Collection Management Committee Meeting: April 27, 2018

CONFERENCE CALL/ADOBE CONNECT

Members Attending: Deb Blecic, co-chair (University of Illinois at Chicago), Daniel Blewett (College of DuPage), Chad Buckley (Illinois State University), Theresa Embrey (Pritzker Military Museum & Library); Gretchen Schneider (Oakton Community College), Niamh McGuigan (Loyola University Chicago), Kimberly Shotick (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Members Absent: Connie James-Jenkin (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy), Michelle Oh (Northeastern Illinois University)

CARLI Staff Attending: Elizabeth Clarage

CARLI Staff Absent: Jen Masciadrelli

Announcements

• CARLI Update:
• Members interested in attending the ACRL Scholarly Communications event should inform Elizabeth ASAP.
• Member announcements:
• Loyola will be posting 3 librarian positions in the coming weeks focused on: assessment, metadata, and TBD.
• UIC is hiring an assessment librarian.

Discussion

• Project Updates:
  • Education: some titles have been purchased, but few have been cataloged.
  • Open Access eBooks:
    • Will be available local like Hathi Trust
    • The scope of the current project is just for eBooks. It could be expanded in the future.
    • Policy and procedures were discussed.
    • Preamble or introductory paragraph will be added to support future expansion and/or alterations
• One-time purchase project was not a success. There was little participation.
• There were 77 eBooks ordered for the eBook purchase project.
• Annual Project: the group collaborated on the “deliverable” for the annual project, due May 31. Individual sections were assigned for members to work on with a deadline of May 11.The Google Doc was reworked and is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j51Y_3piiBlh31d12oMAyAzmmq2sJXshRm_m5IXAuSs/edit?usp=sharing

Tasks Assigned

• Kimberly Shotick took minutes.
• Michelle Oh will take minutes at the next meeting.
• By May 11, members will draft their assigned sections of the annual project.

Decisions

• The minutes from the March meeting were approved with corrections.
• Preamble or introductory paragraph will be added to the Open Access eBooks document to allow for future expansion and/or alterations.
• One-Time Purchase project was not successful and will not continue next year.
• Education project will focus on outreach to expand resource usage in the coming year.

Next Meeting

The meetings will be a Conference Call meeting with Adobe Connect
Adobe Connect Meeting, URL to join:
http://webjunctionillinois.adobeconnect.com/collectionmanagement/
(217) 332-6338, (312) 994-8410, (888) 983-3631
Conference ID: 65857927

Tuesday, May 22, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Friday, June 8, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.