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Library Media Directors Council
June 3-4, 1999
Walla Walla Community College

Thursday, June 3
Representatives from the following colleges attended the meeting: John Backes (Shoreline CC, Chair), Myra Van Vactor (Bellevue CC), Charlene Grass (Walla Walla CC), Mary Carr (Spokane CC), Wai Fong Lee (Seattle Central CC), Connie Bakker (North Seattle CC), Mike Gabriel (Lower Columbia College), Tim Fuhrman (Big Bend CC), Katie Foley (Columbia Basin College), Stan Horton (Grays Harbor), Joan Weber (Yakima), Eric Palo (Renton TC), Pier David (Clover Park TC), Jane Blume (Bellingham TC), Dal Symes (Whatcom CC), Mindy Coslor (Skagit Valley), and Kim Nakano (Edmonds CC).

Chairman John Backes called the meeting to order at 1:25 p.m. Sandy Blackaby, Vice President of Instruction at Walla Walla Community College, welcomed LMDC members to the college and gave introductory remarks.

CLAMS
John Backes reported on the Fall meeting that will be held jointly with ACRL. Dal Symes added that the emphasis will be placed on accreditation and assessment.

Washington State Library
Jeanne Crisp explained the process for the spring database trials. She discussed the future of statewide database licensing projects including approaching the legislature for continued funding. If WSL pursues this funding, the proposal must be ready by fall. Public libraries are developing some common measures & definitions for statistics on use of electronic resources. Crisp asked if LMDC was interested in using these or developing other measures.

OCLC/WLN
Sharon West reported on the status of the merger and detailed the support and training that will be available for all libraries. WLN will be a research and development location. Three products will continue: MARS service, college analysis service, and LaserCat. WLN online will cease operation in late summer or early fall.

LCW
Jeanne Crisp distributed a handout from the web site and discussed the projects.

Instruction Commission
Mike McIntire and Sandra Blackaby are the LMDC liaisons to IC. SANDRA discussed the Commission's interest and work in the following areas: articulation and transfer of students, acceptance of the Associate of Science degree, advanced placement credit acceptance, transfer by major, approval of programs by Vo-Tec Council, ITPG and work on ASAP, WAOL & Virtual Campus, accountability and performance measures, Workfirst, public school reform & certificate of mastery implications for community colleges, faculty raises and part time faculty pay.

WACTC
WACTC met to discuss the WAOL/Virtual Campus governance structure. WACTC is envisioning a non-profit corporation.

ITC
Wai Fong and Mary Carr reported on the ASAP project. This has been the focus of the ITC meetings. The fit-gap analysis projects substantially higher costs for this project.

The meeting adjourned at 5:25 p.m.

Friday June 4, 1999

John Backes called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Discussion about electronic resources use statistics continued. LMDC will work with Jeanne Crisp to develop.

LCW/LSTA
Members discussed project priorities and defined 8 items of particular interest. It was agreed that LMDC should apply for an LSTA grant in the coming application cycle related to Connectivity. It was suggested that LMDC focus on a grant to acquire OCLC SiteSearch WebZ software to create a common interface for catalog access to all Z39.50 compliant community and technical colleges. A committee will form for this purpose. Areas of interest identified were:

• Statewide Database Licensing Project
• Information Literacy
• Information Technology Literacy
• Connectivity
• Series of Electronic Reference Workshops
• Continuing Education Grants
• Digital Imaging Project – Phase 2
• Technology Modeling/Research and Development

See LCW web page: www.statelib.wa.gov/libraries/lib_council/5_99_notes.htm
See Also: LSTA Ad Hoc Committee notes in these Minutes

Distance Education Standards
The committee is gathering comments and will continue with this work. A first draft of a statement of library distance learning standards was distributed and some suggestions were made regarding content. See attached document. Connie Bakker will replace John Thompson on this committee. Other committee members are: Kim Nakano, Jane Blume, and Stan Horton.

Conspectus
Joan Weber will work with WLN to get systemwide aggregate data. LMDC will need to fund this activity either by billing individual colleges or using LMDC funds and billing back to the group.

LMDC web page
The page is now located at CIS at www.cis.ctc.edu/pub/groups/lmdc.
Please review and check for accuracy/currency. Suggestions and changes should be directed to Jeanne Leader.

Nominating Committee
Stan Horton, Deb Gilchrist, Mary Carr and John Thompson served on the committee. The following officers were elected: Vice chair/chair elect (Kim Nakano), secretary (Jeanne Leader) and treasurer (Mary Carr - subject to approval by the college business office). Joan Weber is the incoming chair.

Meeting dates
Future meeting dates were agreed upon as follows:

• July 23 - planning meeting at Mt. Vernon, Yakima, or Peninsula
• November 4 & 5 - Spokane
• February 3 & 4 - South Seattle
• May 4 & 5 - Yakima

Presidents Academy
John Backes explained that LMDC is still in the queue to give a 1.5 hour presentation to this group. Format for the presentation is typically a panel individuals each speaking to some aspect of service/issues focused on a theme. A question and answer period then follows the presentation. Discussion followed about the possibility of including an outside expert, perhaps from the University of Washington, as part of this program.

Legislative Sub-Committee
Mary Carr provided information about an upcoming joint hearing on technology needs for community colleges. LMDC would like to see the focus placed on instruction. The LMDC working committee includes: Mindy McCormick, Joan Weber and Mary Carr. They will contact WLA lobbyist Steve Beckham for assistance and will keep the membership informed through the listserv.

LMDC Goals
John Backes discussed an end-of-the-year report. Of the nine goals identified for this past year the Council accomplished five. A discussion related to limiting the size of annual goals ensued. See attached document. This will serve as a starting point for the July LMDC meeting.

Committee structure
The executive committee will discuss current structure and membership. Members were asked to send to the listserv any information that they have regarding committee purpose and membership.

OCLC/WLN Directors Meeting
New products will be introduced that may have significant impact. LMDC will form a committee to work with OCLC to identify what college libraries need and what the company can provide.

LSTA Ad Hoc Committee
This new committee has as its charge to apply for an LSTA Connectivity 99 Grant. The committee will discuss the feasibility of a site search license to create a virtual connection among the various online catalogs. The following members will serve on this committee: Charlene Grass, Mindy McCormick, Bob Nesam (Spokane Community College: volunteered by Mary Carr), and Jeff Martin (Washington State Library).

The meeting adjourned at 11:40 a.m.

It is the responsibility of the individual parent institutions to decide how to accomplish these objectives.