ERC ST 080116

Orbis Cascade Alliance Electronic Resource Committee Steering Committee Meeting Notes
Teleconference 1 PM-2 PM
January 16, 2008

Attendees: Diane Grover; Donna Packer; Greg Doyle; Joanna Haney; Laurel Kristick; Lee Keene; Teresa Hazen
Notetaker: Diane Grover

Per Greg, Executive Committee reviews committee nominations and should be meeting tomorrow. They may make a new appointment to this committee to replace Anna Creech at tomorrow’s meeting depending on their agenda.

Annual meeting agenda planning: Greg sent out survey responses prior to meeting. We came up with 4 main topics. Plan for approximately 1-1.25 hrs. per topic. Results and discussion:

ACS: 21 responses high or medium. Possibly first or last on agenda to accommodate those who don’t want to participate in that segment? Greg: example of discussion we need to have on cost distribution that could be useful even for non-participants. 
Greg will lead and will work with some people to hash out some possible models to get conversation started.  Would it be worth having ACS attend? Greg: we can if wanted. As far as we know, no replacement for Alan Diehlman yet. Greg will get a small group together to work on ahead of the meeting. 

Streaming media: 29 responses high or medium. Ask PCC to come back and update their experience? New technical services person (Jeff Ring) and they have expanded the number of titles.  Other related topics: when does it make sense to buy DVD’s with streaming rights over access? Hear from someone streaming from their own server. Questions about FMG license signing: Greg doesn’t know when it will be signed. Greg also not sure about renewal process for FMG. 
Teresa can contact PCC. We can use listserv to post requests for speakers/participants. Greg: we could bring in outside speakers including librarians outside the Alliance. Teresa and Joanna will work on together.

E-Books: 27 high or medium. Perhaps include sub-topic on e-reference. Joanna: we can work out a more focused topic between now and April.  
Diane: possibly some UW contribution based on recent work by internal E-Books Committee. Laurel: also willing to work on. Both UW and OSU have EBL. Possible joint program/project with the CDMC? Greg will send notes from their meeting.

Greg: met with ejournal publishers at ALA. Expecting proposals especially Science Direct (2008 last year of current contract). Greg suggests reserving some time for ejournal proposals, especially Elsevier, Brill, Taylor and Francis (including Haworth). 
Greg wants to leave this as tentative agenda item, depending on timing, complexity, etc.

Donna: 3 year deals with Wiley, Blackwell, Cambridge but Springer not. She’s wondering why. Greg: tradeoffs such as price cap not that attractive. Timing has been late in the year.

Other topics suggestions from surveys: e-reference, Alliance status on “big deals”, new generation catalog, federated searching, archival rights and perpetual access, Web 2.0 initiatives, synchronizing subscription schedule to July 1-June 30.
Synchronizing subscriptions: Greg: perhaps a larger topic: is there a way or ways to make the whole process more efficient?
New generation catalog: is this really a good topic for this group or covered better by other groups. Greg: timing might not be right to do this year.  There is a lot up in the air in the Alliance. Next year might be better for this topic. 
Kyle: is he currently working on a project that would be interesting to ER? He is working on a front end to Summit, but not sure whether that would be applicable.
Big Deals: Greg: would fall into the ejournal section.
Archival rights and perpetual access: pretty full agenda, can it be separate topic? Or can it be rolled into other presentations? Also fits with the CD group and distributed archive.
Web 2.0 initiatives: which might be applicable to ER? More likely to be focused on access. 
Federated searching: Joanna not sure we need to do this. We did something last year. They are launching a service this year, but no experience yet. OK to ignore for April’s meeting.

 

Next meeting: report on agenda planning progress
Feb. 20, 1-2 p.m.