SSH Cluster Bibliographers Group
Meeting Minutes
February 14, 2001
Berkeley Room

Present: Larry Cruse, Jackie Hanson, Richard Wang, Sanae Isozumi, Laura Galvan-Estrada, Alice Perez, Kathy Creeley, Gayle Hughes (recorder), Jim Church, Karen Lindvall-Larson, Rieko Koga (guest), Sam Dunlap (convenor), Leslie Abrams, Harold Colson

1. Sam welcomed visiting librarian, Rieko Koga

2. Gayle volunteered to write Bib Council meeting summaries and will post them to the SSHL website.

3. Update on the proposal to create a Graduate School of Management at UCSD (Jackie)

The school is being designed with the idea of having an above average percentage of admits with science and engineering backgrounds. There have been five meetings with business leaders at the senior management level in the San Diego region. They unanimously endorse the creation of the School and predict a vigorous local market for its graduates.

The estimated $45,000,000 building cost will come primarily from gift funds that will be raised in a fund-raising campaign. The new building is slated to become available in 2004. The School will require a facility of approximately 80,000 sq. feet. to accommodate an estimated 1,000 degree students, 100 faculty, and 100 staff.

An information services center will fulfill the library function and will be staffed by 2 librarians. In addition there will be two support staff in the Geisel Library. There will be some retrospective buying of print materials for the Geisel Library.

The plan optimizes the 'anytime, anywhere' concept of access to digital resources while maintaining access to print materials which will be housed in the SSHL.

The proposed timeline includes having the first full-time MBA students registered in Fall 2003, opening of the GSM building in Fall 2004, with the first MBA graduating class in Spring 2005.

San Diego is the only major metropolitan center in the United States that is not served by a management school in the Business Week "top 50". This in turn affects the caliber of recruitment candidates for attracting top quality talent. If UCSD does not fill the gap in the region's educational infrastructure, someone else will, e.g. Harvard is opening a branch in Silicon Valley.

There will not be an undergraduate major in business. There will eventually be approximately 65 full-time faculty, The facility is to be built near IR/PS, and the Institute of the Americas.

4. Update on a proposal for an International Studies Center (Jackie)

An International Studies Center is being proposed as a facility for faculty and researchers in international studies. The Center will provide a forum for collaboration on issues related to international studies regardless of the topic. Jackie attended an all day event whereby 20 faculty members gave 10 minute overviews on their field of study in the social sciences, e.g. what are the predictable patterns of population migration.

The 2,000+ sq. ft. facility will not be affiliated with any school or discipline and will provide offices for a director, faculty, and staff.

5. Report on Yankee Book Peddlar representative Jannette Schuele's visit (Sam)

We have been getting duplicate slips from Lindsay and Howes and YBP. YBP will implement the "one slip only" feature to eliminate this problem.

We will now get books with accompanying materials such as CD-ROM's on approval as opposed to slips.

The ceiling cost for books that will be sent on approval vs. slips will been raised from $75 to $100. Anything over $100 will come as a slip.

Imprints for Palgrave International is the former St. Martin's Press.

Yankee is adding interdisciplinary aspects to their book descriptions, they will be providing more content analysis.