§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 27, 2005
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Attendance:
Arne Almquist (Chair), Northern Kentucky University; Clara Potter, Morehead State University; Mike Binder, Western Kentucky University; Carol Diedrichs, University of Kentucky; Karen McDaniel, Kentucky State University; Hannelore Rader, University of Louisville; Suzy Palmer, University of Louisville; Lee Van Orsdel, Eastern Kentucky University; Laurene Zaporozhetz, Murray State University; and Anne Abate, GCLC.
Call to Order:
Arne Almquist called the meeting to order at 11:17 a.m.
Minutes from Previous Meetings:
Laurene moved to approve the minutes from the March meeting. The motion was seconded by Hannelore and unanimously approved.
Elsevier Update:
- Elsevier wants to put together a proposal and quote on their SCOPUS product. Arne has referred them to Carol and Suzy to discuss next year.
ProQuest Safari Books:
- Anne reported that the consortial price for the product would be $26,820. We don’t know how many simultaneous users are included. Anne will ask for the contract and forward it to all for review.
Wilson Update:
- Anne distributed the invoices for Wilson. She asked that everyone process their invoice as quickly as possible so that the office can pay the overall invoice on time.
ProQuest MLA Product:
- Anne reported that the consortial price for the product would be $44,710 for the eight institutions. Lee suggested that we divide up the amount by FTE and distribute the figures for review. Anne will prepare these and email them.
Wiley Update:
- The contract is complete and everyone should be receiving their individual contracts and bills directly from Wiley soon.
OCLC Copyright Workshop Wrap Up:
- The Workshop was a success. Anne distributed a summary of the evaluations. Anne also distributed a partial financial summary. We are still waiting for the bills from OCLC, but SAALCK was able to cover all expenses from the event.
Lunch Break
Academic Library Staff Certification Program:
- Arne has been working with Lexington Community College about building a library staff certification program. They are doing this by adjusting some of the courses in the existing program for public library certification in order to make it more appropriate for academic library staff. They hope this will serve as a model for other programs. The courses will be available to any Kentucky staff members and the program will be completely online.
KHECC/CliK/SAALCK Conference Planning:
- The conference will be much larger this year. They are planning for 500-600 attendees.
- Arne does not have time to serve on the Planning Committee this year and is asking for volunteers to represent SAALCK on the Planning Committee. The group suggested that Arne ask Glen Horton if he would be willing to represent SAALCK on this committee.
Ebrary:
- Anne distributed information on this product which had been provided by the publisher. They are open to consortial pricing. Anne will put together the pricing and arrange for a trial for anyone who is interested.
GCLC:
- Anne provided an update on the accounts.
Planning for Next Year:
- Carol asked for nominations for the vice chair/chair elect. Laurene was nominated and voted in by unanimous consent.
- Carol asked the group what they want to accomplish in the next year.
- We intend to form a Collections Committee which will initially include representatives from UofL (Suzy Palmer), UK (Mary Beth Thomson), EKU, Morehead, and perhaps KCTCS. All SAALCK institutions will have a representative on a discussion list. A charge to the Committee will be written by Carol for approval by the group and the entire group will meet with the Directors in July (July meeting has been rescheduled to July 27th).
- Presentation on statewide approval plan will be organized by Laurene for the September 9th meeting in Cincinnati. Anne will contact Kathy Rylander from AICKU to see if she wants to attend the presentation. Laurene will contact Julie Gammon about making the presentation.
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations will be put on the agenda for November or December. Everyone should think about how this should be approached. Anne will approach OCLC about a workshop on institutional repositories.
- Storage and last copy/cooperative collection development will be put on the agenda in the spring.
- Resources for Paralegal, Nursing and Public Health will be referred to the Collections Committee.
- Consider a meeting with the UK Library School in April. Carol will contact the school.
- A discussion about RFID will be added to the upcoming agenda items.
ARL Workshop Update:
- Carol expects to have an answer from ARL about the future workshop in late May.
Products to be Proposed for Consortial Purchase:
- OCLC Resources—Suzy was contacted by them about the First Search databases. Everyone is moving away from this platform so there is no interest right now.
- Gale/Thomson—Anne asked for the results from the trial this month. No interest from the group.
- GeoScience World—Anne asked for the interest from the group on a consortial deal. Anne will try to get a trial for the group.
- Mergent—Several institutions are doing this on their own. We are not doing a consortial deal at this time.
- Nursing Database—No update this month.
Announcements:
- Clara reported that the selection process for the new Dean at Morehead State is nearing completion.
- Hannelore reported that the UofL libraries just purchased a rare first edition of Moby Dick.
- Hannelore just returned from a UNESCO meeting in Paris. It was a thematic meeting on information literacy particularly in the developing countries.
- Karen McDaniel reported that she will be serving as co-editor for the forthcoming UK Press publication, the Kentucky African American Encyclopedia (2010). The other editors are John Hardin from Western Kentucky University and Gerald Smith from University of Kentucky.
Next Meeting:
The next meeting date is June 3rd 11:00 a.m. at the University of Louisville.Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted, Anne K. Abate Executive Director