Bob Neville spoke briefly about the activities of CoastNet, the Charleston-based consortium. The meeting concluded with demonstrations by Data Research representatives Jane Haller and Linda Hendrix of the journal citation module, Z39.50 software, and the Windows-based public access client. Sadly, due to the devastating floods in southeastern Georgia, several users were unable to attend. Jane Haller from DRA was on hand to discuss Z39.50, planned enhancements with v2.4, and Open Dranet. Based on evaluations and verbal feedbak, all who attended found the meeting useful and had a good two days.
Discussion is underway for next year's meeting.
There were approximately 12 people attending from eight libraries. Only a couple of libraries admitted to using the subscription PO functions in acquisitions for their financial management. Vendor training was strongly recommended as helping the users to be able to think through these decisions. One library was interested in the feasibility of getting another library's pattern records so they wouldn't have to create their own. Cynthia said that DRA could write custom programing, but any arrangements would have to be between the two libraries involved.