FEDLINK Advisory Council Meeting February 22, 2001       

                                        FAC Present:                            FLICC/FEDLINK Present:
                                                  Bonnie Klein                                      Lynn McDonald
                                        Judy Bullwinkle                         Joseph Banks
                                             Maxine Brown                                 Robin Hatziyannis
Louise LeTendre
                                             Fred Rettenmaier                             FLICC/FEDLINK Absent:
                                             Cheryl Thomas                                Susan Tarr       
Denise Lomax
Maxine Brown

FAC Absent:
Sheila Riley
Carla Pomager

Agenda:
1. Approval of the January 18 FAC Meeting Minutes - FAC

2. FAC Issues and Topics - Bonnie Klein, Chair
        - FEDLINK Membership Meeting Agenda (April 17, 2000, 9am-12pm)

3. FLICC/FEDLINK Update Issues -Susan Tarr, FLICC Executive Director & Lynn
McDonald, FEDLINK Network Coordinator
        a. Website redesign exercise results (Robin Hatziyannis)
        b. Revolving Fund options (Tarr)
        c. Cost/benefits calculator (Tarr)
        d. FY2001 Budget status (Joe Banks)
        e. FY2002 Budget process (Tarr/Rettenmaier)
        f.  OCLC update, including deficits (McDonald)
        g. Consortium update (McDonald)

The meeting convened at 12:30 pm.  Due to a shortened meeting time, the
agenda was reordered and  items 3.f and g. were covered by written updates.

The minutes of the January 18, 2001 meeting were approved.

FAC Issues and Topics: FEDLINK Spring Membership Meeting Agenda (April 17, 2000, 9am-
12pm).  Bonnie Klein reported that Anna Bohlin is coordinating the request from the FAC to
Mrs. Bush asking her to speak at the Spring Membership Meeting.  The request was channeled
through Dr. Billington's office.  There has not been a final answer yet.  However, Donna
Scheeder, President of SLA, is confirmed and will discuss librarian competencies.  The FAC
decided the following FLICC Working Groups should be asked to provide updates:  Education,
IT, Content Management and Policy (for a report on the NCLIS study and recommendations for
NTIS).   It was noted that the FLICC Performance Plan may need to be added to the April FAC
agenda and/or the membership meeting as part of the Executive Director's report.

Revolving Fund.   Joe Banks distributed and sought comments from the FAC on three
implementation models .  Model 1 retains an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAG) essentially like the
current one, but with language changed where necessary to reflect the new legislation instead of
the Economy Act.  Model 2 differed in that agencies would cut purchase orders to the FEDLINK
program.   Model 3 used the Model 2 method with the addition that purchase orders would cite a
Memorandum of Understanding established between LC and each agency, .  Model 1 was
preferred because 1) it avoids the need for a lot of re-education at the agencies, 2) it involves the
same personnel as now at the agencies, and 3) it avoids the need for involving general counsel
offices for an MOU which generally takes a long lead time.  FAC members said they wanted to
take the models back to their agencies to see if local financial officers, general counsels and
procurement staff had another viewpoint.  (NOTE:  Model 1 has subsequently been adopted.)

FLICC Web Site Redesign:   Robin Hatziyannis reported on the results of the FAC and
FEDLINK Network Operations staff concept mapping exercises conducted in December. 
Vendors will also be asked to go through this exercise to better arrange information to meet their
needs.  Dave Pachter helped Robin tally results.  Two categories distinguished themselves: quick
links and secondary page links.  For example,  quick links might include:   What's new, Calendar,
Online registration, and Staff directory ("Who do I call?"). Cross links will be provided; for
example, Education/Training will have a link to information on how to set up a FEDLINK
account.  Publications as a category is becoming obsolete as things are published electronically
instead of on paper.  Federal Library Resources is a catch-all that links to non-FLICC/FEDLINK
information.  Cheryl Thomas recommended having a link to Home on every page.  Robin asked
everyone to send to her their favorite and non-favorite web pages, especially the more odious
ones.   Robin is proceeding with an implementation phase, targeting October 1st as a
provisional launch date for the redesign.

Budget Status:  Joe Banks reported that  FEDLINK service dollars are 5 million below last year,
but similar to other years where continuing resolutions affected the schedule.  He expects it to
pick up in the next quarter.

Budget Working Group:  Joe Banks and Lynn McDonald shared the draft schedule for the
Working Group and noted that the next verbal report to the FAC will be at the April meeting
since the March meeting has been cancelled.

Next Meeting: April 12, 2001
 
The meeting adjourned at 3pm.

Minutes prepared by Maxine Brown