Hi everyone. The minutes from January 24th are now on the blog and available for follow-up and review pending acceptance at the February 28th meeting.
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Link to WebJunction’s Virtual Reference
Information about providing patrons with access to reference services online.

http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation;jsessionid=512625C983E57FEBAF496B6D6F47C8E5?category=11649

Includes
Evaluation and Research, Technical Standards, Conference Proceedings, & Community

Presentations from the 2005 VRD Conference

In response to a proposal from the Reference & Instruction Committee, the eLibrary/RIC subcommittee is implementing a new field in the Database Information Resources pages. The new field will include information about RefWorks. You can see a template of the new page here: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopagetemp.cfm?id=196 Please post comments to the blog if you have any questions or concerns about the wording or placement of this new field.There are some problems with certain vendors (Ovid/Silver Platter, Proquest/Chadwyck Healey, etc.) but we are working on a solution for these cases.

[E-mail from Tue Jan 10 2006 - 13:55:28 PST - http://riondel.library.ubc.ca/maillist/lib-ri-ctee/0601/0525.html]

Happy 2006 and hello all
Here are some ideas for upcoming meeting, please send your comments and suggestions for agenda.

A Volunteer needed to set up the conference phone & call Jan Gatrell at UBCO for the January meeting. Please contact me if you can do this.
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RIC Agenda January 2006

1.Accept minutes (not yet available)
Q1.Roundtable minutes and conference phone duty – new volunteer at end of each meeting.
Q2. expand meeting to 2 hours

2.Nomination of Rep from PS and RIC for SubCommittee to discuss the Future – Management of Subject Headings for eResources

3.Viewlet Webinar

4.ID gaps in Publications
including
Need for Instruction for creating persistent links to articles under Faculty section (in the gold banner)
Example: www.lib.umassd.edu/reference/CreateLinks.html

5.Report on Cross Training Project
Phase 2 Reference in the Science Protoflio January – April 2006

6.TAG Advisory Group Jan 24th
TAG newsletter editor Alice Cassidy

7.Instructional Improvement:
Thanks for feedback from LAB and Woodward librarians.

8.Outreach & PR
Senate November : Some important funding for libraries, if the legislation passes, will come from the post secondary “Innovation Fund” (targeted at libraries, learning environments and persons with disabilities) and an increase in indirect costs of research funding.
Senate December: MF noted Senate unaware of UBC Library Instructional programs.
Urge librarians to join non-library centered groups on campus that deal with teaching & learning 4-5 of these in TAG program.

How about a RIC hosted session on What’s new in the Library
to cover library searching, new tools, equipment, etc.
Staff Traing & Developemnt Librarian to arrange.

9.Outreach Proposal
Does RIC support this project?
Development office Mona Chan: there is opportunity for funding.
Do we recommend admin support?
SFU success/award for innovation.
Go to students at: orientations, conferences, presentations.
Can we complete our proposal and send as reco to Admin.

10.Multiplatform IM support?
Who is currently doing IM?
SFU, @ UBC Katerine Miller. Sally Taylor, Kristina McDavid

11. Look at past minutes & BLOG projects & recommendations ID what has been left .

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Deborah Wilson
deborah.wilson@ubc.ca
Reference Librarian @MacMillan Library
(Agricultural Sciences & Forestry)
University of British Columbia
2357 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
tel.604-822-0295
fax.604-822-9544