TECHNICAL PROCESSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
November 2, 2000

Present:

Reynaldo Quitos (Chair), Carlo Medina, Sharon Sullivan (recorder), and Lola Willoughby

Absent:

Angela Riggio, Germaine Wadeborn
  1. Lola reported that the “vanilla” DRA Web 2 HTML interface to Classic is up for TPAC to test. Reynaldo will email Classic database control numbers to Lola for testing examples. Lola noted that we can see some 917 values and some mnemonics. TPAC needs to identify the fields we want to be searchable and to display. Darrow Cole of LIS will work with us to make recommended changes. We agreed to email all of TPAC with other suggestions for Darrow:
    1. Do we want to change the name of the URL?
    2. Do we want to change the appearance of the interface? (Since changing this version to look like the OPAC would take about a week, TPAC suggested concentrating on search and display issues first.)
    3. Darrow may be able to pull up the invoice information if we can identify where to find the information we wish to display.
    4. What purchase order information do we want to display?

  2. Reynaldo reported that he met with Cindy Shelton regarding the SRLF deposit procedures and training. He hopes to begin training next week.

  3. We were pleased with the reports that Lola produced on the EJNL report class and CDL subject classes. We agreed that it would be useful to coordinate the wording of the CDL subject classes with all of the UCLA Libraries who might use them. Sharon will write up documentation on EJNL and REORDER. Reynaldo will ask Germaine to write up documentation for the WANTS codes. Once we have documentation examples, we will seek input from a few other expert users before distributing the Report Class and Subject Class documentation to all Classic users.

  4. We reviewed the content and layout of the TPAC website. There were no suggestions for changes to the current website, but we agreed that the layout and document links on the Classic website should be revised so those documents are easier to find. For example, rather than list the full document title on the website, we might want to use brief descriptions. We will discuss further at our next meeting.

  5. We approved the revised minutes of the October 26th meeting.

  6. Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 16, 2000, 10:00 a.m-12:00 p.m. in the YRL Staff Artemis Conference Room. Germaine Wadeborn will take minutes.