SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
August 9, 2000
9-10 a.m.
S&E Conference Room

Present: L. Abrams, J. Church, R. Coates, H. Colson, E. Cowell (co-recorder), K. Creely, L. Cruse, S. Dunlap (convenor/recorder), S. Isozumi, E. Kanter, V. Williamson

1. Announcements:

See the July 24, 2000 issue of "The New Yorker" for an article by Nicholson Baker on his foray into the world of historic American newspapers.

Sam reported that the first batch of "blue slips" have arrived from Lindsay & Howes http://www.ybp.com/lindsayhowes.htm, the British vendor acquired by YBP in 1998. Slips will be distributed by call number area. L&H and YBP share the same database, but we should nonetheless report any "glitches" so they can be fixed. Please discuss any concerns you have with me so we can work with Jessica Miramontes and keep problems at a minimum.

After the meeting Jessica announced that the first shipment of L&H approval books have arrived and are staged in the Approval Room to the left of the Harrassowitz shelves. They will remain staged together for a few weeks so we can all get a sense of the types of titles that are coming in.

2. Reminder on how to reject books in the Approval Room:

Please be sure to fill out the reverse of the approval slip if you do not want to purchase the book. You may add comments, if you like, that will be passed on to YBP so they can adjust the approval plan.

3. Sam distributed a copy of an ad for new UC Press titles in cultural studies from the November 1999

book review issue of "Lingua franca." UCSD did not own three of the six titles:

Mediterranean: a cultural landscape (D 973)

On holiday: a history of vacationing (G 156)

At home on the Earth: becoming native to our place; a multicultural anthology (PS 509)

Bibliographers were asked to remain vigilant when looking at approval slips and try to identify titles in areas that tend to "fall through the cracks." We will check the UC Press catalog of publications over the last several years to identify problematic areas and strategize at an upcoming meeting.

4. Request for feedback on ROGER "Featured Lists"

There was overall agreement that we would be very interested in using this feature, provided we have a liaison to assist with the logistics of establishing our particular boolean perimeters, running the boolean searches, and uploading the results to Roger.

5. Harold described a UCSD pilot project, sponsored under the aegis of CDL, whereby 500 e-books in the areas of business, economics, and computer science, were purchased from netLibrary.com. Titles may be viewed in Roger by doing a "netlibrary" title search in Roger. In some cases we own the paper in addition to the electronic version; in other cases we have access only the electronic version. Titles may be viewed (and printed) page by page; they include images and other visual material, are full-text searchable. Patrons may also "check out" the volume to their personal account for the designated loan period, up to 24 hours. UCSD Fall course reserves seeks to find instructor-assigned matches from among the 18,000 titles on the netLibrary system and monitor their performance here as electronic reserves e-books.

6. Harold reported that the UC System has reached an agreement with the Economist Intelligence Unit to access 126 Country Reports back to 1996, and including monthly content updates not available in paper. Access should become live on September 1. We plan to maintain print subscriptions through 2001. Harold will monitor other EIU publications to which IR/PS subscribes (Forecasts, etc), which may become available electronically in the future.

7. Ronnie reported that she was recently informed of the Human Development Program http://www-psy.ucsd.edu/~hdp/introduction.html which is administered by the Psychology Department, and thus falls under her purview. There are currently 559 undergraduate majors. Coursework is general in nature, but extends across the disciplines and includes a substantial social sciences component. She urged us to keep this program in mind while selecting in our particular associated subject areas.

8. UGL weeding is moving ahead. The largest remaining call number areas for SSH to review are E, G, H, J, K. The science librarians are working on the Qs. Responsibility for collecting "careers type" materials formerly located in a separate UGL Careers section, will be distributed throughout the libraries. S&E, for example, will house "Careers in high tech." CLICS will house a small reference collection. SSH bibliographers may look at the four trucks of volumes that are staged in Tech Processing, close to Caroline Kidman's area, to get an idea of what will be transferred back.

Next meeting:

September 13
Price Center
San Francisco/Santa Cruz Room