Faculty Library Committee Meeting Minutes 11/9/09
Members present: D. Affleck, B. Brown, J. Burroughs, K. James, A. Klene, M. McHugh, J.
Montaban, N. Vonessen
Ex-Officio present: Dean Allen
Members absent/excused: C. Exley, S. Guihemotonia, R. Guthrie, A. Xue
The meeting was called to order at 4:10 p.m. by Chair McHugh
The minutes from 10/12/09 were amended and approved.
Communications:
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The Committee will not meet in December, unless there is pressing business.
Updates from Dean Allen
 Professor Samson, currently working in Information and Research Services will return to her
position as the Humanities Librarian this spring.
 The library will have staff seminars over winter break on team organization and planning.
There will likely be staff reorganization starting spring semester.
 The Foundation’s fundraising feasibility study indicates the Learning Commons project is
feasible and identified possible donors. Marketing efforts will start soon.
 Undergraduate research workshops are planned for December. A document outlining the
workshops was disseminated to the committee. It was recommended that the workshops be
open to graduate students as well.
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Professor Brown gave a demonstration of the federated search tool
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/find/summon/). The description from the vendor
is below:
The Summon™ web-scale discovery service allows the researcher to quickly search,
discover and access reliable and credible library content. It goes beyond federated search,
beyond next-generation catalogs to create an all-new service for libraries. Through one
simple search, Summon™ provides instant access to the breadth of authoritative content
that's the hallmark of great libraries - digital and print, audio and video, single articles to
entire e-journals, and every format in between. No need to broadcast searches to other
databases - it provides one search box for a researcher to enter any terms they want and
quickly get credible results in one relevancy ranked-list.
http://www.serialssolutions.com/summon/
The tool would be fully integrated with all the Library’s holdings. It helps users find
material without knowing where to look. It is a major improvement to the current system
and would cost approximately $50,000 compared to the current $10,000. It is hoped that the
new search tool will be available spring semester.
New Business

Nomination of chair-elect was postponed until spring semester.
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Members should send comments about the procedure document to the Chair McHugh.
Camie will send the link to the online document.
Good and Welfare:
The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 p.m.