SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group

December 13, 2000
9-10 a.m.
Berkeley Room, Price Center

Present: L. Abrams, J. Church, E. Cowell, K. Creely, L. Cruse, S. Dunlap (convener), L. Galvan-Estrada, G. Hughes, S. Isozumi, E. Kanter, K. Lindvall-Larson (recorder), A. Perez, K. Peterson, D. Tweedy, V. Williamson

Announcements

1. Emily Horning (Yale University) presentation: "Discuss your philosophy of the challenge in balancing traditional print resources with the increase in emerging digital and electronic tools." Wednesday, December 20, 2000, 11a.m.-noon, Room 276

2. Rob Melton (University of Kansas) presentation on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 2-3 p.m., Room 276

3. Look for our web presence, coming soon

4. Three music librarian candidates will be interviewing in January and will have presentations-Leslie will advise us of dates.

5. Larry announced the UC-wide collaborative purchase of scanned detailed maps of Great Britain from the last 100 years. They will be housed at UCSB but will be available by FTP.

Research Services Activity Report-- proposal to track outreach efforts in a separate column (Duffy Tweedy)

Bibliographers are encouraged to use the new column to record outreach activities that don't fall into the existing categories for bibliographic instruction. There was a general discussion of the form, with Alice encouraging bibliographers to use it because PSAC reviews the forms to track instructional activities and Vicki mentioning its importance for documenting what we do.

Discussion of the Roger "featured" new items list (Elliot)

Elliot distributed copies of a list of identified categories and samples of titles that appear on the "New items in United States History" list. See Elliot's email to Bibliographers Council of 12/13/2000 titled "New Items List" for details of the discussion and resolution of the questions raised.

New electronic resource, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. $2850 for a 3-year subscription. Request for endorsement (Sam)

The group agreed to endorse purchase of the electronic version.

Annex Weeding Project update and general comments and suggestions (Sam) More will become clear later in the day after meeting with Phyllis, Anne Prussing, and Mike Mogelinski.

Next meeting January 10, 2001, PC Berkeley Room. Please be prepared to present a short update on Annex weeding in your subject areas.

Sam asked that when we review the Annex lists in our areas we give on the top sheet of each a rough estimate of the number of volumes to be sent to SRLF.