United States and British
History/Women’s Studies Consortia Meeting
6 June 2005 (Amended 13 December 2005)
UCLA
Minutes
Present: Sherri Barnes, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ellen
Broidy, Kay Collins, Patrick Dawson, Dan Goldstein, Phoebe Janes, Elliot Kanter,
Diana King, Pauline Manaka, Beth Sibley, Emily Stambaugh (for Sylvia Hu), Vicki
Williamson. Joan Ariel, Kati Radics (Guest)
Business
Minutes of December 2004
meeting: approved
Action items follow-up: Change “faculty” to “vendors” in the one beginning
“Ellen will draft …” Discussion followed. To summarize: not much progress on
any front
Confirmation of plans for
Sheila O’Hare to assume chair 2005-6:
confirmed
Next meeting:
Campus report questions: there were questions for Davis and UCLA re:
assignments, staffing; UCSB announced AUL for Tech Services to leave 15 July;
there was a discussion of UCR’s two-tiered bibliographer/subject specialist
system; there was no UCSC campus report
Discussion Items
CDC report: Kati Radics reported. She is LAUC rep to CDC. First she provided some background, situating
CDC in the organization, and describing its functions and responsibilities. She
noted there were two leitmotivs last year: CDL negotiations, and shared print. Among
the other issues that arose last year were: the relationship between CDC and
JSC (now, JSC must go through CDC to get to CDL); the appointment of Shirley
Leung to coordinate East Asian digital shared products; the Scholarly
Communications Summit, which brought together ULs, CDC and Scholarly
Communications Officers, and which came up with overriding principles within
which CDC should operate. The ULs asked CDC to list possible ways to reduce
expenditures, and to consider how to channel what funds there were and will be
to new models. Discussion followed: Ellen asked whether Dan’s MUSE letter was
discussed by CDC. It had not. Joan asked whether there had been any discussion
of CDC’s providing guidance to/formalization of bibliographer groups. There had
been, within the context of the discussion concerning the relationship of CDC
and JSC. Pauline asked about conflict between CDC’s interests and the interests
of the Scholarly Communications Officers (CDC “wants to buy buy buy” while
Scholarly Communications Officers see that as “unviable”). Unfocused discussion
followed.
Euro Bibs: The CDC discussion segued to this topic, though it
was not next on the agenda. The most pressing concerned seemed to be the
relationship between this group and the Euro Bibs group. The consensus was that
we will not give up our British History focus. Dan offered to serve as liaison
between that group and this.
MOTION: Dan moved for this
group to establish a liaison with Euro Bibs, with him as first liaison. MOTION
PASSED.
Office of Shared Print: Joan Ariel reported. The OCLC Collection Analysis
tool was demonstrated. Joan announced that shared resources will be purchased,
processed, etc. with current resources, differently distributed. Every item
purchased for a shared print collection can be counted by each campus, according to Nancy Kushigian. CDC may have to approve
Shared Print initiatives. The discussion kept reverting to journal packages,
e.g. MUSE, Sage, Blackwell, where print was being cancelled wholesale. This led
to a discussion of the group’s last copy projects. The question arose: could
“last copy” be part of “shared print”? Joan distributed a handout that
described various models. The consensus arose to support model 1, modified with
an interest in moving towards model 3, where a secondary copy exists. [JBR
NOTE: I assume that all handout distributed at meeting
will be attached to minutes, or otherwise preserved as part of the record of
the meeting]. Campuses will determine which last copy titles can be sent to
RLFs, which cannot. Interest was expressed in getting MUSE onto the CDC agenda.
Feminist Press Project: Beth Sibley reported. She recapitulated the history
of the project. Then she described a May 2005 visit to Volcano Press in the
Sierra foothills. The state of the Volcano archives was described (approx. 36
boxes in the blacksmith’s shack out back, approx. 60 boxes in a warehouse down
the road). The owner, now 82, wants someone to come for a week and go through
the archive with her, making a video and oral history. Beth went on to discuss
the effect of the 2-year closing of the Bancroft: a lot of work on other
presses has been put on hold. Negotiations between Third Woman Press and the
Bancroft came to an impasse. Beth is to meet with the Bancroft and the owners
of Aunt Lute. The owner wants to be financially compensated for the collection,
which needs to be valued. The major issues confronting the Feminist Press
Project are at present: it’s an unfunded mandate, i.e. there are no funds for
acquisition of archives unless the Bancroft or some other institution is
interested. Therefore the future of the project is problematic. Beth notes that
while oral histories were not considered in the original project, they would be
invaluable. Beth asked for someone to take over responsibility for the project;
Diana agreed to succeed her. Joan wondered whether the project could be
considered under the “shared print” rubric, and also wondered whether the
project could be considered “print tier 2.”
Recorded by John
Bloomberg-Rissman