SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
April 11, 2001
9-10 a.m.
Price Center Berkeley Room

Present: S. Dunlap (convenor), H. Colson, E. Kanter, L. Abrams, S. Isozumi, R. Koga (guest), L. Galvan-Estrada, A. Perez, J. Page, L. Cruse, J. Hanson, J. Church, G. Hughes (recorder), E. Cowell, K. Peterson, L. Claassen

Announcements

Undergraduate Collections Team

Sam announced that Phyllis has asked him to convene the Undergraduate Collections Team which includes S. Jurist, D. Kegel, J. Williams, and E. Valdez. The group will discuss issues related to undergraduate collections needs and interdisciplinary issues. The group will discuss who should be buying materials in biology and natural history and where will they should be housed. The group will discuss the needs of Sixth College, which focuses on the nexus of culture, arts, and technology. The group also will look at collections needs in the visual arts and liaison activity with CLICS.

Melanesian Collection

K. Creely and S. Dunlap will meet with the Catalog Department in May to discuss the Melanesian Collection materials in SSH and Special Collections. A collections note may be added to the records in order to create a sort of "virtual collection" which could then be further limited by LC class.

Other

S. Dunlap thanked G. Hughes for filling in as acting Psychology/Cognitive Sciences Bibliographer.

S. Dunlap will be gone from April 19 to May 7.

The new Literature/Humanities Librarian, Rob Melton, and the new Music Librarian, Ken Calkins, will both begin on May 7.

Agenda

Annex Weeding Project, next steps

SRLF has agreed to accept 20,000 volumes over the summer; this is in addition to our designated quota of 6000 volumes this Spring. Bibliographers may forward their annotated boolean lists to Kate Garvey-Clasby in the Database Management Section of the Catalog Department. If bibliographers need boolean lists in other call number areas, see Kate or Ryan Finnerty.

Collections Management Initiative, next steps (J. Hanson)

The logistics are still being worked out before the Collection Management Initiative project can proceed.

E. Kanter and H. Colson have both identified subject areas that can be included in the project. These include economic, finance, and American history titles which are in JSTOR. Subject areas found in other retrospective databases such as Project Muse, Science Direct, Wiley, and Academic Universe could also be considered. S. Dunlap suggested a possible scenario whereby Roger would link to JSTOR for retrospective holdings, up to the firewall, and also link to Project Muse for current issues, if available.

There was consensus that most disciplines will need user education before implementation, e.g. demonstration of JSTOR at faculty meetings.

Campus Population, Fall Quarter

J. Hanson distributed tables produced by the Office of Analytical Studies and Space Planning. The figures show the population of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty associated with each academic discipline at UCSD (except medicine) as of Fall Quarter 2000.