ERC ST 051116Electronic Resources Steering Team Teleconference—Minutes November 16, 2005 Members attending: Tim Jewell (UW), Chair, Heather Whipple (Reed), Diane Carroll (OHSU), Emily Miller-Francisco (SOU), Susan Hinken (UP), Carrie Frye (SPU), Joanna Haney (L&C)
Email updates from Greg on Springer and Elsevier deals, and ABC-CLIO Tim reviewed the items in Greg Doyle’s email of 11/11/05, indicating he would not be able to attend this teleconference. Greg is working on the Springer license, and is waiting for libraries to return their spreadsheets. Tim reports that Council has sent kudos to Greg and Diane for their work on the ScienceDirect deal. UW and WSU had not realized they would lose a shared UTL if they cancel more than 3% of their titles. They are negotiating this issue and also the requirement of having only one print subscription agent. There is also a problem regarding archival content. The revised price distribution model for ABC-CLIO seems to be acceptable to most libraries, as noted in Greg’s email. Other Diane and Greg will be meeting with Barbara Kaplan from Blackwell in December on collection development.
Annual ERC meeting Tim suggested the annual meeting in May might be a joint meeting with the Alliance Collection Development and Management Committee (CDMC). A discussion of issues involved in e-journal packages could include:
Tim noted that the above questions are of interest to technical services, access services and cataloging staff, and an all-day meeting organized by the ER and CD committees, but open to other interested Summit librarians (staff?) might be well-received. Tim will follow up with Lynn Chmelir (CDMC Chair).
Communications Tim asked if there are problems with communication between the Steering Committee and the ER committee members. Questions: Are they satisfied? Should we ask for feedback, in a Zoomerang survey, for example? We decided to: § ask members if they have items for the agenda for the May meeting § let members know when a Steering Committee meeting is approaching so they can communicate ideas, concerns, etc. to be addressed § send minutes of ER-ST meetings to members or point people to posted minutes, since sending messages with attachments through Orbis Cascade lists has been problematic in the past. § make sure committee members know who’s on the Steering Committee (in the email about the next teleconference call), along with email addresses and phone numbers § make phone calls in early 2006 to all ER members, to ask for ideas for the proposed joint meeting in May, and just generally see how things are going
Business The chair-elect (Joanna) will take over the task of setting the agenda for future conference calls, with Tim and Greg’s advice and suggestions. A suggestion was made that we ask the Alliance for someone to take minutes at the May meeting, especially if it is a joint all-day meeting Diane asked about an in-person meeting of the Steering Committee. Tim will check with John Helmer about this. Perhaps we can have one before the May meeting.
Next meeting: Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 10:30 (teleconference) Carrie and Emily will not be present.
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