Collections Council Minutes
December 7, 2004
Attended by: Phyllis Bischof, Jim Boydstun (for Barclay Ogden), Gail Ford
(recorder), Rebecca Green, Jim Gordon, Marlene Harmon, Patty Iannuzzi, Ann
Jensen, Norma Kobzina, Gary Peete, Margaret Phillips, John Roberts, David
Sullivan
Guests: Armanda Barone, Lee Leighton, Sheila Wekselbaum
Agenda
I. Announcements
II. DiLib
III. Springer / Blackwell
IV. One-time call for projects
V. One-time call for collections
Action Items
* Sciences and Social Science Councils each discussed criteria that CDC
might use when selecting the next serial packages to become part of the
shared print archive. They will send their written suggestions to Patty
before Friday (when she has a CDC Conference call.)
* Norma and Ann will look for answers to questions raised about a) where
materials from state Science Academies should be housed, and b) where
publications in one of the East Asia languages should be housed. [note:
Norma and Ann report the following information found in the Collection
Development Policy Statement done in 1980, prepared by Dorothy Koenig and
Sheila Dowd. a) Main has the primary responsibility for AZ, which is where
the majority of State Science academies are located. AZ refers to
Scholarship and Learning.b) "Materials entirely published in East Asian
languages... are, with certain exceptions, collected by and housed in the
East Asiatic Library regardless of their subject. Exceptions include
science materials falling within the subject scope of a biological or
physical sciences branch library."]
* Patty will clarify with the Journal Package Group their preferences for
how to proceed on the discretionary reinstatement of select Springer /
Blackwell print subscriptions.
* Patty will draft an email to go to
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/ about CDL's decision to cancel all
print for Springer and Blackwells, with selective reinstatement.
* Patty will raise with Admin, CC's very serious concern about the need to
redress problems in serials cataloging - both retrospective fix on existing
records and a plan to ensure that current workloads can be handled
satisfactorily.
Meeting Content
I. Announcements
* Please send comments directly to Tom about the draft job description for
the AUL-Collections.
* CC will meet on January 4 (regularly scheduled meeting) and January 25
(newly scheduled meeting.) The regularly scheduled meeting of January 18 is
cancelled.
* Margaret announced that invitations to the Faculty Symposium on Scholarly
Publishing [by faculty, for faculty] will go out today.
II. DiLib
Conversation of one request was deferred until our next meeting.
III. Springer / Blackwell
CC members asked that the process for reinstating select print
subscriptions to Springer and Blackwell be clarified. They also asked that
some notice be made available on the web to which they could refer if
faculty ask about the decision to cancel print across-the-board.
IV. One-time call for projects
* CC spent most of the meeting discussing the one-time call for projects.
They confirmed the proposals that they definitely recommend be funded, and
articulated questions and concerns they had about others.
* CC agrees that serials catalog records are a major concern and stressed
how crucial it is for Admin to address this.
* CC will discuss at its next meeting the logistics of undertaking these
projects: where will the funds reside; who will be operational leader for
each project; who will constitute the team for each project; how/who will
track the overall progress of all projects and be able to report back to CC
on the whole?
V. One-time call for collections
CC confirmed the proposals for collections that they recommend be funded.
The group also agreed that Patty would follow up with other selectors on
outstanding questions, and then she will decide on funding based on answers
received.
Future agenda item:
* CC is interested in hearing from Area Studies Librarians on their LC
(previously PL480) profiles.