A G E N D A
1. Announcements
2. Technical Services Review
3. Bookstore Task Force Report
4. 10 Millionth Volume Celebration
5. ARL Statistics
M I N U T E S
1. Announcements
Bernie Hurley will chair the search committee for the Associate University
Librarian and Director, Collections. Other members of the search committee
include Susan Wong (ex-officio), David Sullivan, Margaret Phillips, Gary
Peete, Ann Jensen, Gail Ford, and Jody Bussell. The Library is seeking the
services of an executive search consulting firm to both augment and
complement our standard search and recruitment processes for the AUL and
Director, Collections position. Three executive search agencies with
experience and specialization in the placement of high-level professionals
in higher education libraries will be under review and consideration, and
the RFP (Request for Proposal) process is a work-in-process.
Campus will also employ the services of executive search firms to assist
with the recruitment for a new Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a new
Vice Chancellor-Administration. Tom Leonard is a member of that search
committee.
The exhibition of "Our Collective Voice: The Extraordinary Work of Women in
California" runs from April 4 to June 3, 2005, in the Bernice Layne Brown
Gallery in the Doe Library. A reception on April 29 featured thirteen
distinguished women reading selections from the exhibition.
Peter Zhou circulated EAL's recent publication of an annotated bibliography
of Chinese rare books in the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley, listing 800
titles in 11,000 volumes, imprints and manuscripts dating back over a
thousand years. This bibliography was published by Shanghai Classics
Publishing House in March this year.
Lee Leighton announced that Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley will go
forward with a cooperative cataloging project. They have agreed that
Berkeley will catalog its Spanish backlog (15 months old), Harvard will
catalog its German backlog (5 years old), Stanford will work on its French
and Portuguese backlogs (4,500 titles), and Yale will catalog its Italian
backlog (going back to 1997). Yale will also do some German materials.
Project logistics will be discussed further at the American Library
Association meeting in June.
Following the March 31 Symposium on Scholarly Publishing, the University
Librarians met in San Francisco to discuss ideas and steps to break the
current models in publishing. At their May 6 summit meeting at UCLA, the
ULs will review and dissect the somewhat radical thinking to determine some
transformational ideas that the UCs might implement in lieu of the next
"big deal" with publishers.
A topic for discussion at a future Cabinet meeting: recent skirmishes over
the use of electronic reserves. Publishers contend that the University of
California is violating the "fair use" doctrine and that excessive use of
electronic reserves is reducing their profits. They seem to want a
transaction fee for each copy distributed. The university maintains that
the reserve system is operating within copyright guidelines and that
publishers' profits are not affected. University counsel thinks that
publishers may well sue over the issue.
2. Technical Services Review
Lee Leighton reported that he and Bernie Hurley had finished their
discussions with the Councils regarding the plans for the Technical
Services Review. Technical Services unit heads have reported on their
backlogs and discussed their unit tasks with Roundtable. Input from
Roundtable will be circulated to Admin and Cabinet. The Councils will be
contacted again and asked to prioritize the various tasks reported by the
Technical Services unit heads. Bob Wolven, Director of Bibliographic
Services at Columbia, has been asked to help us organize the feedback from
the Councils. A second consultant will be asked to help integrate the
resulting priorities into the process to obtain an Integrated Library System.
3. Bookstore Task Force Report
Dave Duer and the Bookstore Task Force met earlier today with the Admin
group. The task force needed some clarification before writing the final
report and submitting their recommendations. Preliminary recommendations
were reviewed with Admin. It is expected that there will be a short
moratorium on accepting in-kind donations and the Gifts & Exchange Program
will be interrupted temporarily. It was noted also that Bancroft Library
needs three months to relocate, during which its in-kind gifts program must
be put on hold.
4. 10 Millionth Volume Celebration
The 10 Millionth Volume Committee has compiled a list of several titles
that the Library has recently acquired or is in the process of acquiring,
along with a "wish list". The group will meet again to determine the next
steps in the process. Committee members believe that the event surrounding
the celebration of the 10 Millionth Volume presents a critical fund-raising
opportunity. Tom Leonard suggested that the committee might consider a
"theme" approach that could encompass a selection of up to 10 titles, in
lieu of a single item selection. Dave Duer will report back to Cabinet
following the committee's final meeting.
5. ARL Statistics
Tom Leonard distributed the ARL "rankings" for 2003-04, that will soon
appear in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Berkeley remains the top
listed public university research library in the United States, but Toronto
now stands ahead of Berkeley. It had been expected that given the 16% cuts
to its operations budget, it was unlikely that UC Berkeley could retain its
number 3 ranking. Indeed, it was a very close race with the top four
indexed as follows: #1 Harvard (2.47), #2 Yale (1.61), #3 Toronto (1.23),
#4 Berkeley (1.22).
(Rankings are based upon five ARL variables and analysis of 34 ARL
University Founding Members.)
The next Cabinet meeting will be on May 12.
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