Coordinating Committees

Collections and Resource Sharing Coordinating Committee

Minutes for the December 5, 2007 teleconference meeting

Time:  Meeting began at 9:05 a.m.

Attendance: Richard Reeb (chair), Karen Jander (minutes), Ewa Barczyk, Ron Hardy, John Jax, Lee Konrad, Paul Moriarty, Lisa Pillow, Tom Reich, Mary Rieder, Kathy Schneider
Absent: Dina Kaye

Minutes from the October 12, 2007 meeting were approved with corrections incorporated.  Ron Hardy will send approved minutes to the website.
http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/cuwlweb/committees/collections/meetings/

There was a brief discussion about problems with the CUWL CRS lists and problems posting and receiving emails.  Paul will continue to look into the situation.

January renewals of the Shared Electronic Collection

Karen Jander reported that the Collection Development Committee met on November 2nd and has recommended renewal of the following titles.

ABC Clio America: History & Life
ABI/Inform with Images
American Chemical Society Web Edition
American Chemical Society Archive
American Mathematical Society MathSciNet
BioOne (original collection only - expires 3/31)
Biological Abstracts via Web of Science
Cinahl Plus with full text (Ebsco)
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Emerald MCB
Gender Watch
Institute of Physics (expires in Feb)
ISI Web of Science
Nature
Project Muse (standard package)
Proquest Criminal Justice Periodical Index
New England Journal of Medicine

Changes are being recommended for the two remaining resources:

1)    Switch from Ovid to Ebsco for Mental Measurements Yearbook.  From the latter vendor we will also receive for a modest increase Tests in Print. (This change was unanimously supported.)
2)    Substitute for Criminal Justice Periodical Index with Full Text the A & I service, Criminal Justice Abstracts.  Both are Proquest/CSA products. (8 votes in favor of the change; 4 against; 2 abstentions).   

The CDC recommendations were then forwarded to the Collections and Resource Sharing Coordinating Committee. Voting on CDC’s recommendations, the CRS tally was: 9 in favor; 1 opposed.  John Jax expressed concerns about switching databases in the middle of the academic year.

Paul will be sending the revised budget statement and the costs for each campus for the American Chemical Society titles out at a later date.

Highlights of the CUWL October meeting

A CUWL 2009-2011 Budget/Din Planning Committee has been appointed.
The members are:
Valerie Malzacher -UW-RiverFalls (co-chair)
Pat Wilkinson - UW-Oshkosh (co-chair)
Ewa Barczyk - UW-Milwaukee
Ken Frazier (w/ Ed Van Gemert also participating) - UW-Madison
John Krogman - UW Platteville. 

CUWL met with Rebecca Martin and she will assist with the din.  The system provosts met and were very supportive of the Din request and wanted a draft of the request by January 1.  CRS will work with the Budget/Din Planning Committee by supplying information about the cost to expand access to materials.  The request will tie into Advantage Wisconsin.  CRS will work with the task force to expand access.  Madison will be working on an analysis of what major resources they have access to which is not available to others within System.  A 2 day workshop is being planned for June 4 and 5 in Madison.  It will be planned by the chairs of all the System coordinating committees.

Membership of the CUWL Document Delivery Working Group

Discussion took place about the make up of the Document Delivery Working Group that will be looking at spending the money set aside by CUWL to try and meet the needs of faculty at the comprehensive institutions.  Should faculty by on it?  Should a WILS representative be on it?

Those who volunteered or were recommended to serve on the committee at the 11/2/07 CDC meeting are:
Rick Krause, Parkside
Mindy King, Stevens Point
Jan Bogstad, Eau Claire
Bill Johnston, Stout
Judy Wurtzler, Platteville
Heather Weltin, Madison
Mark Rozmarynowski, UW-Baraboo-Sauk Co.

Ron Hardy will chair the working group and will contact individuals who have submitted their names to see if they can serve in the time frame that is required.  Lisa Pillow also volunteered to be on the committee – Suggested timeline - Report to CRS by January 14 2008.  Report to CUWL on January 23 2008

Library Dynamics

There was not a lot of information about the Library Dynamics product given at the last meeting even though it was mentioned in the minutes.  Questions about the profile should go to Howard Harris from Library Dynamics. hharris@librarydynamics.com
Profiles should be in by the 12th.  Richard is looking for a contact from each campus.  Mark Foster will be working with Paul on gathering the data.  Further training needs to be discussed.

Next meeting will be a teleconference on Wednesday, January 2,  2008 at 2:00.

Meeting adjourned at 10:00 a.m. 

(Minutes respectfully submitted by Karen Jander)