The Wayne Information Network met on March 17, 1999 at 4:00 PM in the media center of Goldsboro Middle School, Ramona Dunkley, hostess. In attendance were:
 
 
 

Barefoot, Gary	Mount Olive College	658-7168	gbarefoot@exchange.moc.edu
Dunkley, Ramona	Goldsboro Middle School	731-5940	goldsm@pindigital.net
Edwards, Marie	Cherry Hospital Library	731-3447	medwards@dhr.state.nc.us
Hodges, Judy	Wayne Community College	735-5151	judyh@wcc.wayne.cc.nc.us
Jones, Shirley	Wayne Community College	735-5151	sj@wcc.wayne.cc.nc.us
Kester, Diane D.	East Carolina University	252-328-4389	lsddkest@eastnet.ecu.edu
Parris, Susan	Wayne Community College	735-5151	sparris@wcc.wayne.cc.nc.us
Pierce, Olivia W.	Wayne County Public Schools	705-6169	opierce@pdcn.net
Rustin, Jane	Wayne County Public Library	735-1835	jrustin@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
Ryberg, Susan G.	Mount Olive College	658-7168	sryberg@exchange.moc.edu
Whitesell, Bonnie	Wayne Country Day School	736-1045	b_whitesell@hotmail.com

Other personnel and e-mail changes:

Cliff Rhodes - WCPL - <crhodes@pdcn.net>
Jim Whalen and Kevin Harden are no longer at WCPL.

After a period of refreshments and informal person to person networking, the meeting was called to order by Gary Barefoot, chair.  A welcome to Goldsboro Middle School and the media center was extended by Ramona Dunkley, media coordinator.

Business Meeting
Gary expressed a continuing concern about communication with members about meetings. Individual e-mail addresses are being established for the school media coordinators and efforts will be made for the next meeting to give more advanced notice. Diane asked to be notified of personnel and e-mail changes.

Minutes of the previous meeting are available online at http://www.esn.net/win/11-12-98.htm.

Announcements

1. Gary had been prepared to introduce the new librarian at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Library, Chris Jones; however, Mr. Jones was unable to attend this meeting.
2. Gary introduced the new director of Wayne Public Library, Jane Rustin, who thanked the members for her warm welcome to Goldsboro and Wayne County.
3. Bonnie complimented the public library's web pages, especially the links to government documents.
4. Gary reported on the progress of the WIN Union List of Serials.  He has received some updated information from the individual libraries but would like the other updates by mid April.  If a library has a broken lot of a title, he suggested checking with other libraries to fill in their run.
5. If any library would like the list of titles that are indexed in NCLIVE, Susan has that available on a disk.

1. Mount Olive College -
• Gary distributed information about the MOC online catalog, MOOPAC. The URL is http://www.mountolive.edu/Academics/Moye/moye.html .  A person may search by author, title, LC subject heading, or keyword. Use of punctuation, including dashes, sometimes are "less-than-successful."
• Three more terminals for NCLIVE and Internet use have been purchased through a grant from the state library.
• Gary announced that he has submitted a letter of retirement after this semester. He is looking forward to retirement.
2. Wayne Community College
• Judy reported that she has been updating the serials holdings at WCC for the Wayne County Union List of Serials.
• Twenty four computer stations are now available in the library for student use.  The library was successful in their applications from grants available through the State Library.
• Susie has been weeding the audio-visual collection, reviewing the reserve collection, and providing student assistance.  Several schools have visited the library this spring.
3. Wayne County Public Library
• Jane announced that the library would be closed soon to allow for the installation of upgraded  public access terminals.
• Also, the fiction collection will be re-integrated after having been separated by genre for some time.
4. Goldsboro Middle School
• Ramona reported that the school has installed the network with access in every classroom, 30 stations in a lab, and 3 stations in the media center.  A faculty AUP has been adopted and the faculty is discussing acceptable use policies by students.
5. Wayne Country Day School
• Bonnie announced that the school is not completely wired and now they are working on acquiring the hardware and server for a network.
6. Cherry Hospital
• Marie announced that the library at Cherry Hospital now has a part-time assistant. This has freed her to work more with services to patrons across the campus.
• A Y2K coordinator has been hired to assure Year 2000 compliance of all computers at the Hospital.
7. Wayne County Schools
• Olivia announced that there will be two new schools in August, Rosewood Elementary School and Spring Creek Elementary School. The current Rosewood Elementary will become the Rosewood Middle School.
• E-rate application has been approved moving the schools to 70% completion of the LAN within 5 months.  This will provide 5 drops per classroom.  The schools are investigating leasing of hardware.
• The Y2K study is underway.  The MLC company from Greenville is working with them.
• An allocation of $150,000 for upgrading the book collections has been made.
• Olivia distributed bookmarks for the Wayne County Public Schools web page. http://www.waynecountyschools.org/
8. East Carolina University
• Diane announced the Southeastern Regional Technology and Teaching Conference March 24-26th at the Hilton and Ramada Inn in Greenville.
• She also announced the retirement of Dr. Gene Lanier on 1 July.

• A lengthy discussion was held on acceptable use at Internet workstations and providing of guidance for student use.  Susan has found through experience that individual logins is one way to monitor use.
• Gary appointed Marie Edwards and Ramona Dunkley to serve on the Nominating Committee.  Nominations for chair and for recorder will be voted upon at the May meeting.

Diane Kester, Recorder
Gary Barefoot, Chair

Microfiche being discarded by the Goldsboro Wayne County Public Library (contact Gary Barefoot for current availability to be transferred to another library)
 

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