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Meeting Minutes - November 18, 1994

Attending: Beth Sibley (UCB), Pauline Manaka, Chair (UCI), Roberta Medford and Kati Radics (UCLA), Sally Willson-Weimer (UCSB), Alan Ritch (UCSC), Kathy Creely (UCSD), Tony Angiletta (Stanford)


1. Sociological Abstracts

After welcome and introductions all around, Sociological Abstracts and its various electronic equivalents were reported on and discussed. Tony reported on experience at Stanford with various formats and cautioned that via gateways such as FirstSearch searching capabilities are reduced from the CD-ROM version. They have decided to pay or otherwise get OCLC to customize the database to restore full access. Stanford will be making a full report on the format comparisons which CFC will find useful in its consideration of an electronic version of Sociological Abstracts.

Pauline suggested that we should survey all UC/Stanford subs to paper and CD-ROM versions in order to make a case to CFC for mounting on Melvyl and Sally added that any use stats we have should be included. Alan reassured the group that the database is fairly high on CFC's list, but that CFC would welcome more information about the quality, cost and availability of various versions. Funds for licensing this and other high priority resources still remain uncertain. Kathy is going to seek info on functionality via different modes from the database producer, who is located in San Diego.

Alan informed us that CFC's next "call" for campus feedback will go out in early December, asking for a list of interests from each campus, ranked in high, medium and low. In the second phase of the call sometime in January, the list will go out for votes. ACTION: Kathy making inquiries of Soc. Abstracts. Each campus will survey themselves and report on the reflector what we are currently paying for paper/CD-ROM of Soc Abstracts/Sociofile, and include any use statistics that we have or can gather.


2. Cooperative Collection Development of Remote Electronic Resources

Alan presented a draft charge on behalf of CDC and asked for our comments. Beth asked/said that aren't we really doing this already and anyone can look on each others gophers? Roberta felt that some of us aren't doing as much with Internet as others, and this charge would get us moving, but that it should more accurately be called "collection inventorying." Tony asked what would be done with it when it is finished?

Alan encouraged those like Beth who are already habitual explorers of the Internet not simply to "inventory" but to evaluate, select and share what they find with their fellow social science selectors. He offered to continue, with Kathy's advice, to "select" in anthropology and urged Sally to continue to add to her useful guides to sociology resources on the net. In response to Tony's comments about structure and institutional "locus," Alan argued for a more orderly and coherent presentation of network resources with selection and annotation that emphasized more explicitly accessibility from UC (and Stanford!) and relevance to our programs.

Alan said that he appreciates this very useful feedback on this project. Tony and Alan will present the charge again for additional clarification and division of the work at the next Soc Sci selectors meeting. It was agreed that the group's statement of purpose and goals might include a section on the cooperative collection development of electronic resources.

Campus reports were made on various Internet training being done. Sally reported that Chadwyck-Healey is not continuing ERASMUS, and that Sage may take it over. Stanford has obtained tapes of their faculty cited in ISI databases and who cited them, which they will use for serials cancellation reviews.


3. Mini-SCAP

Sally shared various catalogs of microform sets in Sociology, broadly defined. She will get the ball rolling on the reflector with ideas for possible Mini-Scap proposals, and the rest will join in the discussion.


4. CD Capital Campaigning

Beth reported that UCB selectors are required to write "case statements" for each collection area. Campuses reported on various development activities for collection development and on the status of CD policies/statements. Tony offered to send to anyone interested thaty CD policy statements written by Stanford selectors, which he often uses for development work.


5. Social Sciences Group

The group discussed reorganizing into a social sciences consortium and the various issues (eg., North-South vs. Statewide) involved. Tony suggests writing a Statement of Purpose and Goals, modeled on Women's Studies group, for Social Sciences, and include 2 first projects as examples. The draft statement should then be send to all social science selectors for reactions.

ACTION: Pauline, assisted by Sally and Beth, will draft the Statement and put on reflector for comments. Everyone (if you haven't already) send social science selectors roster from your campus to Kathy and she will compile.


6. Core Sociology Serials List Project

With time running out, Roberta suggested that each campus come prepared to our next meeting with lists of titles on the "endangered" list which we are willing to commit to, and then uncommitted titles can be dealt with at the meeting. Beth agreed to compile a list of new sociology journals, covering those newly indexed in SA as well as any others identified. She asked consortium members to send her info on new titles for which they have gotten samples, ads or citations.

ACTION: Everyone review "endangered" list and select titles your campus will commit to for our next meeting. Send Beth info on new serial titles in sociology.

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