SIRS (McKeldin Service Plus ) minutes
Meeting of February 7, 2001

We welcomed Yahaira Norris-Gonzalez (McKeldin Periodicals) to SIRS

1) SIRS reviewed proposed Procedures for Submitting and Processing
RECOMMENDATIONS for Transfer or Withdrawal of Books from the McKeldin
Reference Collection.  These procedures are intended to encourage review
of the collection "as a whole" by managing recommended action on titles
outside of an individual selector's subject specialization.  After discussion
and agreeing to changes, Glenn took the procedure back for final editing.
After procedures are completed the subject team members of SIRS will distribute
those procedures to their subject teams.

2) SIRS reviewed the EIC workstation activity sampling data that we gathered in
Fall semester.  Based on that information, we decided to reduce the number of
EIC/AUTOM workstations to 5.  Before actually doing this, ArHu will 1) check to
see if Il Seicento could be moved to ETIC and 2) decide if Historical Abstracts
should remain on the EIC since we have the on-line version.

Chris B. will recommend how to best reconfigure the 5 remaining workstations.
SIRS would like to explore the possibility of using one of the removed workstations
as the Microsoft Office print-only station and placing that workstation next to
one of the P4P stations.  The other removed workstations should replace the 133's
in the Electronic Research area if this amounts to a hardware upgrade.

Roundrobin:

        Stan reported that TSD End Processing Unit has caught up with processing
backlog.  Now their student staffers are leaving, so another processing backlog is probable.
        SIRS gave Cindy some suggestions for what to tell rovers in the rover discussion
session later that day.
        SIRS asked Cindy to investigate whether Internet Explorer could be temporarily
removed from the workstation desktop since P4P has been problematic thru IE.

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Cynthia Todd
Coordinator for Information & Research Services
McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
ct15@umail.umd.edu