Present: P. Janes, co-chair (UCB), B. Sibley, recorder (UCB), D. Goldstein
(UCD),N. Kushigian (UCD), J. Ariel, co-chair (UCI), E. Broidy (UCLA), S.
Barnes (UCSB), S.Edgerton (UCSB), E. Kanter (UCSD), V. Williamson (UCSD).

1. Welcome and introductions: Phoebe called the meeting to order and
welcomed members.

2. Approval of June 2000 minutes: Approved with some minor changes by Joan
and will be posted to the consortia website.

3. Campus reports: Joan gave the UCI report. Three recent separate AUL
searches were unsuccessful and the positions will be reopened early next
year. There is massive faculty hiring.
She also wanted to know if members could order new serials at anytime of
the year. UCI seems to be the only campus where serials can be ordered
only once a year.

4. CDC/JSC reports: Alan Ritch, Berkeley CDO, substituting for our CDC
liaison, Cindy Shelton, gave an overview of state wide initiatives. He
stated that CDL was shifting its attention from acquiring more
commercially available resources to support of new innovative initiatives.
He concurred with our decision not to acquire the Gerritsen Collection at
this time due to B&H's excessive maintenance fees. In contrast, he was
very supportive of the Alexander St. Press products stating that they had
quality content, a superior interface with detailed metadata and that
there is a possibility of CDL collaboration with the vendor on future
digital projects. CDL will be funding the full cost (except for low annual
maintenance fee) of their first collection: North American Women's Letters
and Diaries, Colonial Period to 1950. As a rule of thumb, he mentioned
that unless CDL is willing to heavily subsidize the costs of a digital
resource being considered for licensing according to the proportional
shares model, there has to be at least a 40 per cent discount off the
regular price for the big campuses to benefit. Licensing resources for
campuses is always a challenge due to the diversity of each campus in
terms of size, programs, budget, etc.

He updated us briefly about other CDL projects and activities including
the search for a new Director (Bev French will serve as Acting Director),
Melvyl replacement (what will we do with the A&I databases), ebooks
(suggested we look at the Ebrary model which charges only for
downloading/printing), and the preservation advisory group. Besides his
participation in JSC and CDC he is also a member of the California
Humanities Commission which is composed of senior faculty in the
humanities (he will forward to consortia list the names of all the
members). This group was established to ensure that the humanities are
fairly subsidized in future state higher education budgets; in particular,
he is advocating additional funds for digital resources and a sustained
balance in the acquisition of print and digital materials.

After he finished his report members raised several issues. Joan asked
about the relationship of Stanford to UC consortia. Our consortia has not
had any contact with Stanford since the previous US/British history
curator left and Stanford has been removed from the name of our consortia
as well as from our endangered journal agreements. However, a new history
curator at Stanford has been appointed and was invited to this meeting but
did not attend. Alan stated that even though Stanford is no longer
represented on CDC it would be useful to have a person from Stanford serve
as a liaison to our group to facilitate communication. When asked about
the role of CDC liaison, Alan stated that CDC members who are liaisons do
not consider attendance at consortium meetings as obligatory but rather as
optional. CDC liaisons have found it more efficient and cost effective to
have the CDO at the host campus give a report on CDC, JSC or other
collection development issues to consortium members. He mentioned that as
Berkeley is often the host campus he has attended the meetings of several
different consortia. Members listed some of the reasons they value having
a CDC liaison: for communication of information, advocacy, and
strategizing. Alan discussed the composition and role of CDC vs. JSC. The
latter is supposed to include 2 bibliographers but as Cindy Shelton is now
a CDO there is only one, Lucia Snowhill. Joan suggested that another
bibliographer be added.

Alan also reported that Books in Print and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
will be available on the web beginning 1/1/01. CDL received a $600,000
grant for a California Cultures digitization project which will be
coordinated by OAC and involve UC faculty. If anyone is interested in this
project contact Alan or Cindy. It will have pictorial information and
links to existing files.

A question was asked about the role of educational services of CDL. Some
members felt that CDL was not providing adequate instructional support for
teaching the multitude of digital resources now available through CDL.

5. Tier 2 Projects: Three handouts were distributed; a) Tiered approach
for access to purchased electronic content; b) 2000 UC selectors survey
responses (abridged for humanities databases); chart of reporting
/communication lines among ULs, CDC, CDL, JSC, and bibliographer groups.
Ellen agreed to forward usage stats for Harpweek and ABC-Clio to the
consortia list.

6. Date/Place for Next Meeting: It was decided that the group will meet
Thurs. and Fri., June 28-29, 2001 at UCLA.

7. New Chair(s): Members expressed their preference for the model of 2
co-chairs for 2 year terms. However, only one person volunteered for the
position: Dan Goldstein. He will serve a one year term beginning after the
Spring 2001 meeting.

8. Funding Sources for Consortia Travel: Phoebe asked members if there
were any problems in getting full administrative funding for attendance at
consortia meetings. None were reported.

9. Softline Demo: Arta Zygielbaum, Softline rep, gave a one hour demo and
update session on Ethnic Newswatch and Genderwatch. Several handouts were
distributed. She said there was only a small overlap betwen the two
products. There is still no email feature but it's planned for the future
as is an integrated web page where a user could click on either resource.
Part of the historical backfile for ENW (from 1960 to 1990) will be
released in early 2001. Only the backfile of current titles will be
included. Genderwatch was started in 1995/96 as Women "R" and in 1998
merged with Softline's Gay/Lesbian database to form GW. It includes
publications (about 170 are serials) dating back to the 1970s including
scholarly/popular periodicals, conference proceedings, newspapers,
monographs, pamphlets, and government and NGO reports. In contrast to
CWI, it provides the full text of all periodical issues (except for
Haworth titles where only 10 per cent of full text is provided). She said
they are working on a subject list for GW so users can be more precise in
their searching. There is no quick reference guide for the database.
Melvyl PE file includes an alpha title list of all the serial
publications available on both GW and ENW.

She reported that there are 20 simultaneous users per database allowed per
campus [later corrected to 20 users per database for all campuses]. For
training sessions librarians can contact Ken Hoch at Softline at
800-524-7922 or hoch@slinfo.com to obtain passwords for a class demo.

Vicki as CDL liaison for GW distributed usage stats for each campus.

10. Microform lists: Sherri distributed a revised Women's Studies
Microform Collections UC union list and a desiderata list and asked if
there were any updates since the Spring meeting.

11. California Feminist Presses Project: Beth distributed an updated list
of the presses (new press added: Many Names Press from Capitola) and a
description of the project with an outline of the duties and
responsibilities of project coordinator and consortia members
participating in the project. Jacquelyn Marie recently completed the
revision and before the latest version is mounted on the consortial
website, Beth asked if any changes/clarifications needed to be made. She
also raised the issue of the costs of acquiring press archives. Several
northern presses have requested money for their archives and as the
project is not funded Bancroft has been faced with sizable payments for
these materials. This is in addition to the costs of processing/cataloging
the items. This funding problem needs to be addressed. Joan suggested that
if we can't acquire the archives of all the presses that we might want to
prioritize the list. This discussion will be continued in the Spring.

12. The meeting was adjourned at 3:40pm.