[Asis-l] Minutes from Standards Committee meeting at ASIST 2011

[Mark Needleman]

I thought the minutes of the Standards committee at ASIST 2011 might be of interest to the membership, especially points 5 and 6

Mark Needleman 
Chair 
ASIST Standards Committee 

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Standards Committee Meeting – 10.09.2011 – Balcony K 5:30 pm

 

Attending: Mark Needleman, Chair,  Florida Center for Library Automation

                Gail Thornburg,  OCLC

                Timothy Dickey,  Kent State University

                               

1.         Mark opened with an over view of standards work during the year.    Attendees reviewed current efforts they are engaged in.

2.       Mark noted there is one out for vote TR87  due October 16th.

3.        Question was raised  as to the current membership of the Standards Committee.  Mark will investigate

4.         Mark noted we need to consider whether we will submit a proposal for a panel on Standards for next year’s ASIST Annual Meeting.   Last year we had a presentation on identifiers

5.       The ASIST web page now contains a record of  the votes  the Standard Committee has made over the last year or so.    This is found under committees.    This area also contains  slides from the 2010 presentations at the standards panel. 

To access the Standards committee web page:


A) go to

http://www.asis.org

B) Select Committees from the pull down list at the top left corner of the page labeled 

Quick Links

C) Click on Standards

D) Click on

Click here for more information 

6) The Standards committee is always looking for people who are interested in either joining the committee and being part of it's work or being added to the committee mailing list to be kept aware of the committee's activities. We are also eager to hear from the ASIST membership about ideas on standards they would like to see on future programs.

If you are interested in the work of the Standards committee or have ideas for future standard related sessions, please contact

Mark Needleman 
Chair
ASIST Standards Committee 

mneedlem at ufl.edu


Committee adjourned at about 6:15.

Minutes of committee meeting provided by Gail Thornburg