ERC ST 070129Electronic Resources Committee-Steering Team January 29, 2007 Conference call meeting Members attending by teleconference: Joanna Haney, Lewis and Clark College, Chair Teresa Hazen, Mt. Hood Community College Diane Carroll, Washington State University Carrie Fry, Seattle Pacific University Donna Packer, Western Washington University Lee Keene, Whitman College Greg Doyle, Alliance Staff
1. Choose a date for the annual ERC spring meeting After some discussion of other meetings that will be occurring this spring (Timberline May 19-21; NASIG – May 31-June 3; IUG – May 14-17), three dates were selected to poll members on attendance. They are: April 27, May 11 and June 8. Greg will send out a survey and ask for suggestions for topics also.
2. Choose a date for the next Alliance-erc steering team meeting Next meeting date – Feb 19th is President’s Day. Change to February 26th, 2007.
3. ACS Meeting at ALA Greg met with Alan Diehlmann at ALA Mid-Winter in Seattle (January, 2007) but was not able to obtain pricing for the ACS collection for the Alliance. A target of 2008 was given to change the pricing model to a Carnegie class system with three categories per class based on FTE and usage. There were more questions than answers.
Some members may experience up to a 10% increase per year for 5 years as the pricing system is implemented over a 5 year period. ACS is trying to right the inequities of the current model. Donna noted that ACS was no stranger to high profit margins and later sent Diane this information by Steven Bachrach “Chemical Publication: A Critical Evaluation. Serials Librarian v. 42, no.1/2, pp. 21-28 “After expenses, the non-profit American Chemical Society made thirty-four million dollars on their publication products. Remember this is a non-profit organization.”
Greg would like to allow time to talk about this at the spring meeting.
4. ERC Archives and sending attachments Maintaining a 2-year archive is the reason we cannot have attachments on the Alliance-erc listserv. Even a 6 month archive would need a lot of maintenance. Greg suggested we poll everyone about the need for attachments compared to the need for the archives. We have the largest archives of all groups.
Greg will remind people about the archive and put out a survey asking if members use the archive and what they use it for. Also, it was suggested he ask how many times do you use the archives in a month or year?
5. Results of the Zoomerang survery
1. What is your level of interest in a study of the impact of e-journal packages on staff time? Interest: 87%. It was not clear whether members were looking for best practices or whether they wanted a detailed discussion of how other members were handling the impact of ejournals in the serials division. A half hour session at the end of the day with guided questions was proposed to probe what members would like to know about this topic.
2. What is your level of interest in an investigation of audio/visual download purchases? Interest: 74%. PCC is trialing Films for the Humanities. Greg met with them at ALA and they will be sending a proposal that can be presented at the spring meeting. A library can subscribe to have the rights to stream the film or can buy digital rights. It is a fairly complicated business model, but for first year library staff can pick the films for screening rights and have $25 for each film as a trial. In the second year, they could buy digital rights. Any film that they carry, that someone has purchased, others could buy digital rights. This is a new concept so it might need a lot of education to move this forward.
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4/5. What is your level of interest in a consortial pay-per-view agreement with one or more publishers? If interested, which publishers are of interest. Interest: 75%. Greg is investigating.
6-7 Will you be attending the April OLA meeting? If not, would you be interested in seeing a panel on federated search engines at the ER spring meeting? Interest: 95%. Joanna will be working on putting together a panel of Alliance librarians who will speak about the federated search engine they have at their library.
8. What is your level of interest in the development of standardized language for consortial licenses? Interest: 96% Diane and Greg will discuss this. What Diane had in mind was 3 or 4 statements that we may want to include in all Alliance-er licenses that when appropriate, referenced our desire to be able to use an agent or not, etc.
9. Talk about Business resources? Maybe Birds of a feather type topic.
Maybe a panel? Donna is interested if someone else will work on it.
For next meeting: 1. Firm agenda 2. Two months to get the meeting together. Make an effort to do some of this by e-mail before the next meeting.
Note from Joanna after the meeting – “I was going to suggest at the end of our conference call yesterday that a sub-committee of 2-3 of us should meet to put together a rough draft of the agenda for the ERC spring meeting. We already have pretty much content, but need to think about the order and length of time to be allotted to each topic, panel, and presentation on the agenda. I've asked Teresa and Greg to meet with me, since we are all in Portland. We'll meet in February and submit a plan before the next conference call, so everyone will have time to consider and comment on it, and we can make changes during that meeting. I hope this meets with your approval.” Next meeting: February 26, 2007 at 1:00 PM. Minutes prepared by: Diane Carroll, February 4, 2007.
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