Collections Council Meeting of December 18, 2007

Attended by: Elizabeth Byrne, Chuck Eckman (Chair), Gail Ford (recorder), Jim Gordon, Mary Ann Mahoney, Barclay Ogden, Gary Peete, Margaret Phillips, Theresa Salazar, Linda Vida, Beth Weil, Jill Woolums, Kathryn Wayne, Susan Xue. Absent: Scott Miller, Jill Woolums

Guests: Suzanne Calpestri, Jesse Silva

Agenda

1. Announcements

2. One-Time Purchase Proposals

3. DILIB Fund Review (Margaret facilitates)

4. New Directions (members of CC, EBAG, SCAG and DAG)

Action Items

M-fund temporary-permanent changes will be posted to Innopac in early January and reviewed at the Early Bird on January 25th.

Chuck will begin sending out emails to individual selectors letting them know the status of their one-time major purchase requests. Chuck will be making contact with some other selectors to get more information, and/or to strategize on how the requested title might be parlayed into a CRL purchase proposal, or a Stanford-Berkeley cooperative collecting proposal.

Chuck and Margaret will draft a charge to a small group who will be asked to look at titles now paid by DiLib (with no copays from selectors) and suggest titles that we might cancel.

Chuck will blog on the new directions portion of today’s agenda. He encouraged other participants to do so as well.

Meeting Content

1. Announcements

2. One-Time Purchase Proposals

Chuck has reviewed selector requests, considering CC comments, selector priorities, and selector co-pays. He has made decisions on some of the requests, and needs more information on others. In some cases he will be contacting selectors to strategize on how the title might be secured as a CRL purchase, or through a Stanford-Berkeley cooperative arrangement. He will begin sending out emails to individual selectors letting them know the status of their one-time major purchase requests.

3. DILIB Fund Review (Margaret facilitates)

Margaret will be leading a group to review titles now paid from Dilib, to see if they are still good values for the dollar. Resources paid for by multiple selector co-pays will not be part of the initial review. The goal is to consider what titles we might cut to save money. A second goal is to consider what process might be put in place so that a special annual review would not be needed. The review process will include analysis of usage statistics and a public comment period. CC agreed that Margaret should work with a group of selectors, and that volunteers should be solicited from the subject council structure. Chuck will work with Margaret on the charge and issue a call for volunteers.

4. New Directions (members of CC, EBAG, SCAG and DAG)

The group had a lively discussion about present infrastructure and new directions. Chuck will be blogging the highlights. He encouraged other participants to blog as well. CC felt that “Collections” should be a more obvious element in the New Directions Framework.


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