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The Council of Fisheries and Oceans Librarians / Conseil des bibliothèques
de Pêches et Oceans :Twenty five years and still going strong
Gordon Miller – Head, Library Services & Scientific Archives, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, BCPamela L. Olson – Librarian, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BCAnna Fiander – Chief, Library Services – Maritimes Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS
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COFOL – what is it?
• committee of Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) librarians
• manages the DFO national library network
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DFO regions: Newfoundland and
Labrador, Maritimes, Gulf, Québec, National Capital, Central and Arctic, Pacific
National Capital
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• 1979/80 Department of Fisheries and Oceans established
• no national support for coordinated library service
• DFO librarians wanted to establish computer based systems
COFOL - why was it established?
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Library world – 1980• main frames • off-the-shelf integrated library
systems were rare• online access to bibliographic
databases available • dialup • library mediated
• hints of the future • Apple computer • OCLC expanding• MELVYL testing online access
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COFOL – characteristics• promote discussion of matters of mutual concern• promote collective action• investigate and discuss new technologies• make recommendations about library service within
DFO• meet as least once a year• Chair is elected annually• decisions are made by consensus• cooperative activity – each library, each COFOL member
contributes as time and resources permit
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WAVES – model of COFOL activities• financial resources for software and database
maintenance – provided by Ottawa library• WAVES database manager – provided by Ottawa
library• cataloguing standards, policies and procedures –
WAVES committee (librarians from 5 libraries)• cataloguing of core bibliographic record – first library
to acquire item• cooperative cataloguing agreements• copy records – all libraries• authority control – all libraries • thesaurus – 2 libraries
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Other COFOL accomplishments
•digital archive•virtual library (ejournals)•collections•primary resource centre
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COFOL challenges
• financial resources
• WAVES
• other information management activities
• organizational change
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COFOL as model
• cooperation
• sharing
• consensus
• distributed participation
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