Present: Stahl, Johnson, Arnold, Wrubel, Todd (recording), Kaske

1. Meetings. We agreed to change our regular meeting time to 2nd Thursday of the month, 9:30-11:00 beginning on October 14th in the Art Library.

2. Assessment of presentation to all staff meetings. The committee: Beth, Laura, Joan did very well. We were disappointed at the turn out at the all staff meetings. Can we reuse this material in a different venue? We decided to try to get on the agenda for meetings of the collaboratives, Nonprint, PAL, Art/Architecture, Archives and Manuscripts.

3. Lecture Series. We agreed to try one lecture each semester. Joan will talk to Desi to see if we can get a $200 from the libraries for one lecture. We’ll seek matching funds from CLIS. Joan will start a listserv discussion on who should be the next speaker.

4. Staffing CHAT. We discussed the feedback from the conversations held by IRS-T. We came up with a different model whereby we would propose “benchmark” goals of service by the collaboratives. Cindy is to find an “average” number of chat hours done by those not within collaboratives, to take that number off of the “top” of 68 hours (double coverage of the 34-hours of chat service), and then to spread the remaining hours over the collaboratives proportionally based on collaborative size. (This was done, and Neal has volunteered to elaborate—ct.)

5. Agenda for next meeting---AskUsNow!, should we continue?