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Present: A. Bahr (SU), J. Bush (ITD) B. Day (ITD), C. Coleman (BSU), D. Gillespie (FSU), B. Gontrum (UMLL, Chair), B. Gresehover (UMB/HSHSL), K. Heil (CES), S. LaBash (UB), Y. Lev (TU), C. Lowry (UMCP), L. Messman-Mandicott (FSU), R. Moskal (UMBC), G. Orr (UMUC), J. Phillips (ITD), C. Rabinowitz (SMCM, Vice-Chair), C. Ruschoff (UMCP), T. Shields (UMES), M.J. Tooey (HSHSL), W. Tress (UBLL), C. Vaeth (UB), T. Wilson (ITD), L. Wilt (UMBC), T. Wray (UMCP), L. Wrubel (ITD, recording).
Announcements: Barbara Gontrum thanked those involved in the NAAUG and SMUG meetings, which were great publicity for USMAI. The July 21 CLD meeting will be in College Park at the Rossborough Inn, with its own parking, followed by a luncheon for Victor Korenman. Gontrum distributed a sign-up sheet for the luncheon. Those who weren't at the meeting should contact Loretta Carstens if they plan to attend.
Minutes of the April 21 CLD meeting were approved by acclamation.
Carlen Ruschoff distributed the report from the Authorities Task Group and summarized the group's evaluation and recommendations, which include outsourcing authorities clean-up and maintenance. (See the final report and related documents at http://usmai.umd.edu/authorities/)
Ruschoff will work with Tom Wilson and Jean Phillips on contractual issues. The Authorities Task Group recommends expanding the current task group to create specifications and an implementation schedule. Gontrum will send email requesting names for additional slots on the Task Group.
One of the first tasks for the Authorities Task Group will be to work on a timeline with ITD. There was a discussion of the impact on the timeline of a possible upgrade to Aleph Version 17. ITD should report back in a few months on this topic.
CLD passed a motion that the recommendations of the report be approved.
Lea Messman-Mandicott presented a condensed version of the presentation she, Jean Phillips, and Jamie Bush gave at NAAUG in early June.
Resource Sharing Task Group members Beverly Gresehover, Carol Vaeth, Robin Moskal, Tanner Wray, Jean Phillips, and Jamie Bush presented their draft recommendations on future directions for consortial ILL and document delivery. These include ILLiad for all consortia members. The group is also working on formal circulation and ILL agreement among consortia members.
After discussions with other consortia, the group came to the conclusion that the current ALEPH ILL functionality is not usable for USMAI. URSA is used within the state public library system. The group does not recommend using it at this time for consortia ILL functions.
Tanner Wray gave a demo of the patron interface to ILLiad (see handout for summary) and Robin Moskal demonstrated the staff side of ILLiad. Jean Phillips explained required ITD/USMAI support for a consortial platform (see handout for description and known costs).
CLD passed a motion that CLD fund ILLiad for the eight campuses which do not currently have it. The approximate costs are $15,750 for the 8 sites in the first year and $17,300 for the second year, plus server costs to be determined. The Resource Sharing Task Group will finalize hardware and software needs, confirm pricing, negotiate a training package, communicate their findings to the Community of Interest, and proceed with the ILLiad consortial purchase and shared platform implementation. Implementation timing and priority for this project must be worked out in relation to ITD workload. The Task Group will provide CLD with updates on their progress. At a future date, CLD will consider the question of whether funding could be provided to campuses that have already committed to ILLiad.
Jean Phillips reviewed the ITD status report available at: http://usmai.umd.edu/statusrep/061605.html
Betty Day has requested site licensing pricing for The Chronicle of Higher Education and is negotiating a consortial discount. Letters to campuses from Monica West will go out July 1. Campuses will received additional letters for charges not covered by the original letter.
Three members need to be elected. Send nominations to Gontrum. Elections will be held at the July CLD meeting in College Park.
Lowry: Planning for Victor Korenman's party is underway. Lowry would like to know contact information for retired colleagues of Korenman's who should be invited. Contact Loretta Carstens with this information.
Lowry has contacted Jay Jordan about speaking in Sept or October on OCLC WorldCat, and Google Scholar.
Wilt and others attended a meeting at JHU on creating a shared print depository of journals content, such as journals in JSTOR.
Celia Rabinowitz thanked Gontrum and Wilt for attending meeting with her senior administrators to discuss the USMAI 5-year budget.
Wilson: Wilson, Phillips, and Day are reviewing campus priority lists and plan to have a synthesized list to share at July CLD meeting. They are also drafting a plan for a campus contacts meeting in September and will seek approval of the priorities list at the CLD October meeting. Among those occurring frequently are report writing, EDI, patron loading, patron privacy. Some tasks will be referred to task groups.
Tooey: The International Academy of Nursing Editors is encouraging ISI to increase citations from nursing research journals in their citation indexes. The Medical Library Association asked campuses to support NIH's PubChem if appropriate. There has been lower deposition of articles than expected in NIH's PubMedCentral. Tooey was inaugurated as president of MLA.
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