Coordinating Committees

Progress Report, January 23, 2008

Extracted from CUWL’s updated strategic plan are several action items identifying progress areas during the past three months:

Work is proceeding on determining the cost of extending access systemwide for major STM publishers’ journals and selective core resources in several disciplines currently licensed for the Madison campus. These figures will be the basis for estimating the larger, comprehensive cost that will be incorporated into the DIN budget request.
Developed recommendations on how special funding allocated to the comprehensive campuses for commercial document delivery in support of faculty research needs should be distributed and which document services should be used.
Conducted a “quick bid” for selecting commercial software that will enable UW libraries to evaluate their collections individually as well as consortially with respect to the strengths, weaknesses, usage levels and overlap of holdings. The contract was awarded to Library Dynamics. Training in the use of the Library Dynamics software will begin during the first quarter of 2008 as soon as the UW files have been loaded. This committee will coordinate that training effort.
Prepared a report on the July-December 2007 monograph expenditures showing the distribution of each campus book purchases with particular attention paid to the level of expenditures with Blackwell Book Services.

Submitted by Richard Reeb, CRSCC chair