Social Sciences Team Meeting Minutes

February 1, 2000

Present: Michael Cook, Phil Dankart, Anne Gray, Susan Greaves, Janie Harris, Sarah How, Greg Lawrence, Brenda Marston, Don Schnedeker.

Announcement

The Social Science Team meeting has been rescheduled. Instead of meeting from 10 a.m. - 1130 a.m., the meeting is now 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The meeting is still scheduled for the first Tuesday of the month.

Discussion items

1. The Team reviewed the current status of the fund structures for the Voyager LMS. In January, John Saylor and Linda provided a rough outline of what the fund structure might be. At the General Selector's meeting in late January, more details were provided, but a fully developed example is still forthcoming. Also discussed was the list of class and L3 codes. The Team asked for a firm date for the fund structure to be completed and information about how they could provide input to the process.

2. The Team also discussed the Elsevier contract and the impact of ScienceDirect on individual Team members. Several selectors indicated they had not had time to assess the contract thoroughly. There was a sense that selectors needed more information about their specific journals then what was being supplied in the composite contract.

3. A Team member asked if preparations for the annual budget had begun. The Team member was concerned that we were nearing the implementation of the Voyager LMS. If a budget review occurred earlier this year, we would need to begin preparing by March 1st.

4. Greg reviewed the current state of the NetLibrary implementation. He informed the group about the open selection period that would begin February 7. Sarah provided a review of NetLibrary activities at ALA Midwinter meeting. Apparently, NetLibrary dominated the vendor area. She also pointed our U.C. Press is making their ebooks available on the Internet free of charge.

News Items

Susan - The map library had received a large gift of 3,000 maps and photographs of North American cities. This is a unique collection assembled by John Reps, Professor Emeritus in City and Regional Planning. There are no immediate plans to catalog the collection, but the information about the materials will be entered into a searchable database. Also, she has purchased the African Data Sampler on CD. The data can be imported directly into ArcView. They have acquired a site license and plan to mount it on the Gateway.

Brenda - Notified the Team that she and Don were members of a Voyager implementation group that met on Tuesdays from 930 a.m. - 1030 a.m. She asked if the Team would push the SST meeting back to 1030 - 1200 to accommodate their conflicting committee assignments. The Team unanimously agreed to the meeting change.

Don - JGSM has purchased access to Research Bank Web which contains brokerage house reports. These are on-line in PDF format and vary from 2 -100 pages in length. JGSM has also purchased access to Moody's Manual Reports. These are financial fact books which are approximately 100 pages each. Finally, JGSM had purchased CACI Demographic CD, which would be locally mounted in the Johnson School Library Don also announced he had filed two requests with the Database Review Committee (DRC) for central funding for Dow Jones Interactive and Global Access..

Michael - Introduced himself as a new bibliographer at Mann Library and a net Team member. He briefly described changes in the Department of Agricultural Economics which is evolving into an undergraduate business department.

Sarah - Informed Team members about KnowEurope ( www.knoweurope.net ) an electronic alternative to European Access,, which is found in both Olin and Law. Sarah indicated that both resources had the same editor, and users should expect to find similar information in both resources. She also mentioned that JStore was planning to add more business journals to its collection. Finally, she circulated a recent article in ARL's newsletter which detailed publisher's journal profits.

Anne - Announced that CISER had a new director, Jon Abel, who was bringing a $ 4.5 million NSF grant and $ 300,000 from the Provost to set up a new Center for Confidential Data Analysis. Anne also mentioned that she would have a larger acquisitions budget for data purchases. A top priority would be interactive economic time series that were not currently be purchased by CUL. Also, Anne is purchasing the UN Bilateral Trade data which she considers an excellent resource. The initial purchase is expensive since it included historic back files, but maintaining the data will cost around $1,000 per year.

Phil - ILR has received 4,500 new documents describing German Labor Union activities, and expects to receive another 96 boxes of materials soon. These documents help make ILR the strongest archive of German Labor materials in the United States.

Janie - Asked selectors to review Yoram's messages which describe how to fill out DRC forms.

Next meeting March 7, 2000

Minutes prepared by Greg Lawrence

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