Electronic Resources Committee-Steering Team
April 2, 2007
Conference call meeting
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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
Members not present:
Laurel Kristick, Oregon State University
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I. The agenda for this meeting was to discuss the Annual Meeting scheduled for
April 27, 2007, which will be held at PCC/Sylvania.
1. Joanna asked if all guest presenters invited to the Annual Meeting have been
asked whether they need parking permits, or will stay for the lunch.
It appears all guests we currently know about have been contacted.
2. Greg said the Films Media Group sales representative who had agreed to
attend the meeting has resigned his position; Greg is waiting to hear whether
another FMG representative will be able to come.
3. There was discussion about whether to invite an ACS (American Chemical
Society) sales representative to attend to talk about and answer questions
regarding their new pricing plan. We’ll decide this later, after Greg receives
actual pricing. One question he has is how this new pricing plan will affect
established consortial deals.
4. Joanna will send the agenda to ERC members as soon as all the details
are set.
5. Joanna asked for volunteers to take minutes during the course of the
meeting. She will do so for the ACS portion of the agenda; Donna will take
minutes during the video/audio downloading presentation; Carrie will cover the
federated search engines presentation; Teresa will take minutes during the
impact-on-staff-time of e-journal packages section.
6. Greg noted that he will be away from April 16-25; Joanna will be away the
week of April 16, as will Diane. There will still be a few days before the
meeting to answer any last-minute questions about the meeting.
7. Joanna will look for a different place to have the post-meeting “happy
hour”, since we will be at PCC/Sylvania, instead of George Fox/Portland. She
will also ask Susie Scroggins for the requested flipchart and easel for the
meeting.
II. Miscellaneous
1. Diane asked about the ScienceDirect UTLs and when
we will have to renew. Greg indicated we are in Year Two of that deal.
2. Greg asked about BIOSIS and what people think of the Ovid
interface. The Thomson Gale people (ISI) have indicated they would provide
BIOSIS to our subscribing libraries at the same price we are paying Ovid, if we
want to switch.
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Next meeting: May 21, 2007 at 1:00 p.m.
Minutes prepared by: Joanna Haney, April 2, 2007
approved: [this will be filled in by Chair or Alliance staff, following approval]
