Chair Steve Batt opened the meeting by thanking Julie Linden for
suggesting the speakers for the program.  He also announced that one of
the speakers, Ana-Maria Campos, who was to speak on "Conveying
Information Visually", was ill and was not be able to come to the
meeting.

Meredith Ricker, Government Documents Data Center Coordinator at
University of New Hampshire, gave a presentation on "Data Orienteering:
Locating the Path of Least Resistance".   She presented the problem of
increasing amounts of electronic data being available with more people
wanting the data and discussed potential levels of service which
libraries may want to consider to meet patron needs.  Meredith provided
handouts including a bibliography on Data Services Resources.   She
mentioned one article in particular by Jim Jacobs, "Providing Data
Services for Machine-Readable Information in an Academic Library: Some
Levels of Service". http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/jj/jj.pacs.html  Meredith also
gave a demonstration of searching an ICPSR database.   ICPSR is the
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(http://www.icpsr.umich.edu) and is the largest social sciences archive in
the world.  Membership is required to access the data, but code books
can be searched without a password.

After a brief break the business meeting was held.  The May minutes
were approved.

Pam Hays gave the treasurer's report:
        Checking   $1378.57
        Savings      $ 996.74

GPLNE will be cohosting the reception at the Spring Depository Library
Council meeting in Newport, Rhode Island.  It was agreed that a maximum
amount of  $500 of GPLNE funds would be used for the reception, the
exact amount would be dependent on other contributions.

The next GPLNE Meeting announcements will be sent via the U.S. Postal
Service.  After that all announcements will be sent via email.
The next meeting is tentatively planned for December 3.

The business meeting was adjourned.

A tour of the Dodd Research Center was given at 1PM.

Attendance

Sonia Ensins,  Boston College
Erhard Konerding, Wesleyan University
Linda Johnson, University of New Hampshire
Leonard Adams, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bill Thompson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bette L. Siegel, State Library of Massachusetts
Pam Hays, Harvard University
Tim Hays, U.S. Army Corps. Of Engineers-New England
Nancy Peluso, Connecticut State Library
Ralph Szymczak, Brandeis University
Debbie Angelo, Providence College
Maria Olson, Providence College
Julia R. Tryon, Providence College
Frank Notarianni, Rhode Island College
Susan Wartham, Rhode Island State Library
Dave McChesney, University of Connecticut
Heidi N. Abbey, University of Connecticut
Deborah Mongeau, University of Rhode Island
Vida Margaitis, Harvard University
Meredith Ricker, University of New Hampshire
Julie Linden, Unversity of Massachusetts, Amherst