Attended by: Elizabeth Byrne, Chuck Eckman (Chair), Gail Ford (recorder), Jim Gordon, Mary Ann Mahoney, Gary Peete, Theresa Salazar, Beth Weil, Jill Woolums, Kathryn Wayne. Absent: Scott Miller, Barclay Ogden, Margaret Phillips, Linda Vida, Susan Xue.
1. Budget Requests.
-Sciences, Engineering, Reference, Undergraduate
-Social Sciences, Business, Selected Area Studies
-Next Steps
2. Announcements.
1. Budget requests
Beth Weil and Mary Ann Mahoney discussed the Science, Reference and Undergraduate requests. Gary Peete and Jill Woolums discussed the Social Sciences and selected Area Studies requests.
A few issues came up when looking at these requests (more as questions, in the abstract) which Chuck expects will be topics of future CDC and CC discussions:
• will we need to invest less in backfiles as Google and other mass digitization projects begin to cover older materials?
• are A&I indexes without full text access less used and consequently not as high a priority as they used to be for acquisition?
• to what extent should we acquire fee-based tangible and online versions of government information when it is available freely over the internet?
Chuck will review each request again in light of CC’s comments, and begin to make decisions about allocations. More at the November 20 meeting on this.
2. Announcements
• Selectors have submitted their requests for one-time money to purchase collections (deadline was November 5.) These will be presented at the November 20 meeting of CC.
• Chuck is scheduled to visit all three subject councils in November to talk about the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) that will go into effect January 1, 2007. This initiative is co-sponsored by The Academic Senate Committee on Libraries, VC Beth Burnside and The Library) and offers some financial relief to authors willing to secure instant open access to upcoming articles by paying a publication fee.
• A member of the Arts & Humanities council suggested that the annual report and budget request serve as the basis for a one-on-one meeting between the selector and AUL to discuss issues raised in the report. Chuck is very interested in this idea, and will make himself available to anyone who wants a one-on-one meeting of this kind. Such meetings would not be mandatory. They are likely to happen spread throughout the year.
• The Working Group on Persistence meets for the first time today (November 6). They’ve been asked to prepare a report by January 30, that will come to CC for discussion and action.
• Staff may have seen some very broad announcements in IS&T communication channels regarding a Library-LBNL project. To make clear what is actually happening, Chuck reported that LBNL has contracted with the California Digital Library and UC Berkeley Library to explore the costs (staffing and acquisition), logical processes, and potential risks of providing enhanced licensing support to LBNL scientists by the UC Berkeley Library. The stated goal of the Licensing Support Assessment is to provide LBNL scientists with access to resources similar to those provided by The Library to UC Berkeley affiliated scholars, students and staff. The Assessment’s statement of work provides for a vendor negotiation strategic plan, vendor acceptance test, implementation scenarios, and a risk assessment. CDL staff involved include Cate Hutton, Ivy Anderson, Curtis Lavery as well as Mary McDonald in the UC Office of General Counsel. UC Berkeley Library staff involved include Mary Ann Mahoney, Margaret Phillips, Rebecca Green and Chuck.
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