GoPig meeting of January 19, 1995   
at CU Boulder's Government Publications Library

Present:  Suzanne Taylor, Fred Schmidt, Lou Anderson - CSU;  Louise Treff, Marit 
MacArthur - Auraria; Mark Anderson - UNC; Lisa Stromberg - CO School of Mines; 
Jean Stefancic - CU Law Library; Yolanda Maloney - CU Business Library; Rob 
Jackson - Denver Public Library; Deb Van Tassel, Debbie Hollis, Tim Byrne - CU Boulder. 

Chinook update:  Chinook is CU Boulder's new OPAC (Online Public Access 
Catalog).  Debbie Hollis distributed user guides for Chinook, the new OPAC for 
CU Boulder.  She reported that the January 10th ribbon cutting ceremony 
was a success.  New Chinook terminals were in place at the Government 
Publications Library as well as a partial LAN for demonstration purposes.   
The regents and the president were unable to attend that day but are 
scheduled for a private demonstration in the near future.  The GoPig group 
took a break to try out Chinook and the LAN. 

The government publications database is not yet loaded on Chinook.  CU 
patrons must connect to CARL for database 83 and 84 in order to access 
federal and Colorado state publications.  Tim explained that the entire 
database has been loaded although recently it was discovered that some 
60,000 serial records are missing.   A gap tape consisting of new cataloging 
records from July 1994 to the present will be loaded after the BNA tapes are 
loaded at an undetermined future date.   Right now the CU CARL database is 
a more accurate reflection of CU's holdings.  It is hoped that CARL users will 
be able to access CHINOOK by the end of June via a gateway option.   Right 
now the PAC, cataloging and circulation modules are up with the serials and 
acquisitions modules scheduled for operation in February.  Jean Stefansic 
discussed how happy the CU Law Library is with their III system.  

Tim was asked if CU will discard their shelf list.  He responded that this will 
not happen for a while.  The Marcive tapes need to be loaded first.   The 
initial plan is to load the Colorado state publications database to a work file 
and discontinue that shelf list. 

Next meeting:  CU Business librarian Yolanda Maloney agreed to host the 
next GoPig meeting on Wednesday, February 22nd at 10:30 a.m.   [NOTE:  
Since this meeting Tim's department has scheduled interviews with four 
candidates for the international documents position.  The next GoPIG meeting 
has not yet been determined.  Information will be posted on CoGOPUB-L as 
soon as arrangements are made.]

MARCIVE update:  Louise Treff reported that this project is progressing 
slowly.  Everyone is supposed to be working on their profiles.  It looks like 
the CO School of Mines will be completed first.  Lisa Stromberg reported that 
she completed approximately 70% of their profiling.  Louise stated that CARL 
held a Marcive loader meeting to work on the specifications.  The Alliance 
has a full time programmer assigned to the Marcive project.  Mark Anderson 
from UNC reported that he ordered the Marcive CD-ROMs.   Discussion about 
the shipping list service revealed that although libraries must go into this 
service individually, there are savings to be made in the price if five or more 
libraries from the alliance participate.  

CEDIS update:  Debbie Hollis reported her latest phone conversation with a 
representative from the CO Division of Local Government.  The Colorado 
Economic and Demographic Information Service (CEDIS) contains 1990 
census data,  county profiles, county economic series, county population 
projections, community descriptions and much more.  The rep explained that if 
the CEDIS software is distributed free to state data centers, other affiliates 
who are not libraries must also be considered.  In conjunction with 
considering the definition of an "affiliate," the demographers are concerned 
that increased access to the system will result in an increased need of 
technical support.  This is not possible with the current staffing levels of 
the department.  The rep hopes that a final decision will be made by the end of 
January.  Debbie will keep the group posted. 

Depository Library Self Study:  The group discussed GPO's draft of the 
Library Self Study and generally had favorable responses.  Tim,  as a 
regional library, offered to make visits of selective depositories.This process 
would assist the selectives in completing the self study.  With the current 
budget and staffing situation at GPO it might be several years before 
inspectors visit Colorado. 

GPO Access:  Louise reported that Regis University librarian Janet Lee 
approached CARL with the proposal of providing GPO Access through their 
service.   This could be limited to library users only.  Janet spoke to George 
Machovic and recommended that CARL sign a selective housing agreement to 
officially "house" GPO Access for the federal depository libraries. Louise will 
keep the group posted about further developments. 

Discussion:  Fred Schmidt pointed that cost shifting is occuring as more and 
more government resources are becoming available via the Internet.  End 
users and libraries absorb the cost of printing government information 
obtained electronically.  Tim expressed concern about the archival aspect of 
electronic information. 

DPL librarian Rob Jackson distributed a list of extra USGS reports that DPL 
would like to find good homes for.  He will post the list to CoGoPub-L before 
he makes the list available nationally via GOVDOC-L.  

Updates
CSU:  Fred Schmidt reported that CSU is still in the process of conducting 
their mainstreaming of technical services study.  He will gladly share the 
final report with anyone who might be interested in a copy.  

CU Law:  Jean Stefancic stated that CU Law Library will undergo an ABA 
inspection next month.  They are in the process of interviewing candidates 
for a computer reference services librarian position.  CU Law continues to 
create holdings records and is conducting an inventory while doing so.  

Auraria:  Louise said that they have more space due to the remodeling and 
actually have a service window now.  This hopefully will facilitate with 
service to the collection.

CO School of Mines:  Lisa reported that they are beginning to set up a LAN.  
The wiring is near completion.  They received approximately sixty 
applications for the map librarian position.  The School of Mines hopes to 
have a new person in place by the end of the spring semester.  

CU Boulder:  Tim hopes to interview candidates for the international 
documents librarian position in February.  He also announced that CU has the 
Trademark CD-ROMs so patrons can be referred for access to this database.  

The group broke for lunch and some returned to try their hand at various 
government WWW sites in the CU Mac lab.  

Respectfully submitted,

Debbie Hollis