34 2002
January 23, 2002. Sam Richter, president of the Hill Group, presented his perspective for a relationship between Hill Library and CLIC. Individual institutions would make their own decisions concerning future relationship with Hill.
Work began on the search for a replacement for Althea Parent, CLIC Office Manager/Bookkeeper, who was leaving in March, 2002.
The Board voted to incorporate the Audio-Visual group into the ASEC (Access Executive Committee) structure as a Working Group.
The PART group worked on ways to “tweak” III Millennium to achieve the desired result with regard to uniform titles.
The III User Group enhancement voting process was discussed. CLIC working groups voted on items appropriate to their responsibilities and the CLIC office forwarded the results.
Chris Olson (CLIC) was elected and served as the Minnesota Library Association’s president for 2002.
February 13, 2002. The CLIC Remote Access Task Force: Joslin (MAC), Kenney (MNK). Kreitzer (MNE) issued a preliminary report on four main authentication options: 1. standard proxy servers, 2. Ezproxy, 3. III Web Access Management, and 4. third party authentication services.
February 27, 2002. The E-Journals Task Force recommendations were accepted. A working group was established.
Lost book reconciliation was under discussion once again. Decision was to leave the current assessment of $50 per book in place.
Discussion of staffing for the system resulted in the formation of a group to study needs and make recommendations. Task Force: S. Anderson (MNA), Suderman (MNK), Satzer (TL#), Borowske (MNH), Hogan (MNA), Joslin (MAC), Waage (CLIC).
March 27, 2002. The CLIC Communications Ad Hoc Subgroup issued a report on actions taken to improve communication during III Implementation.
Nancy Hegdahl, Parent’s successor as CLIC Bookkeeper/Office Manager, was welcomed to CLIC.
The System Administrative Task Force created a list of tasks/responsibilities needed in CLIC’s systems administration role. Board discussion pointed out that III is a complicated system which requires more staff to do the consortium wide centralized work. The III system caused ASAs to take on more CLIC wide responsibilities. The Board recommended that the ASA Group create a proposal for a Systems Operations Group including identification of persons to be named to the group.
The Board also directed the Implementation Committee to review the list of tasks/responsibilities to determine a job description for an additional CLIC staff member.
The Board expressed concerns about III’s delivery and implementation of the system.
April 24, 2002. Olson (CLIC) reported that the old HP machine had been hacked in April and Waage (CLIC) had quickly recognized and solved the problem. The Board gave Waage recognition for his excellent performance.
Important documentation concerning the implementation and maintenance of the III system is included in these minutes. One result was the Board directive to rewrite CLIC staff job descripti