Collection Management Committee Meeting: September 26, 2016

Conference Call / Adobe Connect

Members attending: Jeffry Archer (University of Chicago), Deborah Blecic (University of Illinois at Chicago), Chris Diaz, co-chair (National-Louis University), Connie James-Jenkin (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy), Niamh McGuigan (Loyola University Chicago), Stephen McMinn (University of Illinois at Springfield), Gretchen Schneider (Oakton Community College), Kimberly Shotick, co-chair (Northeastern Illinois University)

Members absent: Amelia Brunskill (DePaul University)

Staff attending: Elizabeth Clarage, Jen Masciadrelli

Announcements

• CARLI Update – The committee has two new members, Stephen McMinn and Gretchen Schneider.

Discussions

• Scholarly Communication Website (Jeffry & Kimberly) – The committee reviewed the suggested edits to the draft changes.
• Member announcements: what’s going on in your library?  Many members shared that lots of instructions taking place.  3 positions are approved for NEIU.  Interim Dean assigned for Oakton Community College. UIS is starting the ground work for their first comprehensive weeding project.
• Collaborative Collection Development Pilot projects:
  • Education (Chris and Amelia):
    • They reached out to 8 people, 4 responded to the doodle poll, 1 bowed out of the project, and 1 person has since left their library
    • The group is meeting via Adobe Connect on Wednesday, October 12 from 3 to 4 pm.
  • Health Sciences/Nursing (Deb and Stephen): Kristina left the committee and was leading the project. Stephen will help with this subject area.
  • Literature (Niamh): Niamh will schedule a meeting for October or November.
  • One-time Purchases (Kimberly and Deb):
    • Two individuals responded
  • Notes:
    • From an earlier in-person forum, we learned from YBP that all book buying is on a downward curve.It may follow that lending/ borrowing is likely on the decline due to increase in local eBook purchases.
  • First meetings – what to discuss? How can we encourage participation?
    • Starting point – time frame, commitments
    • Time, money, both, just want to lurk?
• CARLI Annual Meeting – CMC Presentation – Chris discussed the upcoming conference call for the presenters.  CMC has been assigned to do a presentation.  Jeffry and Deb will be making the presentation.  There will need to be a one page handout for the meeting.

Decisions

• Minutes of the August 29, 2016 meeting were approved.

Tasks Assigned

• Elizabeth will establish a webspace for collaborative collection projects.
• Kristina and Jeffry will forward their edits to the CARLI Scholarly Communications webpage to Jen and Elizabeth.
• Jeffry and Deb will be present at the CARLI Annual Meeting on November 19th reporting on last year’s project.
• Gretchen will review literature on collaborative projects to share with the committee in advance of the planned meetings.
• Deb will create a one page summary of the options with ebooks for collaboration.Elizabeth and Jen will review.

Meeting Dates and Deadlines

• Loyola or UIC will be hosting an in-person meeting on Monday, October 17th: 9am – noon.
• We will hear from them about venue availability.