SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
April 12, 2000
9-10 a.m.
Davis/Riverside Room,
Price Center
Present: Lynda Claassen, Ronnie Coates, Harold Colson, Kathy Creely, Larry Cruse, Sam Dunlap (convener), Elliot Kanter, Karen Lindvall-Larson (recorder)
Annex update
The Annex Task Force was convened in May 1998. The original goal was to remove 50,000 volumes from the Annex each year, with 30,000 volumes coming from SSHL holdings. We have not met this goal as we have not been able to ship materials to SRLF for over two years. The A and Z project has withdrawn 2494 volumes from the Annex and the documents collection transfers to SSHL have removed another 5447 volumes. Part of the Task Force's budget for 1999-2000 is being transferred to continue with the transfer of UGL monographs into the SSHL stacks.
SRLF update
SRLF has accepted no deposits since 1998. The ORION 2 cataloging client is running and SRLF is processing a huge backlog. Several technical issues have to be resolved before deposits will be accepted again.
UGL collections update
Bibliographers have selected 14,000 volumes for transfer and discarded an equal amount. We are encouraged to continue our review for transfer or discard. The UGL serials fiche is being integrated into the SSHL collections and the UGL bound serials are being used to fill in gaps in other campus collections. The careers collection will be re-located to the SSHL reference section.
SSHL research services remodel
The remodel will result in new space for staff and a new reference collection configuration. The reference collection will be weeded before the move, with NUCs, national bibliographies, and selected G.K. Hall catalogs possibly being shifted to the first floor.
Special purchase proposals
CMG's decisions will be announced by the end of April.
New funds allocations
The group recommended allocating any new funds to the monographs funds rather than putting them in the serials fund in anticipation of serials cost increases.
Journal routing
Journal routing of Geisel Library serials will be discontinued soon. Harold will put together a list of heavily routed journals for subscription consideration by the LAUC Research & Professional Development Committee. One bibliographer asked whether acquisition's staff could notify bibliographers when issues of journals of interest are received in lieu of routing them (this has since been determined to be unfeasible). It was also suggested that bibliographers use the update function on electronic journal indexes or consult Current Contents to keep current with journal publications.