech Notes.
   2. Structure of the membership Beth talked about the membership structure which includes OCLC and non OCLC libraries, public and technical services staff from each of the WYLD regions, and agency directors. The WYLD database manager is a permanent member of the committee. This information can be found in the bylaws at http://will.state.wy.us/wyld/network/documents/WYLD_BYLAWS_2010.pdf
6. Issues to be discussed during 2007-2008
   1. Beth asked the committee to list one or two items or more
      Susan – authority name control issues with Russian names are presenting a problem because of special characters. Stephen – authority control issues concerning no edit times, problematic to have extended times that we don’t edit, majority of linking done by non MLS catalogers
      Cindy – finding books in series, finding out if a book is in a series, problems with holds getting stuck on one item. Des stated that holds were not an issue for the OQC and suggested Cindy give some specific examples to Trish who would help determine the problems with the holds.
      Des – address article linker/serial solutions integration into WYLD, Gale most used authors and would like a survey to go out about this issue. There was some discussion regarding the automatic updates being done in OCLC and Des advised that Trish would be sending out an extensive network message about this topic as soon all the procedures are in place that pertain to this topic. Cindy had questions regarding the OCLC updates and reports and Des clarified that there will be reports available in Unicorn to let OCLC know about discard items or added items. Des also addressed that Ebsco is working with Google to load WYLD holdings from Ebsco into Google Scholar. The holdings are from the Ebsco databases that the state provides only.
      Bobbi – would like to continue to work on some of the ongoing issues such as the libraries that continue to have more than 60 issues per serial record. A report was run in March and then again in July and it may be time to look into how to handle libraries that don’t comply.
      Beth – would like to go over database guidelines. Bobbi stated she would be doing updated screen shots for the guidelines for the Java client. Beth would also like to explore MARC records being loaded into WYLD such as Oxford Reference.
   2. Discuss ranking items
      Article linker/serial solutions survey and the Gale most used author database issues will be first priority followed by authority control issues, websites in the catalog, issues with ebooks in WYLD and database guidelines. There was some discussion about the checklist for Cataloging Skills issue that Stephen had mentioned. Beth informed the committee that as part of the training committee she is revising that checklist to include Linking and once she presents it to the training committee and it meets approval will present it to Online Quality. The issues of not being able to find books in a series was addressed and Des suggested that Cindy trying using Novelist and also to email Bobbi with specific examples.
7. Announcements
   1. No new announcements.
8. Schedule next meeting
   1. meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 11:00 am.