§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
SAALCK Directors’ Meeting
June 19, 1987
Minutes
Present: Mary Ellen Elsbernd, Chair, (NKU); Larry Besant (MoSU); Michael Binder (WKU); Don Lyons (KSY); Roxanna Jones for Paul Willis (UK); June Martin for Earnest Wehyrauch (EKU); John Griffin for Coy Harmon (MuSU); Harley Brooks (WKU).
The meeting convened at 10:05 a.m. in the conference room of Steely Library, NKU.
Michael Binder recapped the progress made to date on developing a proposal to the Council on Higher Education for a telefacsimile network among the SAALCK libraries. The conversation Binder had with Gary Cox, Deputy Executive Director of CHE, was most encouraging. Binder presented a cost comparison of the Xerox 7020 Telecopier for leasing and purchasing. Harley Brooks spoke to this report answering questions on how he arrived at his figures and detailing the benefits of the telecopier.
Binder moved that SAALCK prepare an actual proposal to present to Gary Cox before October 1. The motion received a second, and discussion followed. A time-table for preparation and presentation of the proposal was drawn up as follows:
- The narrative’s first draft, to be written by Binder and to include up-dated statistics to be prepared by Brooks, should be distributed by July 15;
- Deadline for comments on the first draft is July 22. Binder would try to incorporate any comments before;
- A meeting to put the proposal into final form was scheduled for July 30 at 2:00 p.m. (EST) at NKU;
- The proposal in finished form would be ready for distribution on August 1;
- During August all SAALCK directors are to present the proposal to their respective university presidents for support;
- The proposal would be included on the agenda of the September 2-3 meeting of university presidents, with the SAALCK chair present to answer any final questions. (Dr. Allbright of MoSU has promised to see that this gets on the agenda if he is asked to do so by the end of this month.);
- The proposal would be sent to Gary Cox, CHE, by mid-September.
Discussion continued on the subject of the narrative itself. The stress would be placed on the necessity for up-grading due to the expected increase in interlibrary loan traffic, the benefits of resource sharing among the universities during a time of low budget increases, and the potential of telefacsimile apart from document delivery.
It was agreed that the proposal would be to purchase rather than lease, and that the statistics be based on an expected 25% increase n traffic annually.
The motion to prepare a written proposal to CHE requesting funding for the purchase, installation and operation of telefacsimile equipment in all SAALCK libraries passed unanimously. Mary Ellen Elsbernd had received a “yes” vote over the telephone during the meeting from UL library director, Martha Bowman.
There being no further business the meeting adjourned at 12:00 noon.
Respectfully submitted,
/signed/
John B. Griffin
June 21, 1987