§ SAALCK Directors' Meeting
April 2, 1992
Draft Minutes
Present: Ken Barksdale, Eastern; Mike Bender, Western; Larry Besant, Morehead; Barbara Hale, UK, ILL; Coy Harmon, Murray; Karen McDaniel, Kentucky State, Marian Winner, Northern.
- Minutes of the October 4, 1991 meeting were not available.
- Old Business:
A & B: Task forces on circulation and document delivery:
Mike Bender moved to abolish the task force on reciprocal lending and work through the SAALCK Directors referring items for appropriate review and for facilitating these activities.
The motion was seconded and opened for discussion. UK indicated they were looking at Internet for document delivery. The motion passed 5-1.
Problems relating to Reciprocal Lending Agreement were discussed. They included:
- Whether or not we could seal transcripts (Ken)
- The Agreement has not been indorsed by our Presidents
- Need to submit Agreement to our Vice Presidents (Coy)
- Need to update Agreement citing CHE cooperating report; reason for need of this program (Larry)
To facilitate the updating of this agreement it was suggested that June Martin and Linda Umvaye – could work on it.
Document Delivery was then discussed
- need to coordinate methods of document delivery (Larry)
- need to know what types of document delivery will be used-Larry proposed that we invite Sharon Edge to report institutional Document Delivery at our next SAALCK meeting
- It was noted that we have increasing document delivery with declining budgets
- Larry reported briefly on the Faxon/GCLC work
- Ken expressed concern of utilizing KECHNET since CHE had decided that each institution must pay there own costs
AMIGOS update
Marian reported that there had been no word on funding from CHE; if there is no funding a grant is to be written, a discussion followed:
- Credibility of on the line, many hours went into preparation of plan (Larry)
- CHE has never spent any funds on libraries
- Why should CHE fund AMIGOS if not funding KECHNET?
- Noted there was no cost of collecting IPEDS stats vs. cost for tangibles?
- Mike suggested we organize a collection development group, this was thought to be a good idea.
Salary Survey
- Thanks were given to Larry for his efforts
- New Business
Automation Update
- Coy signing in April or May.
- Marian OPAC up; circulation coming up in summer – VTLS
- Ken – Mainframe up; NOTIS up in June, OPAC in fall, circulation when building complete
- Mike – database converted to OCLC over Christmas, for June acquisitions up, Cataloging then Circulation, access through other terminals on campus.
- UK waiting for NOTIS, will move Circulation from LS 2000, will be loading ERIC and MEDLINE on OPAC.
- Karen – grand opening for NOTIS, signed in April, brought up in October up for public in January.
- Larry feels strongly that if there are any OPAC sharing meetings all libraries should be involved regardless of hardware, not just NOTIS libraries; suggest Jim Nelson call meetings.
- Karen should send letter to Jim Nelson to this effect.
- It has been suggested that the state records be put on NOTIS in one of three nearby libraries to save funding.
Other Discussions
- OCLC vs. Internet – Coy reported on confusion among computer experts on access to OCLC via internet
- Budget reductions – Budget decreases were discussed.
- Faculty Status – Larry suggested sending a letter from SAALCK to U of L expressing concern regarding change of status of Librarians; problems with faculty status at Easter, and Morehead were also noted
- Discussion of which status is better
- Larry noted ACRL standard and AAUP joint document
- 76% of American Universities and Colleges have some form of faculty status
- The following motion was made:
We support faculty status for the eight institutions in Kentucky. - Motion carried with one abstention (UK to check with Paul)
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Marian C. Winner, NKU
With apologies for delay.
Documents attached - Reciprocal Lending Agreement