ERC ST 060315Minutes/Meeting Notes Electronic Resources Steering Committee March 15, 2006: 10:30 to 11:30 Teleconference
Attending by phone: Tim Jewell, UW, Chair; Greg Doyle, Orbis Cascade Alliance staff; Joanna Haney, L&C College; Diane Carroll, OHSU; Carrie Fry, SPU; Heather Whipple, Reed; Emily Miller-Francisco, SOU
Absent: Susan Hinken, UP
Action Items: 1. Possibly contact Alliance Electronic Resources Committee members in preparation of session on ebooks and eResources statistics (Carrie and Tim) 2. Send outline of ebooks talk to Steering team (Carrie) 3. Send out agenda to membership by March 17th including comments that the agenda was based on input from the membership and that we are hoping for full participation (proxy is acceptable). (Tim) 4. Ask Alliance staff to send out an announcement about the place and time of the meeting and a survey about attendance. Add note that Tim will be sending out an agenda shortly. (Greg) 5. Query members about an interest in dinner the night before (April 20) or the evening of the meeting (April 21) (Greg) 6. Presenters may send handouts to Greg one week in advance if they would like copies made for the meeting 7. Greg will survey both Alliance Electronic Resources Committee and Collection Development and Management Committee about possible dates for the joint meeting when Tim notifies him to do so. 8. A charge written by Tim and Lynn Chmelir (Alliance-CDMC) will be sent to the planning committee for the joint meeting in September.
1. Planning April 21st ERC meeting
Preliminary Agenda for April 21, 2006 Alliance Electronic Resources Committee meeting
9:00 - pre-meeting coffee social time
10:00 - The Year in Review; ICOLC report (Greg, Tim)/ Minutes by Heather
11:00 - E-Journal packages under consideration and other e-journal issues (Greg)/ Minutes by Joanna · ACS subscription deal · Wiley InterScience · Blackwell Synergy · Cambridge
12:00 – Lunch (will shorten lunch if more meeting time required)
1:15 - E-books (Carrie)/ Minutes will be taken by Emily · Discussion of local/best practices, issues, uses · Barriers and how to overcome them, license issues, authentication and simultaneous users · More ideas not repeated here were discussed on the March 8, 2006 minutes. · Carrie will be sending an outline of talk out to Steering team members after canvassing members.
2:15 - E-resources statistics (Tim)/ Minutes will be taken by Diane · ICOLC discussion on e-resource use statistics · Possible topics include: Problems with finding statistics; summarize the services ScholarlyStats, SUSHI, database statistics; and ejournal publisher platform statistics. · Greg asked that Tim address the relationship between Counter and ScholarlyStats and why ejournal providers say they are counter-compliant but presentation of data is not consistent. · Serials Decision Database (Diane)
3:15 - Break
3:30 - General/Open discussion time for committee members to raise topics (Tim)/ Minutes by Carrie · Joint fall meeting · Timing of packages · ERM interest?
4:00 - End of meeting
2. Fall 2006 joint meeting of Alliance-ERC and Alliance-CDMC
3. Schedule another conference call before meeting on April 12 th in place of the April 19th prearranged call. Diane will not be available.
4. Do we know who has been nominated for Steering team? Executive committee made recommendations and John is confirming with Library Directors
Minutes prepared by: Diane Carroll, March 15, 2006; revised March 16, 2006 Approved: [this will be filled in by Chair or Alliance staff, following approval]
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