From: Lou Pitschmann <alap_at_macc.wisc.edu>
ALCTS CMDS
Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries
Discussion Group
ALA Annual Meeting
Saturday, June 26, 1999
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Radisson Hotel, Grand Ballroom A
1500 Canal Street
(CHECK PROGRAM FOR POSSIBLE CHANGE IN ROOM ASSIGNMENT.)
Announcements and Introductions
a. Introductions
b. Approval of Minutes of 1999 Midwinter Meeting
c. Early English Books Online (Mark Sandler)
d. Other Announcements
1. Report of the Nominating Committee (Gay Dannelly)
2. Discussion of Reports submitted by ARL, CRL, and LC prior to the meeting
3. Membership Review: Criteria for Membership and Process for Notifying
Members
(Lou Pitschmann)
4. Electronic Resources.
a. E-Texts in the Humanities.
The increasing availability of e-resources in the humanities appears to be
greater than users' demand. Are publishers ahead of consumers' needs? Do
training programs and/or e-text centers sufficiently increase demand for and
use of these resources to justify greater investment in e-texts for the
humanities at this time?
(Lou Pitschmann)
b. E-Books.
E-books are proliferating (inter alia, netLibrary.com). How are libraries
incorporating these into their collections? What is known thus far about
use of
e-books provided by libraries? What are the costs and costs per use?
(Gordon Rowley)
c. Subject Specialists' Homepages.
A growing number of collection development staff have created homepages
describing local collections and with links to other resources. To what extent
are these pages part of a larger coordinated CDM program? What criteria are
used in their creation? Who reviews and/or approves content, format, etc.?
(Bill Schenck)
d. Consortia and the Purchase/Licensing of Electronic Resources: Benefits and
Drawbacks.
Through consortial arrangements we have been able to consolidate purchasing
power realizing some savings, improve licensing terms, develop new forms of
collection sharing; but to what extent have we lost control and focus in
collection development through the following: (a) top-down decision making in
state-wide consortia without much regard to local need; (b)purchases of
packages that cannot be individualized to local needs; (c) complicated and
remote acquisition procedures, at times with a diminished relationship with
vendors. (Bob Sewell)
5. Special Collections.
a. Secondary Works in Special Collections.
To what extent do/should special collections acquire secondary works for the
"context" of their primary collections if the secondary works duplicate
holdings in the general collection? Is the commonly argued opinion that
"scholars who come to use special collections should be assured that secondary
works be THERE, and not circulating" a valid justification in light of
(current) fiscal constraints, other unmet needs, or simply other priorities?
(Deborah Jakubs)
b. ARL Survey on Special Collections. Summary of Findings.
6. Foreign Language STM Publications.
As English continues to grow as the "language of preference" for scholarly
communication, is there a need for foreign-language STM publications in our
collections? Which libraries in North America are collecting these materials?
(CRL? LC? NLM? NAL?) Is there a growing distributed national collection in
academic libraries? What are the demands for these titles by users? Do these
materials represent a serious gap in North American collections?
7. Draft ARL Discussion Paper, "The Changing Nature of Collection
Management in Research Libraries." (General Discussion Item)
8. Have Collection Development Theories and Practices Kept Pace with Shifting
Trends and Priorities?
Will the CDM practices and theories articulated in the 1950s and 1960s
serve us
well in the coming 5-10 years? Are the current changing modes of scholarly
communication significantly influencing how we build collections? Have fiscal
constraints changed how we develop and manage research library collections?
Have modifications in higher education over the past 10-20 years (e.g.,
decreased funding, new research and teaching priorities, greater emphasis on
journal literature) changed significantly what we do? Have selection practices
changed; should they? How successfully are we managing collections and access
to information? What are CMD's priorities for the coming decade? Will
selectors need significantly different skills in 2005 than they needed in
1995? Are we planning the future or merely responding to it as it arrives
one day at a
time?
9.Cooperative Collection Development of Print Formats: Costs and Savings.
With few exceptions (e.g., membership in CRL), research libraries appear
not to have embraced cooperative collection development on a large scale.
Can large research libraries rely on cooperative collection development in
fields that
are not just minor areas of interest or completely out of scope? Are there
examples, of successful large-scale cooperative projects to acquire, process,
and maintain print collections on a collaborative basis? Can any members of
this group cites examples and provide information on the what contributed to
the success of the cooperative effort. Are there examples of significant
savings? Satisfactory access to collections? Are there examples of coordinated
approval plan profiles?
Louis A. Pitschmann, Ph.D. phone: 608-262-2795
Associate Director
Collection Development & Management email: alap_at_macc.wisc.edu
General Library System
University of Wisconsin-Madison fax: 608-265-2754
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706-1494
USA
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