Message-Id: <sd1354d1.086@langate.gsu.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:31:07 -0400 From: "Karen Douglas" <LAWKBD@langate.gsu.edu> Subject: Re: [lawvoyage] lawvoyage: NEED YOUR COMMENTS ASAP
Hi LawVoyagers:
As you may or may not know I am a member of the serials enhancement
committee for Voyager. I have taken a while to respond because I had to go
through several documents to make a relevant response. I was at VUGM in
April where we crafted our problem statements. I gave a copy of our LAWVUG
enhancement requests to Linda Miller, from LC who is chair of the serials
enhancement committee. She will also been act as a consultant to the
Acquisitions Task Force which will be studying all the acquisitions and
serials problem statements and our law-vug statements, which fall mainly
in the acquisitions module. They will meet in Chicago on July 9.
All of the Enhancement Subcommittee chairs met last week in Atlanta at ALA
to rank the problem statements of all the modules overall. All of the
sub-committees were so upset with the lack of response by Endeavor to
their hard work with last year's statements, that most of the subcommittees
voted to resubmit their statements from last year. The Serials subcommitt
ee resubmitted their requests from last year.
Our number one request that fuller implementation of the MARC 21 holdings
format for prediction was voted number 2 overall, being beaten out only by
Sys Admin Security granularity. The Acquisitions request for increased
operator control came in at number 3. These 2 items will cover a number of
our problems.
In light of that I think we might want combine number 4 on our recommendati
on list with number 2 and call it something like component level functional
ity (feel free to come up with another term), since this issue wasn't
really covered in any of the top ranked enhancements, and call it number
2. Number 3 would remain the same.
Although a strongly worded memo was attached to the ranked problem
statements "encouraging" Endeavor to be more pro-active this time around,
I think they are still planning to throw everything acquistions related
into the lap of the task force which meets July 9. Hopefully Endeavor will
listen to them.
Karen
Karen B. Douglas
Head of Technical Services
Georgia State University
College of Law Library
140 Decatur Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 651-4122 (phone)
(404) 651-1112 (fax)
lawkbd@langate.gsu.edu
>>> arrabbia@law.syr.edu 06/21/02 11:57AM >>>
Everyone,
I had an opportunity to speak with Margerie Bloss from Endeavor at ALA.
She suggested that I send our "Revised law enhancement recommendations"
to Bob Persing, chair of the Acquisitions Task Force, and to her (to
submit to Jim Meese, who has temporarily taken over Reeta Sinha's role
since she left).
However, Margerie wants to be certain that the enhancements requested
here are still our top priorities. Please let me know ASAP if these are
still your top priorities.
The list is attached, but is also available at:
http://law.pepperdine.edu/voyager/
Thanks,
Andrea
Andrea Rabbia
Technical Services Librarian
H. Douglas Barclay Law Library
Syracuse University College of Law
E.I. White Hall
Syracuse, New York 13244-1030
315-443-9562
315-443-9567 (fax)
arrabbia@law.syr.edu