SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
October 10, 2007
1-2:30
Room 276
Meeting Summary
Present: Leslie Abrams, Adele Barsh, Ken Calkins, Lynda Claassen, Harold Colson, Kathy Creely, Sam Dunlap (convenor), Ryan Finnerty, Lia Friedman, Tony Harvell, Martha Hruska, Rebecca Hyde, Sanae Isozumi, David Jahn, Elliot Kanter, Karen Lindvall-Larson, Patrick McCarthy, Rob Melton, Alanna Moore, Stacy Nelson, Alice Perez, Annelise Sklar, Dan Suchy,
Announcements:
Martha announced that although the Bibliographers’ Council will not meet, the e-mail list will remain. She will meet with our Group and the Science Librarians regularly. The Collection Coordinators Group will soon have a Libnet presence and link to meeting summaries and other documentation.
New electronic resources, trials, upgrades, backfile purchases, etc.
Elliot announced a trial to Archive Grid (through October, or longer if desired), which moved from RLG to OCLC. It won’t be listed on Sage, so ask Elliot for logon information
Adele announced that we cancelled some print resources to allow us to subscribe to Mergent Online, which is a good first stop for US and international business and company resources.
Sanae announced the new Japanese-language dictionary database.
Rebecca announced that Sage Urban Studies Abstracts is available via EBSCO, from 1992-present, with UC e-Links.
Ken announced the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, an Alexander Street Press product, that will soon contain audio samples.
Rob announced a UC-wide trial of Oxford Online Dictionaries and a new Alexander Street product, Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
Harold announced (on behalf of Jim Cheng) a new collection of full-text Korean-language journals.
Martha announced that JSTOR is promoting ALUKA, a thematic area studies collection focusing on Africa. Information is available at www.aluka.org/
Other announcements:
Leslie announced a 1 ½ hour demonstration of ARTStor by ARTStor and CDL staff on Monday, October 15.
Rob announced a 1 ½ hour Academic Impressions web conference on Fair Use that, pending interest, will be webcast in the Seuss Room on Dec.11.
Harold announced a meeting with UCSD and Google representatives. They are interested in scanning East Asian CJK and IR/PS collections in the Libraries, including SSHL. The process needs further discussion.
David distributed a handout showing a 300% increase in YBP pre-bound shelf-ready titles. Essentially everything coming from YBP is pre-bound. We could consider and comment on the proposal that we cease having paperbacks pre-bound by YBP. Instead, during the review period, either Preservation staff or the selector could identify those titles that needed to be bound. Others would be bound as needed when identified by Circ staff.
Between now and the end of November, we should monitor pre-bound titles in the Review Room to see if we should change our YBP treatment options. Pre-bound titles have a stamped identification number on the back page of each volume. Please send your comments to David by the end of the November. He will collect the responses and report back. We need to make a decision soon so YBP can make the changes by January 2008.
Updates:
Sam and Becky Culbertson (CDL SCP) attended the first meeting of the newly-created UC News Resources Group that resulted in a number of action items: 1) We recommended the following news resources to the JSC to include on the 2008 licensing work plan: Newsbank Image e-Edition; America’s Historical Newspapers, series II-V (Readex); Historical Chicago Tribune ProQuest); 2) We reviewed news resources submitted by other Groups and endorsed the following: MSI Multidata Online (Middle East, in vernacular languages), Historical Black Newspapers, National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals; 3) We discussed the dramatic decline in UC usage of ProQuest current newspapers: LAT -18% compared to 2006, NYT -19%, WSJ -20%; 4) We crafted a proposal recommending that CDL license Factiva (also a ProQuest product) as a Tier 1 resource by adding UCSB and UCSC. Factiva also contains LAT, NYT, and WSJ.
Ken updated the Group on the newly-formed Collection Management Working Group. There is a Wiki that contains information on current and upcoming weeding projects, meeting summaries of past meetings, the Group’s charge and policy documents. Martha distributed copies of the Charge and Collection Retention Policy and asked the SSH Cluster Bibs to review these, as well as other documentation on the Wiki and send comments to her.
Sam quickly gave some highlights of recent Collection Coordinators Group meetings:
August 1: Creation of a new Linguistics bibs group, with Rob Melton as Chair.
August 15: The WorldCat Collection Analysis Tool was renewed for one more year. The E-Book Task Force released their Report and recommendations to proceed. Tony and Michele presented an overview of the UCSD libraries collections budget that is available from the Acquisitions Department.
September 19: The North America Storage Trust (NAST) is being coordinated by OCLC, and UCSD, UCLA, and SRLF are participating in the pilot. We are developing the process for submission of special purchase proposals.
Harold gave some highlights of the October 3 meeting:
We are looking at how to order titles outside the CDL-licensed packages. New Taylor & Francis titles of interest should be sent to Martha, via the library’s appropriate Collection Coordinator. We began looking at the role and responsibilities of the CCG.
Discussion:
Martha distributed a copy of the Collection Coordinators Group charge and goals for the year
Martha announced that we are working out details of the Special Purchase Proposal request process and may develop a template. Tony announced that foundation funds were transferred to the library last Friday and that the Acquisitions Department is following up on the last cycle’s requests. He noted several guidelines that we should follow:
Tony described a new form, Request for New Resource (Print and/or Digital).
This form combines two older forms and essentially asks for the following information: