SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
June 10, 2009
1:00-2:30 p.m. Room 276

Meeting Summary

Present: Leslie Abrams, Ken Calkins, Jim Cheng,Victoria Chu, Kathy Creely, Sam Dunlap (convener), Ryan Finnerty, Tony Harvell, Martha Hruska, Rebecca Hyde, Sanae Isozumi, Elliot Kanter, Karen Lindvall-Larson, Rob Melton, Annelise Sklar, Kelly Smith, Roger Smith.

End-of-year funds were used to fund the purchase of a number of databases:

Ken Calkins: African American Music Reference, Opera in Video;
Victoria Chu: Century Journal Project, Phase 2;
Harold Colson: Foreign Broadcast Information Service transcripts: China, Asia & the Pacific, and Latin America;
Rebecca Hyde: LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection Retrospective;
Sanae Isozumi: Taiyo, 1895-1928, one of Japan’s first general-interest magazines;
Elliot Kanter: California Historical Newspapers, U.S. History in Video;
Rob Melton; Dance in Video, Theater in Video with BBC Shakespeare Series add-on;
Annelise Sklar: Making of Modern Law, CQ Press Political Science Reference Suite, and a subscription to Europa World Plus;
Other: Springer Archive Update, JAMA Archive Backfiles, and an additional JSTOR segment.

Rob announced a trial for ECCO, module 2, which should complete Gale’s digitization of the English Short Title Catalog.

Leslie announced that the major art index, the Bibliography of the History of Art, is at risk.  The Getty has withdrawn their support of the project and the future of both the database backfile and the continued ongoing creation component is unknown.

CCG Updates:

Suggestions for featured collections on the Collections page include California Historical Newspapers, Alexander Street Video databases, Springer ebooks, and Ebrary.

Each library is working on their 5% and 10% budget cut exercise.  In addition, we are assigning some subject acquisitions to endowment funds which will result in less money available for special purchase requests. Next year it is likely that what special purchases we make will be limited to what can be supported from the Friends acquisitions fund, approximately $30K.

CDL is no longer managing 10 resources.  Campuses may choose to initiate local subscriptions and adapt the existing license, or a campus could identify a Tier 2 Champion volunteer to work with the vendor to retain current payment terms.  UCSD is maintaining local access to the Latin American Database, Applied Science & Technology, Book Review Digest, and the Essay & General Literature Index.  Other UC libraries are in much worse financial shape and at least one is considering pulling out of other Tier 1 resources which will result in workload increases for CDL Acquisitions staff.

Discussion:

Sam clarified the OCLC survey that was distributed on Tuesday with a request for feedback.  We are interested in sets of records that currently display in Roger, but are not available in NGM/WorldCat Local.  The two sets we will recommend for UCSD are for EEBO and CRC (an STM database).  In addition, OCLC wants to know about our record enhancement services.  We subscribe to the Blackwell Table of Content (TOC) service and our local records are not allowed to appear in Melvyl, much less WorldCat.

Rob asked about alternatives to Global Books in Print, which CDL has also cancelled. Tony indicated that the Acquisitions Department has not used it in many years.  WorldCat and YBP/Gobi3 were mentioned as possible substitutes and we will discuss this further at a future meeting.

Roger asked us to send revisions to the Collection Salvage Priorities document and to talk with him if we have any questions.