§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
11:00 a.m., Friday, December 1, 2006
University of Louisville, University Club
Attendance:
Laurene Zaporozhetz (Chair), Murray State University; Arne Almquist, Northern Kentucky University; Mike Binder, Western Kentucky University; Carrie Cooper; Eastern Kentucky University; Carol Diedrichs, University of Kentucky; Elsie Pritchard, Morehead State University; Hannelore Rader, University of Louisville; Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University; Suzy Szasz Palmer, University of Louisville (Collections Committee); Susan Brown, Transylvania University (AIKCU); Anne Abate, SWON Libraries. Sheree Huber Williams, Jefferson Community and Technical College (KCTCS) joined the meeting at 12:30.
Call to Order:
Laurene Zaporozhetz called the meeting to order at 11:09 a.m.Minutes from Previous Meeting:
Carol moved to approve the minutes from the September 15th meeting. The motion was seconded by Elsie and unanimously approved. Hannelore moved to approve the minutes from the October 6th meeting. The motion was seconded by Elsie and unanimously approved.
Chair’s Report:
Laurene had nothing to report.
KY Education Network (KEN) Applications Subcommittee:
- Carol and Hannelore reported on the formation of this Subcommittee that is reporting up to the Education Cabinet. It is an eclectic group that is charged with recommending software applications for the KY Education Network throughout the Commonwealth. Carol and Hannelore are sending out a survey of applications that are used that require connectivity to the Internet. The survey will be sent by each member of the Subcommittee to their appropriate constituencies during December.
- Hannelore will provide a short summary of the Subcommittee and their work so far including the membership and the address of their website.
Executive Director’s Report:
- Anne distributed the latest SAALCK financial update.
- Anne and Laurene gave a presentiion at the KHECC Conference on October 31. Although the audience was quite small, it was well received.
- The LITA workshop on Institutional Repositories held on November 1st was a success. Twenty-two people attended.
- Anne presented a progress report from the intern who is working on the SAALCK marketing brochure.
- Anne mentioned that the Moving Mountains Institute on delivery services was extremely interesting. She will be sending out a formal report soon. At that event, she was asked to work with the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative. The next meeting of that group will be in April in Chicago.
- Anne and Glen are ready to announce the SWON Libraries / SAALCK Member Experience Database. An email announcement will go out this month. Everyone is encouraged to distribute and encourage their staffs to participate.
- The NetLibrary purchase group (NKU, WKU, EKU, Murray State) used up its initial purchase and added an additional $20,000 last month.
LUNCH
Follow-up on CCAO October Meeting:
- Laurene reported that the Council of Chief Academic Officers is pleased that SAALCK has established a subcommittee to create a vision for the next generation library system.
Follow-up on Recent CIO Meetings:
- Arne reported that the CIOs met at KHECC and had discussions regarding the release of Microsoft Vista and Internet 2.
- There was an Internet 2 day at KHECC and Arne reported that it received a lot of press coverage.
Collections Committee Report:
- Suzy reported that the Committee reviewed two large groups of products from Ebsco and Proquest. We decided not to switch from Wilson’s education product to that offered by Ebsco. Other titles are still being reviewed.
- The Wilson renewal is currently being finalized.
- The Committee is still working on the ERM questions. Changes in the ownership of some of the vendors are making the discovery a moving target.
- In the future, the Collections Committee will provide a report one week before the SAALCK meetings, but will only send a representative when necessary.
Arne mentioned that the Committee might want to explore the consortial purchase of Portico. Anne will ask Portico to extend their deadline and potentially make a presentation to SAALCK in the Spring.
Next Generation Library System Committee:
- Laurene presented an update from the Committee. Everyone agreed that the report of the Committee can be 20 pages long and it will be ready in December. Everyone is asked to review it quickly when they receive it so that it can be forwarded to CCAO before their January meeting.
- Following the submission of the report, the Committee will be asked to develop an RFI to gather more information on what is available in the marketplace. They will also be asked to develop a timeline and bring in vendors for demonstrations. Elsie and Laurene will work on the charge to the Committee. They will make sure that AIKCU and KCTCS are given representation on the Committee.
New State Librarian:
- Laurene reported that Wayne Onkst has been named State Librarian of Kentucky. Anne and Arne reinforced the value of Wayne in this position.
- SAALCK would like to host a reception for Wayne and will do it jointly with AIKCU. This may be planned for Kentucky State University on February 2nd. Anne will check with Wayne to make sure he is available on that date. Anne will work with Sheila on the details and will take care of the invitations. March 9th will be the fallback date.
Change in Leadership at AIKCU:
- As of January, the new chair of AIKCU is Jan Wren from the University of the Cumberlands.
- They will select a representative to SAALCK and may select a rotating representative.
- Susan Brown and John Stemmer will join the Collections Committee.
- Susan will speak to Jan about hosting a joint meeting between AIKCU and SAALCK on April 6th at the AIKCU headquarters in Frankfort. Anne will work out the details with Susan and Jan.
Next Meeting:
- The next meeting will be February 2nd at 11:00 a.m. in Louisville.
Future Agenda Items:
- Storage Facility
- Salary Survey Format and Options
- Last Copy in State—Book
- Last Copy in State—Print Journal
- Master List of Internship Opportunities in KY
- Dual Campus Program Database Needs
- Consortial Purchase of an Institutional Repository Product
- Future Workshops
Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 1:08 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anne K. Abate
SWON Libraries