Collection Management Committee Meeting - June 17, 2024

Zoom / Conference Call

Members attending: Janice Derr, co-chair (Eastern Illinois University), Jeannette Glover (Spoon River College), Gwen Gregory (Northern Illinois University), Carl Lehnen (University of Illinois Chicago), Briana Love (Aurora University), Jackie Mann (Loyola University Chicago), Erin Zimmerman, co-chair (Heartland Community College)

Members absent: Jayna Leipart Guttilla, (Illinois Valley Community College), Kris Veldheer (Catholic Theological Union)

CARLI Staff attending: Elizabeth Clarage, Jen Masciadrelli, Jenny Taylor

Decisions

• The May 20, 2024 minutes were approved.

Tasks Assigned

• Minutes taken by Briana Love.

Announcements

• Member Announcements: None
• CARLI Announcements:
  • All consortial eBooks agreements are now finalized. Oxford, Wiley, and JSTOR are the eBook platforms. Access will be through until June 2025.
  • I-Share update: New libraries are going live in a little over a week. New libraries will go live for resource sharing in July. I-Share libraries Anonymization being turned on in Alma in July.
  • State database package has been announced. Will be live on our EBSCOHost admin tomorrow. Statewide databases are contracted for three years.
  • CARLI database package has been announced. Cost savings for CARLI.

Discussion

• Three new Members of the Collection Management Committee for 2024-2025.
  • Julie Murphy, Illinois State University
  • Hillary Ostermiller, Columbia College Chicago
  • Justin Sextro, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • Janice, Jayna, and Kris terms are ending.
• Weeding and Shifting Webinars
  • Webinar attendance for all three:  72 for June 7, 68 for May 31, and 78 for May 10.
  • 50% of attendance as compared to registration. This is a good percentage as it differs
  • Webinars were good for others to share similar experiences with weeding/shifting. Mostly talked about resources already available or free.
  • Librarians would like a complied list of information based on feedback from the webinars.
• Weeding Webpage
  • Updates on the webpage-flowchart- Ask speakers for external/internal documents on how they addressed weeding. Talk about the “how”.
  • Make all notes available for the new incoming group.
  • Deadline for the webpage?
• 2024-2025 Committee Chair/Co-Chairs
  • Start of July 1st, new chairs and co-chairs. Carl has volunteered to be committee Chair, Jackie and Briana have shown interest in being co-chairs.

Next Meeting Dates and Deadlines

The next committee meeting is to be determined.