UC Sociology Consortium Meeting
UC San Diego, Geisel Library
Meeting Minutes - October 24, 1996
Attendance: Kathy Creely, Richard Fitchen, Nancy Koller, Pauline Manaka, Roberta Medford, CDC Liaison Alan Ritch, Beth Sibley, & Sally Willson Weimer
Minutes of meeting at UCB, 9/22/95, by Kathy Creely - approved as distributed
Campus reports
Cooperative Collection Development related to data files
Electronic Social Sciences & Government Data Library Consortium SSDLC
Jim Jacobs, UCSD, Reported on consortial proposal and projects of UCB, UCSD, Harvard U., Oregon State U., & Stanford U. Proposa1 includes pilot projects, social & population data sets, and possibly use web to share. Several questions and options were discussed, such as what were responsibilities of members and what were the costs. And, will the data resources be available to other UC campuses.
Ronnie Coates - reported on Election Archives originated by political science Prof. Lijphart, regarding district level election results in 26 foreign countries. Ms. Coates also reported on efforts to digitize these materials.
CDC Report - Alan Ritch
He reported on electronic and consortial projects, including the Encoded archival digital archive project which is a part of the consortial groups, there was discussion on changing roles of intercampus selection groups. Some intrinsic benefits are endangered serials last copy projects. Group models may change. Some suggested needs: assess subject focused data bases, such as FRANCIS.
PAIS-SocAbs Task Force Report - Beth reported that Michael Winter, UCD, chairs the task force and southern members serve as liaisons. PAIS is now available and Soc Abs will be fully available soon (subsequently it is now available). Guides are available. Feedback is welcome. The task force held its meeting 15 May at DLA. Action: Give Michael Winter suggestions and comments.
SocAbs Index Project - Jill Blaimers attended in place of Terry Owen from SocAbstracts, Inc. She discussed and surveyed potentia1 changes to SocAbstracts data base field structure, specifically value and use of identifier or indexer phases in comparison to descriptors. She was interested in elements such as dependent and independent variables, tests/measures, population/geographics, and additional information. She welcomed comments and suggestions. She reported the Oct. 1996 issue of Note Us from Soc Abstracts announces their SAI web search service is now available.
Sociology Journal Projects Update
Campus Commitments: Endangered Sociology Journals
The list was distributed. Each of us needs to check our current holdings - are they still active.
ACTION: Send Roberta - status of titles for your campus
Updating Master List of July 1994 - in progress
ACTION: Send Roberta new (and old) cancellations, new subscriptions
Dec. 1995 issue of Note Us (Soc Abs) - lists New Source Coverage
Beth searched UC MELVYL for titles listed as "full" coverage; each of us needs to check our local system for holdings (our orphan list is getting longer).
ACTION: Kathy will check for price information and send to reflector.
Consortium web page - Sally and Kathy will work to develop a prototype; the UC Stanford Univ. U. S. history & women's studies consortium has a good web page as example: http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/ushist/consort/consort.html.
ACTION: Send Sally and Kathy suggestions for the web page
Rotation of Chair/Next Meeting:
Thanks to Beth and Kathy for co-chairing this year; Sally wi11 begin and Kathy will continue to co-chair. We need to begin to plan and schedule our next meeting.
Future Projects/Plans
Update our endangered titles list(we need all of your suggestions)
Several items on agenda - may have been postponed, may be considered for future projects, or I did not write them down:
Electronic journals - selection and access
Sociology collections policy statements - may need to update because of electronic and web resources, digital library Web resources in sociology
Revised roster of members was distributed to reflector ucstsoc-l@uci.edu by Beth, 3 May 1996; members were suggested to give her corrections and revisions. Linda McCann, Sociology Librarian, USC, was suggested to be invited to join our consortium; her email is: lmccann@calvin.usc.edu (subsequently revised and distributed 29 Oct. 1996).
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