Minutes,
UC/Stanford US History/Womens Studies Consortium
UCLA, December 9, 1996
Members Present: Joan Ariel, Ellen Broidy, Phoebe James, Elliot Kanter, Jane Kimball,
Nancy Koller, Nancy Kushigian, Neria Llamas, Jaquelyn Marie, Cynthia Shelton, Elizabeth
Sibley, David Tambo
From USC: Ruth Wallach
1. Introductions and Announcements: Our new member, Neria Llamas from UCSB, was introduced
and welcomed.
2. Agenda: A discussion of serials cancellations at various campuses was
added to the agenda.
3. Minutes: Minutes from our Spring 1996 meeting were approved.
4. Annual Report: The 1995-1996 Annual Report, submitted by Ellen Broidy,
was approved.
5. Report from CDC: Cynthia Shelton discussed the UC Digital Library
Report, which, among other things has a goal the raising of funds for
digital initiatives.
CDC has been discussing ongoing negotiations with Sci Tech Med
Publishers for consortial arrangements. They are also discussing
consortial Books in Print. UCB will be cancelling all copies except one.
BIP will have 10 ports initially.
Project MUSE will continue at a cost of about $1,750 per campus.
CDC also discussed the effectiveness of consortial groups. It was our
sense that these groups could be very effective at best, and we discussed
the impact on our individual campuses of the USHist/WS consortia, agreeing
that in this time of serials cuts and expanding digital initiatives it was
especially important that we work cooperatively within subject areas.
6. Ongoing Projects:
SCAP--Irvine will be getting more of the John Peabody Harrington Papers,
10 reels--a photo archive. Nancy Koller is getting permission to
photocopy the guide.
JOURNALS PROJECT: Joan Ariel distributed update of WS journals, and will
updatethe master list. Davis, Riverside, UCSC and SD have "last title" status
in system. The "equitable distribution" issue was discussed. This issue
may arise if campuses need to cancel titles. In that case, the
representative from the cancelling campus will contact another campus that
has the title to ask them if they will take it over as a "last title"
(and Joan will be notified).
ACTION: All campuses will review their lists and mail her information
about additions and deletions.
STANFORD Rep: Elliot will contact Stanford about the status of their ws
rep.
7. Serials Cancellations:
Several campuses will be cancelling serials this year: UCI, UCB, UCD, and
UCR (?). UCLA is having a "cancellation retreat." Most campuses are
involving faculty in decisions and collecting usage data.
ACTION: Consortia members should put up lists of proposed cuts on the
reflector.
8. Consortia Home Page: Elliot Kanter reported . . . the group decided to
put the Journals project lists up on the page.
9. Womens Studies Primary Collecting Areas:
ACTION: By Jan 15, campuses will send a list of their primary collecting
areas to Nancy Kushigian. Defining these areas involves no committment to
continue these priorities, but will simply serve as a guide to current
strengths. When she receives these lists, Nancy will compile them into
one list and distribute on the reflector.
10. Feminist Presses Project: Beth Sibley is still working with Bancroft; Bancroft has
agreed, in principle, to buy what these small presses publish. Beth will work toward
establishing a written agreement with Bancroft about this.
David Tambo suggested that the issue be raised as a consortial
responsibility at the Special Collections Consortia. He volunteered to
bring the issue to that group.
LUNCH:
UC/Stanford U.S. History/Womens Studies Consortia
Minutes of the Afternoon Meeting
9 December 1996
Womens Studies CD-ROMs: A variety of CD-ROM sources in womens studies are currently being
marketed. Discussion centered around the strengths/weaknesses of several of these products
and whether or not we wish to negotiate System-wide access to some if any of them. Since
some campuses buy CD-ROMs on Reference funds, the decision to purchase or not was not
within the purview of all Consortium members. Campuses which have acquired or are
interested in acquiring various products are as follows:
Womens Studies on Disk [G. K. Hall]: Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Barbara,
Santa Cruz, University of Southern California
Women Resources International [Women Studies Abstracts; WRI]: Berkeley.
Other campuses agreed to obtain a trial disk and to send their impressions
to other Consortium members via uswm. If reaction is positive, the
Consortium may consider prosposing that it be mounted on the MELVYL online
catalog.
Women R: Members of the Consortium did not rate acquisition of this
database as highly as some of the others.
Contemporary Womens Issues [CWI]: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Riverside,
Santa Cruz and the University of Southern California expressed interest in
this product. It was felt that the coverage was broader and more
international than the above product and that full-text coverage would
allow access to material such as organizational newsletters that is not
now being collected.
ACTION: The Consortium then discussed strategies, and it was agreed that
N. Kushigian and B. Sibley would contact the publisher of CWI to see if a
multi-campus discount could be negotiated. Meanwhile, members who have
not used WRI will obtain trial disks. If reaction is favorable, the
Consortium may propose that it be mounted on MELVYL.
Records of Southern Ante-Bellum Plantations: Irvine will cancel its
standing order to this set because of cost, the fact that it appears to
be a set that will continue to be published indefinitely, and the fact
that the focus of Irvines program in Southern history has changed.
Stanford is evidently continuing to receive the set.
ACTION: Irvine will check to ensure that its holdings appear in the
MELVYL record for the set.
[It was pointed out that at least some campuses have not received all the
guides to the NAACP papers. ]
ACTION: B. Sibley will check with the publisher to be sure that all
available guides have been obtained.
SCAP Proposals: Although it is not certain that SCAP monies will be
available this year, the Consortia decided that the third segment of the
Margaret Sanger papers would be an appropriate proposal for purchase.
Stanford holds the first segment [the Library of Congress collection], and
the Consortia obtained the second segment [the Smith College collection]
on mini-SCAP last year.
Other possibilities are: New England Women and Their Families $4995
[available February1997] and HARPWEEK [a full-text edition of Harpers
Weekly on CD-ROM which covers the Civil War period] $15,000.
As a possibility for a cooperative non-SCAP purchase the CD-ROM version of The Nineteenth
Century Short Title Catalogue $13,500 was mentioned. [Post-meeting note: C. Shelton
reported that UCLA has purchased this with the help of the Friends of the UCLA Library.
As a footnote to this discussion: B. Sibley reported that Berkeley has
purchased the following microform sets: Women and Victorian Values, Womens
Language and Experience, White Slavery, and the White European and second
segment of the Asian Immigration sets. Stanford has purchased the
Morgenthau Diaries.
ACTION: Consortia members should use the reflector to communicate with
their colleagues if other sets that are potential candidates for SCAP or
other cooperative purchase come up.
Consortial Health and Well-Being: The group discussed ways of continuing
to present itself to CDC and other University bodies as an effective body
for cooperative collection development.
Video-Conferencing as an Alternative to Meeting: B. Sibley described her
positive experience with video-conferencing. The group agreed to
experiment with it for its Winter 1997 meeting. The group also agreed
that a two-day meeting was necessary at least once a year; travel
logistics and lack of time to devote to the agenda were cited as reasons.
Info-Mine: J. Marie reported on her positive experience using Info-Mine
for Womens Studies. The opinions of other members varied as to the value
of Info-Mine. The group agreed that information on Womens Studies
resources would more appropriately added to the Consortias Web page.
Spring 1997 Meeting: The tentative location is Davis. Date will be set
later.