Coordinating Committees

CUWL CRS Conference Call

Meeting minutes for 3/5/2008

Participants: Hardy, Jander, Jax, Kaye, Konrad (reporting), Pillow, Reeb, Reich, Reider, Schneider

Minutes from previous meeting were approved. Based on discussion of the minutes, Karen will follow up with the CDC regarding BioOne.

Additions to agenda: CUWL Wiki (Reeb); Chemical Abstracts Service.

Discussion Items:

Charge for UB Working Group
CRS approved the formation of this committee and its membership.  Mary Rieder will serve as chair of the working group. Richard and Mary have been discussing the initial charge in preparation for the group's first meeting.   Richard will email the charge to members, and reports that there are already a number of issues requiring the attention of the UB Working Group.  The working group is strongly encouraged to get input and feedback from a variety of stakeholders as they consider each issue.

Library Dynamics Working Group Charge
CRS discussed the charge of this working group.  Barb Hamel will serve as Madison representative - the others have already been identified and are noted in the charge.  Richard will monitor the activities of this group but will not take an active role in its work.   There is general interest in setting up additional demos of this tool after we get a reasonable amount of data into the system. The charge was already vetted with the working group's chair, Joan Robb.  CRS approved it. Richard will distribute the charge to the members.

Collection Space Planning Survey
Richard asked for comments about the plan to conduct an assessment of collection space needs across UW System libraries.   A question was raised as to whether or not each campus would contribute financially to this effort,  or will the project and facility be covered entirely by UW System.    There were also questions pertaining to a timeline for conducting the survey.  Richard reported that the survey will be distributed by the committee working on this project -- it is not yet clear how broadly the survey will be distributed.  CRS members expressed interest in hearing more information about this project in order to have a better understanding of the its context, priority, potential approaches, etc.  Karen will be discussing the various points raised with Ewa.

There was a brief discussion about the restrictive nature of SciFinder Scholars policies.

Richard noted that the DIN process continues at the CUWL Director level.  Better funding for shared collections is at the heart of the DIN for the Libraries (though we are part of a larger DIN for improving research funding overall).

Ron gave a brief update on the new document delivery project.  Mary Williamson is setting up procedures for campuses to use Science Direct.  Some technical issues are still being explored pertaining to invoicing, reporting, etc.  Wiley is moving more slowly so group might want to consider alternative to Wiley.

Summer CUWL conference -- set for June 3,4.  Details forthcoming.

CRS Wiki is now in place on the CUWL web site.  Richard will send password and registration info.  This will be the home of various documents for CRS so it is important to get registered.

The next CRS conference call will be held on April 2, 2008 at 9:00 a.m.  Details to follow.