From: rkenselaar_at_nypl.org
ALA/ALCTS
Chief Collection Development Officers of
Large Research Libraries Discussion Group
Saturday, June 28, 1997
8:30 - 11:30 AM
Moscone Convention Center MCC-135
San Francisco
Agenda
Heike Kordish (NYPL), Chair
Gay Dannelly (Ohio State), Secretary, Chair-elect
1. Introduction and announcements
2. Budget survey (Bob Sewell)
A report on a comparison of our respective 1996/97 materials budgets.
3. Nominating committee report (Ross Atkinson)
4. Update/question and answer session on reports from the Association
of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and the
Library of Congress (distributed in advance through COLLDV-L listserv).
5. Research Libraries Group collection development meeting (Tony
Ferguson) A report on a pre-conference meeting at RLG and recent work
in cooperative collection development.
6. Use criteria for selection (Bob Sewell)
What sort of use studies are libraries doing related to journals, books,
and electronic resources? How do we use this data? If we use data for
allocations/selection decisions are we being driven by short-term
"market forces" or are we making decision consisted with the values of
academia?
7. Fund raising for collection development (Nancy Gwinn)
What specific kinds of activities are Collection Development Officers
engaged in to establish collection development endowments and raise
funds for the purchase of special collections?
8. Electronic collections and wired faculty (Bonnie MacEwan)
How can research libraries help scholars and faculty use electronic
resources for teaching and research? How are electronic resources
relevant to faculty? What role do these resources play for faculty in
planning for their own research and their planning for their students'
research, individual learning, and classroom activities?
9. Selecting for digitization (Mark Sandler)
What materials from our collections should we digitize? Published
literature? Special collections? Text, images, sound or moving image
materials? New genres of communication? Can we apply anything we have
learned from our experience in selecting materials for reformatting for
preservation microfilming? Or is digitization something entirely
different?
10. Building area studies collections, individually and collectively
(Bill Schenck) Few of us can really monitor the vernacular language
collections being built at our institutions--specifically the "JACKPHY"
collections (Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hebrew and
Yiddish). How do we go about evaluating these collections? For
academic libraries, area studies collecting in general has lately
shifted from a geographic mode to a programmatic, or topical mode. How
do we cope with in this very interdisciplinary environment? What are
area studies collection development consortia doing to solve problems
that these materials present? What role do we as collection development
librarians play in these area study consortia? What has worked well for
them? What has not?
11. Budgeting for information resources in times of change (Linda
Gould) How do we resolve the tensions between centralized budgeting for
the myriad types of electronic information, along with the need to allow
selectors to continue making informed individual decisions about more
traditional works, or more specialized electronic resources? What are
we doing currently to deal with the continuing problem of rising costs
of serials (especially STM) and the need to build monograph collections?
What are the implications for the future of the scholarly monograph?
12. Gifts and Exchange Programs (Barbara Halporn)
How do gifts and the processing of gifts impact our collecting
activities? What are the important issues in donor relations, and how
are we addressing them? How vigorously are research libraries
maintaining exchange programs, particularly outside the former Soviet
Union?
Note: In past years this meeting had been followed by a Joint Meeting
of the Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries
Discussion Group and the Collection Development Librarians of Academic
Discussion Group. This is not scheduled this year. The reports from
the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries
and the Library of Congress, which were included in that meeting, are
included as part of agenda item 4 above.
6/11/97 HK/RWK
Received on Fri Jun 20 1997 - 17:10:39 EDT