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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:13:59 -1000
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From:         K T McCann <ktm3@PO.CWRU.EDU>
Subject:      Eastern Great Lakes User's Group report
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REPORT OF THE SPRING MEETING

EASTERN GREAT LAKES III USERS' GROUP

MARCH 20, 1992

The meeting was held at Case Western Reserve University.  Twenty-nine
people representing 12 institutions were present.  Eric Carpenter gave a
report on the III National Users Group meeting at ALA Midwinter.  Jerry
Klein reported that Innovative had a total of 251 sites including ones
outside the US in Hong Kong and Australia.  Release 8 is coming.  Service
hours are expanded and everyone has been notified.  Faye Chartoff, VP of
Operations reported that they had a staff increase of 61% for customer
support.

Anita Cook, Director of Library Systems for OhioLINK reported that Miami
and Cincinnati are up and running ; CWRU, Central State, Wright State, BGSU
are in various stages and hope to be up by fall.  They are hoping for 10
new sites next year.  Document delivery, both manual and electronic, is a
major goal of OhioLINK.  Some initiation of Document Delivery will be
taking place in the next fiscal year (1992-1993).

Anita also spoke on behalf of the National Users Group.  They are still
hoping for a 2 day meeting with workshops, but dues will be necessary.  A
dues structure is being proposed in the new IUG Bylaws, and if the Bylaws
are approved, the dues will be implemented for next year (probably 1993).
The Bylaws ballot should be out in April.  The National Users Group is
looking for a chair-elect for the coming year.   Anyone interested should
contact Anita at OhioLINK (anita@ohiolink.edu)

We then broke into these interest groups:
 	Serials: discussed title changes and cessations, shared procedures, and
will discuss binding at the next meeting.
 	Acquisitions: discussed use of vendor statistics, how to program for
analysis, and will discuss claiming of monographs at the next meeting.
	 System Managers: met with Anita.  The only people who showed up for this
break-out group were from Kent State.  So, they talked specifically about
local issues of getting Kent State's database off of NOTIS and on to III.
	 PAC was merged with General, and had a demonstration of Freenet.

We circulated a form to see what breakout sessions people are interested
in.  Oberlin volunteered to host the Fall Meeting tenatively set for
October.  Sandy indicated a willingness to come back if we would notify her
of a date soon enough that she could plan an Ohio trip around the meeting.
We still need agenda items.  E-mail Sheila Randel at Internet address
ba470@cleveland.freenet.edu with your requests or to volunteer.

No one volunteered to be chairperson for the coming year, but several
people are considering.  If you are interested please contact Sheila at
216-646-8185, or her Internet address listed above.

After lunch, we had a presentation by Sandy Weaver on the uses of
statistics.  Sandy also answered questions aobut III in general.

Since everyone at the meeting has some connection to this list, this report
will not be distributed by mail, but through the listserv.

Report prepared by Sheila Randel; typos belong to KT McCann
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