LMDC Spring 2001 Meeting

LIBRARY MEDIA DIRECTOR'S COUNCIL
Minutes
May 7-8, 2001
Clark College
Vancouver, WA

Present: Present: Myra Van Vactor, Bellevue; Jane Blume, Bellingham; Tim Fuhrman, Big Bend; Leonoor Ingraham-Swets, Clark; Mike Gillman, Edmonds; Stan Horton, Grays Harbor; Kim Nakano, Green River; Maria Paz, North Seattle; Judith Cunneen, Olympic; Christie Flynn, Pierce; Wai-Fong Lee, Seattle Central; John Backes, Shoreline; Mary Ann Goodwin, Spokane Falls; Ann Daly, Walla Walla; Linda Lambert, Whatcom. Also attending: Nancy Peterson, CIS; Loretta Seppanon, SBCTC; Patty Ayala, State Library.

Kim Nakano, chairperson, called the meeting to order at 9:00 AM.

MINUTES
Minutes of the February 5-6, 2001, meeting were reviewed and amended. Minutes were approved as amended.

TREASURER'S REPORT
Mary Ann Goodwin presented the Treasurer's Report for Mary Carr. There is $2,488.58 in the treasury. The report was approved.

INSTRUCTION COMMISSION
Loretta Seppanon, SBCTC, reported for Dorna Bulpit, Clover Park. The IC's last workshop was on how to recruit and keep a diverse faculty.

Virtual Campus (http://www.virtualcampus.ctc.edu/): The governance is based on the structure of CIS. There are many concerns about the governance structure. Budget remains to be funded for fiscal year. Services planned are only for technical support.

Budget issues, 2002-2003: Will request a pocket of FTE's for campuses that over-enroll, thus making it so the college will receive more money that just tuition.

Articulation: A committee has been formed to investigate articulation between two-year colleges. Previously, only articulation from two to four-year colleges has been addressed. The committee may report back the need for common course numbers across the state.

SBCTC
Loretta Seppanon passed out the Capitol Budget. Grays Harbor, Lake Washington, Renton, and Big Bend are all on the list for new or remodeled libraries. Buildings that have matching funds from the Foundation are always considered first. No library has ever been on that list. Renovations are considered second; major projects/new buildings are considered last. New buildings are at least a six-year process.

Campus Analysis Model: There will be a new CAM model that will need to start at the local campus level.

Project: Help four-year institutions make AAS and technical degrees transfer to four- year institutions. There are two approaches. 1) Career Ladder-such as nursing. The AA degree grants an RN. There will be an agreement for specific classes and courses that will transfer to the BA. Eastern Washington University has Career Ladders with Civil Engineering and Social Work/Geriatrics. 2) Upside-Downside Degree-Student receives a technical degree first which will cover most of the student's requirements for a major. The bulk of the last two years will be spent studying the undergraduate requirements for a BA degree. Land-grant institutions tend to be the universities that participate in these arrangements.
Washington State University is rapidly moving toward online education. Currently it has the following degrees available online: Business Administration, Social Science, Human Development. MIS under the Business Administration department is under development.

CIS
Rehosting HP3000's software: Nancy Peterson reported on CIS's rehosting of the HP3000's 15-year-old software. CIS is redesigning the software to keep its functionality, but also to make it easier to enhance. It will become relational instead of hierarchical. CIS received 16 responses to its initial RFI. It is now in RFP process for the project plan. The rehosting will be done one college at a time.

Social Security numbers: CIS has until July 2002 to change from using Social Security numbers for student identification numbers. The first estimate for this change was 5700 hours or 3 programmer years. CIS is investigating a smaller fix.

Internet2: Mike Scroggins is putting together more information about the changes and implications Internet2 will bring. Internet2 is a second Internet from the "commodity Internet." It is faster and cheaper and will allow access to other educational institutions. Instructors will have access to rapid development tools. Within the next couple of months, colleges will receive a list of what changes need to be made, if any, to access Internet2.

