Present: Chris Hanson, Chair (University of Texas at San Antonio), David
Shontz (University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio), Scott Downing (East Texas State University), Tim
Prather (Amigos Library Services, Inc.), Nancy Paine (University
of Texas at Austin), Shawna Kennedy-Witthar (West Texas A&M
University), David Gunn (Tarlton Law Library, University of
Texas at Austin), Rebecca Linton (Texas State Library), Linda
Thompson (University of Houston)
Participation in the Texas Statewide Union List was discussed. It was
decided that the protocol should recommend that all TexShare libraries
participate. Non-participants would be urged to join, and participants
would be strongly encouraged to keep their holdings up-to-date. The
benefit of using the union list for collection development was mentioned
as an incentive as well.
It was agreed that the group would recommend that OCLC and Docline ILL
statistics be obtained and that TexShare should pay for these reports.
The question of non-OCLC libraries was raised, and it was agreed that all
TexShare libraries (present and future) should be encouraged to
participate in OCLC at least to the extent of joining a GAC for ILL
purposes.
The concept of creating subsets of TexShare libraries to facilitate and
promote the use of Ariel was discussed. The working group would like to
identify and organize such groups. OCLC ILL statistics could be used to
identify current borrowing and lending patterns among TexShare libraries,
and this information could be useful in establishing Ariel subgroups.
Nancy Paine and Tim Prather will work out the details of designing such a
report.
The desirability of establishing a statewide delivery or courier service
was discussed. The group is very much in favor of this idea and
recommends that TexShare address this need in the future.
The draft protocol was reviewed and suggestions for changes were made.
The group asked Linda Thompson to survey TexShare libraries regarding the
usage of Ariel. She will do so.