ERC ST 070521Electronic Resources Committee – Steering Team
May 21, 2007
Conference call meeting
Members present:
Joanna Haney, Lewis & Clark College, Chair Teresa Hazen, Mt. Hood Community College Carrie Fry, Seattle Pacific University Donna Packer, Western Washington University Lee Keene, Whitman College Greg Doyle, Orbis Cascade Alliance Electronic Resources Program Manager
Members excused:
Diane Carroll, Washington State University Laurel Kristick, Oregon State University
The meeting began at 1:00 PM
Reminder: Annual meeting minutes need to be in to Greg Doyle by the end of this week, Friday May 25th.
1. Annual Meeting re-cap
General consensus is that the annual meeting went very well with a variety of agenda items that kept people’s interest. It was noted that the session with the ACS rep., though uncomfortable, was important to occur since he is representing a company that is changing its pricing model that will have budget implications for some ACS participants.
2. ACS Renewal Discussion
The Steering Team discussed further a subcommittee that needs to be formed to work on the ACS renewal. This had initially brought up at the full meeting in April by Greg. Laurel Kristick (Oregon State University), Barbara Valentine (Linfield College), Donna Packer (Western Washington University), Carrie Fry (Seattle Pacific University), and Greg Doyle (Alliance) have agreed to serve on this subcommittee. Joanna will advertise on the alliance-er list for one more volunteer to serve on this subcommittee. This group will meet to discuss the problems with the current ACS pricing structure and strategize on ways to make sure all ACS participants are treated equitably.
Action: A new subgroup will be formed to work on the ACS Renewal. Joanna will solicit the need for one more volunteer via the list email.
Joanna briefly described an email from the ACS rep., Alan Diehlmann, regarding issues raised during the full meeting in April. ACS acknowledged some mistakes in the spreadsheet, re-worked the deal and stated there would be a 5.75% increase in price for the upcoming renewal and a 5.29% increase in 2009. Also mentioned was the possibility of sending only one invoice to the Alliance rather than individual invoices. Greg and others noted this could pose other new problems and further discussion with ACS about invoicing needs to occur.
3. Follow-up to discussion led by Donna Packer on staff impact on e-journal packages
The Steering Team discussed ways that they could take action on the questions and comments generated during this session. One idea put forward are to get a subcommittee to work on a best practices document and/or an outline of an e-journal package deal from start to finish, step-by-step. Another idea was to have a presentation by either this subcommittee or a different group that already has good processes and documentation in place to handle e-journal packages and their impact on staff time. Rather than move forward with any of these ideas, the Steering Team decided that a literature survey would be a good place to start. Donna Packer volunteered to do this.
Action: Donna Packer will do a literature survey on best practices for dealing with e-journal packages. She will report back to the Steering Team on her findings.
4. Streaming Media
After hearing from PCC and the rep. from Films Media Group (FMG) at the full membership meeting, the Steering Team talked about the next steps in moving ahead. These were some of the ideas discussed:
Greg did say that FMG is very interested in working with the Alliance and that the company is planning to significantly increase its streaming speed by this fall.
Next meeting June 18, 1:00 PM.
Meeting adjourned at 1:45 PM.
Minutes submitted by Teresa Hazen May 23, 2007
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