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Present: B. Day (ITD), B. Gontrum (Chair, UMLL), K. Kelley (UMUC), C. Lowry (UMCP), L. Messman (FSU), J. Phillips (ITD), C. Rabinowitz (Vice-Chair, SMCM), C. Ruschoff (UM), T. Shields (UMES), T. Wilson (ITD), L. Wilt (UMBC), L. Wrubel (recording, ITD)
Minutes of the March 17 meeting were approved by acclamation.
As announced earlier, the Presidents approved the next USMAI 5-year budget. The next step is to work with affiliated institutions. Gontrum and Wilt will be visiting SMCM. A visit to Morgan is not yet scheduled. The president of CES has requested a visit. The budget committee is planning a presentation for the Educational Policy Committee of the Board of Regents in the fall. Gontrum, Lowry, and Wilt will work on draft presentation and show to CLD at June meeting. They will also do a demo of RP and online resources for the BOR.
Phillips and Day reviewed status report (see online at http://usmai.umd.edu/statusrep/051805.html).
The Berkeley Electronic Press package of e-journals had been prepaid by CLD for three years. The subscription has now expired. CLD Exec agreed to pay for one additional year of the package (which now includes more content), as recommended by USMERC.
Day had proposed to the CIOs that USM fund a subscription to the Safari collection of technical books. The CIOs had questions about the utility of these books to faculty and students. USMERC reps have been asked to provide feedback to their directors so that directors can convey this information to their CIOs. CLD Exec asked USMERC to do work on evaluating e-book usage and utility to date.
Campuses have been asked to submit their USMAI priorities by May 31. ITD will then synthesize the priority lists. At the June CLD meeting, ITD will give a preliminary overview of the priority lists. ITD will be clarifying priorities with campuses as necessary. At the July 21 CLD meeting, Rabinowitz, Gontrum, and Wilson will lead a discussion of the draft development plan. CLD Exec will plan a campus contacts meeting for late summer/early fall to discuss the draft plan. The development plan will be presented for approval to CLD at its September meeting.
CLD Exec briefly discussed Google Scholar. Day, Phillips, and Wrubel will brief CLD on issues of Google Scholar integration with library resources at the June CLD meeting.
Ruschoff brought the Authorities Task Group's draft report to learn if it has the kind of information CLD needs. CLD suggested that ITD investigate LTI's status as sole-source and add that information to the report. Ruschoff will work with ITD to flesh out the section on an implementation schedule. The task group will make its final report at the June 16 CLD meeting. Ruschoff will share the draft report with COI's.
See white paper distributed by Day by email on 5/10/05. Paper is posted on CLD website at: http://usmai.umd.edu/cld/ERM/Whitepaper.doc. Day reviewed the whitepaper. ITD is proposing that a 6-month task force examine workflow and other issues and to evaluate the products on the market. Day will send task group charge to Transition Team with proposed membership.
Phillips shared the draft USMAI Vision Statement for Resource Sharing, written by the Resource Sharing Task Group. CLD Exec suggested adding wording to the vision that takes into account individual campus mission and policies. The group was also asked to study the relationship between SFX and ILL usage and suggest policies and procedures needed to address increase in activity and cost-impact, particularly in the case of ILLiad and OCLC charges. They were also asked to provide descriptions of products and components, such as ILLiad, Odyssey, and Ursa. The task group will bring the revised statement to June CLD meeting for approval.
Transition Team will respond to questions brought up at the campus contacts meeting and post that information to the COI's. Among the issues raised were communication of draft minutes and next meeting dates for task groups, creation and orientation for new task groups, and moderators for COI's with guidelines on their role and responsibilities.
CLD moved, that for the six months beginning in June, the Transition Team will be integrated with CLD Exec, with both groups meeting together after each CLD meeting. Among the group's tasks for the year is to address issues raised in campus contacts meeting and the Transition Team's final report. At the June CLD meeting, the Transition Team will lead a discussion of issues raised in the Campus Contacts meeting.
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