Internet costs: This year, Internet costs grew 350%. Previously, they grew at a 5% rate. Further down the line, colleges may pay for Internet by usage rate.

NOMINATION COMMITTEE
John and Myra were appointed. They will e-mail a slate of nominees for next year's officers by the end of May.

FUTURE MEETINGS
Loretta Seppanon recommended that LMDC hold its Winter meeting in the Olympia area. It appears that the first Thursday/Friday of the month will not interfere with other Council meetings. Kim will contact different colleges and report back to the membership about future locations and dates.

LIBRARY COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON
John Backes reported that there were 14 initiative proposals. Initiatives funded included: Connecting through Information Literacy, Cultural Diversity, Digital Imaging, Early Learning Initiative, Technology training (LITWIG), Statewide Database Licensing, Virtual Reference (#2 priority), Washington State Library for the Blind software.

"Libraries=Information Power" is the theme of the marketing plan for the Information Literacy initiative. The focus is on training K-12 and public librarians in information literacy.

LIBRARY-MEDIA SERVICES TO DISTANCE LEARNERS
John Backes passed out a follow-up document to the one approved by LMDC and endorsed by the Distance Learning Council entitled: "Next Steps for Washington Community and Technical Colleges." This document discusses services and resources that would most cost-effectively be provided as a consortium. (WAOL is the instructional arm of the Virtual Branch Campus (VBC).)

At the summer meeting LMDC will look at leveraging LSTA and LSP funds to pursue these ideas.

STATEWIDE DATABASE LICENSING/STATE LIBRARY
Jeanne Crisp, Project Director, has taken a position with the North Carolina State Library. Patty Ayala, project assistant, Statewide Database Licensing Project, reported that Rand Simmons of the Idaho State Library is Jeanne Crisp's replacement. He will start at the beginning of June. Patty Ayala discussed the bill that was introduced for support of statewide databases. It will be considered during the interim session next year. The committee is producing a video about the project. The target audience is legislators. The SDL committee will invite ProQuest to several focus groups with librarians to discuss the problem with statistics. Patty and Jeanne met with the Gale Group. There is supposed to be a proposal for six databases in the next couple of weeks.

A new person has been hired for the Virtual Reference Project-Buff Hirko from Clover Park Technical College.

The State library is moving to a 44,000 sq. ft. building in Tumwater. The legislators will use the State Library Building for office space while their offices are remodeled.

Leonoor Ingraham-Swets proposed a resolution honoring Jeanne Crisp for her work and dedication to the Statewide Database Licensing Project. John Backes moved; Myra Van Vactor seconded the resolution.

DR. TANA HASART, PRESIDENT, CLARK COLLEGE
Dr. Hasart welcomed us to Clark College.

ICCL DIRECTORS
In mid-March, Kim Nakano, Loretta Seppanon, Mindy Coslor, Mary Ann Goodwin and Leonoor Ingraham-Swets met with the Library Directors of the public four-year colleges to discuss joining the Cascade project. (http://cascade.lib.washington.edu/) In 1.5 years, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III) will be upgraded so that the Voyager and the III software can work together.

John Backes suggested that LMDC needs to have a clear endorsement from the library directors (at least 25) of the idea of joining Cascade before proceeding.

The SBCTC's next budget request will include a request for the two-year colleges to join Cascade and the Cooperative Library Project (CLP).

John suggested that Information literacy is an area we need to explore with the four-year colleges to insure that our students are prepared to function at a 300 level of research. The two-year colleges need to be able to state what information literacy skills our students have when they graduate.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Accreditation Workshop will take place at the July meeting, Renton Technical College. Deb Gilchrist is willing to do another workshop on assessment.

DISTANCE LEARNING
The committee is writing a plan and needs two new members.

EBSCO
Blake Albretsen, EBSCO, presented EBSCO's new health databases and XML images. If a library needs to link to serials holdings, give technical support a call.

NEXT MEETING
July 19-20 Renton Technical College