From Steve Bosch <sbosch_at_bird.library.arizona.edu>
ALCTS CMDS Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research
Libraries Discussion Group
AGENDA: ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, TX,
Saturday, January 15, 2000
8:30-11:30 a.m. Holiday Inn Riverwalk Tarantella 2-4
(REMEMBER TO CHECK THE PROGRAM FOR LAST MINUTE ROOM CHANGES!)
Announcements and Introductions
a. Introductions
b. Approval of Minutes of 1999 Annual Meeting
c. Early English Books Project (Mark Sandler)
d. Other Announcements
1. Report on the Nominating Committee (Steve Bosch)
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 Books. (Both these items were discussed at Annual but it
was suggested they be revisited since discussion had to be cut-off)
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
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?
5. 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?
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. Update on meeting with ARL concerning "The Changing Nature of
Collection Management in Research Libraries" and continued discussion.
(Gay Dannelly, et al)
9. Report on CRL's Creating New Strategies For Cooperative Collection
Development Seminar, and continued discussion on Cooperative Collection
Development of Print Formats: Costs and Savings. (Susan Rabe et al)
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?
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Notes and membership list are attached.
Stephen Bosch
Finance & Admin Services
University of Arizona Library
1510 E. University
Tucson, AZ
520-621-6452
520-621-9733 fax
Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 11:35:26 EST