Attended by: Phyllis Bischof, Gail Ford (recorder), Jim Gordon, Shayee
Khanaka, Norma Kobzina, Rebecca Green, Patty Iannuzzi (Chair), Phoebe
Janes, Jim Boydston for Barclay Ogden, Margaret Phillips, Jean McKenzie,
John Roberts, Camille Wanat
Absent: Linda McLane, Mike Rancer
Action Items:
* Gail will load the Collections Themes, finalized today, to the web.
Agenda:
I. Announcements
II. DiLib Business
III. Collections Themes
IV. Scholarly Publishing
V. Elsevier Planning
VI. 2004/2005 budget target and monograph inflation
Meeting Content
I. Announcements
Workshop for liaisons (and their supervisors) will occur on Scholarly
Publishing, September 30, 9:30am noon, Toll Room, Alumni House. This will
be a beginning look at how to discuss with faculty the crisis in Scholarly
Publishing.
Rebecca Green announced that the Berkeley instance of U.C. e-Links went
into live production on 9/15. So far, a small group of targets has been
activated for Berkeley-only resources including Ingenta Select, Highwire,
and MetaPress but we will continue to add more.
John Roberts reported that the Exchange Rate working group (Harrison
Dekker, Jim Spohrer, John Roberts) meets for the first time on Sept 16.
Patty reminded people that this group's work will feed into the call
for one-time funding.
AHSS Speaker Series and Colloquium. Four speaker panels focusing on
collections in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, will culminate in
the Colloquium on December 10, 2003, from 9-3 at the Clark Kerr campus. A
working group of Gail Ford, Michaelyn Burnette, Jim Spohrer, and Susana
Hinojosa are working to develop and produce these events.
Patty will participate today in the first conference call of the UC
group to assess UC's shared print archive. Patty noted that important
questions are being raised, including what materials are officially part of the
shared print archive; and whether or not this material should be available
for use at campuses on a Library Use Only basis. This discussion is often
phrased in terms of whether the shared print archive should be
reinterpreted to be a dark archive or a dim archive or a
cohesive shared print collection. There is also some thought that decisions made
now, when the shared print archive is mirrored by electronic online access,
might later be applied to a shared print archive of monographs having no
similar, ubiquitous, form of access. UC Berkeley is drafting a position
paper on this for submission to various involved UC-wide groups.
II. DiLib Business
no new business
III. Collections Themes (reproduced at end of minutes)
The group discussed final wording, then developed ideas on how this
document has been and can be used:
*should go up on the web page
*can be used as a tool to evaluate decisions made and projects undertaken
during the year at UC Berkeley
*can be used as a tool to evaluate the impact of CDL proposals on UC
Berkeley's goals/intentions
*should correlate to planning documents like the bubble diagram
that Patty presented at the last Early Bird on collections projects in the works.
*can be used as an orientation tool for new staff
*gives everyone a common understanding within the Library, that can then
be used in conversations outside the Library (e.g., with faculty)
*has already and will continue to inform how staff reassignments are
negotiated by Library administration.
IV. Scholarly Publishing
A memo went from Chancellor Berdahl, U.L .Tom Leonard and LIBR co-chairs
Elaine Tennant and Tony Newcomb. The letter has generated lots of campus
interest: one Daily Cal article already published and one or two are in the
works. The Library has received about 20 responses. Jean McKenzie reported
getting one inquiry, as did Phoebe Janes.
Patty wanted to iterate that the message we would like to consistently give
is as follows: the model of for-profit publishing, where annual increases
in prices outrun Library's increases in budgets is NOT sustainable.
Inflation cannot continue to outpace available funds.
The UC Academic Council intends to send a letter to all UC faculty fairly
soon. CDL is also hosting two fall meetings (one in the north, and one in
the south) with a few faculty from every campus. Both of these events are
likely to keep alive the issues of scholarly publishing. It is hoped that
they may also begin us on the road towards reasoned discussions with
workable solutions.
CDL has just issued a new website on the topic:
http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu:8081/scholarly/
V. Elsevier Planning
Patty has named a working group (Milt Ternberg, Camille Wanat, Beth Weil,
Margaret Phillips, and MaryAnn Mahoney) to give some thought to how much
Berkeley can afford to pay Elsevier as one of our many journal providers.
VI. 2004/2005 budget target and monograph inflation
Patty reminded everyone that the cut last year was assigned first to the
Sciences via cancelling Elsevier print. The remaining was divvied up among
selector funds using the same hybrid model as has been used in the last
several years. The difference in the last calculation was that no inflation
was given for m-funds before the cut target was calculated. The hybrid
included what would have been the monograph base with inflation.
When asked why we did not factor in the variable nature of inflation on
serials by discipline, Patty reported that she had investigated this quite
a bit for the first allocation made after she became acting AUL for
Collections, and that our reporting structures do not provide a good,
reliable way to determine variable rates of inflation by fund codes. John
Roberts suggested that perhaps this should be possible, and he was invited
to submit a proposal to Patty before the next CC meeting if he wishes.
VII. Next Meeting: October 7, 2003