Adult Education Resource DB Minutes

Adult Education Work Group

Meeting 9/20/01

Attendance:

üJane Martel

üSara Callaway

üJackie Korengel

üRosie Maum

üErin O'Donnel

üSusan Browm

üBeth Kraemer

(I forgot to list attendees in my notes. Please send corrections to this list to Susan!)

Beth will ask Dave about how this is done. We should be able to track users by KYVL group (public library user, K-12, public university....), but we might not be able to get more specific than that. We want to see if we can track anything about what the user does within the interface (using canned searches vs. doing their own searches, for example).

The results were used to make lots of changes to the interface, most of which were in place by the KAACE conference (Sept 11).
We basically feel that the interface looks good. Here are a few other things to look at:

Is it possible to provide a truncated view of the "description" field in the brief results? That would give people a better idea of what the resource is about, before deciding to go to the full record. (Beth will check)
Add "digitized document" as one of the types you can use to limit a search (in addition to "Web Resource" and "Resource Review")

We're still on for Oct as date to get records from LINCs.
We are working on a contract with OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.) to do the "catalogging" of the records we plan to contribute to LINCs. All states contributing to LINCs are supposed to have their records checked by cataloggers before adding them to the database. Kentucky doesn't have a catalogger available for this, so the OCLC contract will serve this purpose. The purpose of having a catalogger work on the records is to improve completeness, accuracy, and consistency of the information, in compliance with LINCs catalogging instructions.

The "Phase I" site is the interface we have developed for Adult Education Instructors. Phase II is to develop an access point for the database for Learners.
I did not have very good notes here at all! Anyone want to contribute?

Traning sessions to be held for Adult Educators around the state.
We suggest one person from each site, someone willing to go back and train others.
Looking at dates in Nov. and Dec. Because people come to Lexington and Louisville to Christmas shop anyway, we decided to hold sessions only in those locations during these busy months and schedule for other locations in the state in the spring.
Rosie is arranging the Louisville site and Beth will arrange Lexington. Looking for 3 sessions in each location: Friday morning, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning.

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