UC Sociology Consortium

UC/Stanford Sociology Consortium

ANNUAL REPORT 1994/95

ORGANIZATION

On November 18, 1994, the UC/Stanford Sociology Consortium took a closer look at functioning as the Social Sciences Consortium. This was a result of the following developments: discussions at a meeting (UCLA) in February, the Northern California Social Sciences Selectors meeting held at Stanford in April and the UCI meeting of November 18. Membership to this group of primarily Sociology librarians was to be extended to all Social Sciences selectors defined according to individual campus programs.

A. Membership to the Sociology Consortium includes:

Beth Sibley UCB, Mike Winter UCD, Pauline Manaka UCI, Roberta Medford UCLA, Nancy Koller UCR, Sally Willson Weimer UCSB, Alan Ritch UCSC, Kathy Creely, UCSD and Tony Angiletta, Stanford University. Tony serves as the CDC Liaison.

As of September 22, 1995 Cheryl Gomez is the new UCSC selector replacing Alan Ritch. Beth Sibley and Kathy Creely are the co-chairs 1995-96 to succeed Pauline Manaka who served as chair since August 1993 following Irene Hurlbert (UCSD).

B. After considerable discussion (Sep 22 meeting), data gathering and analysis, the consortium has concluded that its proposed reorganization as a much larger social sciences group had few practical advantages, and that cooperative collection development would be more efficiently done by more specific disciplinary definition.

PROJECTS

The following are projects under development and accomplished in 1994-95:

Roster of Social Sciences Selectors

Kathy Creely led the development of a roster in Procite of Social Sciences Selectors by Campus, discipline and alphabetical. This list has been interfiled in the new UC Subject Selectors WWW file which may be found at http://www.ucsc.edu/-aritch/edira.html developed by Alan Ritch.

Electronic Resources:

a. SOCIOFILE. The effort to lobby for more votes to have it on MELVYL was made with reasonable success. A status report at the 9/22 meeting indicated that the database would probably be made accessible through FirstSearch sometime during the next few months.

b. COOPERATIVE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT efforts to share lists of Internet resources continue. The need to create a separate working group to take the work further in accordance with the University's mission to create a Digital Library is an immediate goal.

Other Projects:

c. MINI SCAP proposals project was not successful. The proposed titles were available or acquired by one of the Libraries in the system.

d. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND GOALS (see attached draft)

Following the decision at the September 22 meeting, the guidelines apply to the Sociology Consortium.

e. SOCIOLOGY JOURNALS

The request for lists of "endangered" titles commitment by each campus for discussion at the September 22 meeting has led to a tentative commitment by campus. The final reviewing is continued via e-mail, and the final list will be shared with CDC.

f. Additional new titles from Sociological Abstracts were shared and discussion regarding possible addition by campuses.

Previously Suggested Projects:

h. The collection of all Collection Development Policy statements. So far, for the Sociology collections UCB, UCSC, UCLA and Stanford are missing.

i. Microform Research Sets in Sociology: a compilation of UC holdings, etc.

j. Journal holdings from Stanford, ranked and discussed along with UC holdings.

THE FUTURE

The reconstitution of the group to Sociology makes such issues as funding for meetings less difficult to address. This group has previously held conference calls and communicates well via the listserv UCSTSOC-L. The new Social Sciences directory indicates that several other disciplines, including Anthropology, have enough interested selectors to initiate collection development projects in the near future.

Pauline Manaka, UCI.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND GOALS: SOCIOLOGY CONSORTIUM

*NOTE: These are not in priority order.

The UC-Stanford Sociology Collection Development Consortium is composed of librarians from the UC campuses and Stanford University who are responsible for developing and managing collections in Sociology. The definition of sociology here, is inclusive of any program so designated by the different campus libraries. Members of this group also participate in other UC/Stanford consortia. Members may also form other networking groups according to specific disciplines.

GOALS

1. To develop formal collaborative collection development agreements based on programmatic needs and strengths of individual campuses

2. To make policy recommendations regarding issues related to collection development, management, evaluation, and access.

3. To share more information on developments in collection development on issues such as electronic resources.

4. To help develop the digital library by coordinating activities at individual campus levels.

5. To coordinate projects and make policy recommendations related to serial selections, cancellations, and access.

6. To promote the exchange and development of instructional tools and checklists in Sociology.

7. To identify preservation needs and coordinate preservation projects related to Sociology.

8. To investigate how UC/Stanford Libraries can use ILL to enhance collaboration with regard to speed up access, save in journal costs and other related aspects.

9. To coordinate information on data sets holdings/access and develop projects to enhance cooperation systemwide.

10. To promote adequate and effective bibliographic access through the MELVYL (R) system.

11. To identify and provide access to electronic resources in sociology and related fields and to assist faculty and students with electronic research.

Adopted 9/22
UC/Stanford Sociology Consortium

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