UC/Stanford Music Librarians

Boston, February 12, 1998

Minutes

Present: Beth Rebman (Berkeley), Michael Colby (Davis), John Roberts (Berkeley), Steve Fry (Los Angeles), Garrett Bowles (San Diego), Mary Kay Duggan (Berkeley), John Tanno (Riverside), Gordon Theil (Los Angeles), Stephen Davison (Los Angeles).

1. Weather and flood reports were exchanged. Floods at Stanford prevented anyone from attending.

2. Cooperative ventures.

Serials project: Discussion of the ongoing serials project. GB has the databases. JR suggested that we make a list of new journals to discuss so at least someone will subscribe if they are important. Question was raised concerning subscriptions that have been cut: neither UCB or UCLA has cut journals they committed to, but they have cut titles others were committed to. GT and JR pointed out that is not possible to protect titles via a cooperative agreement.

Microforms: JR pointed out that there are significant projects on the horizon, e.g. major German composer collections in Berlin, Augsburg etc. GB suggested that CRL might be appropriate source but that their acquisitions process is to slow. GT suggested a true consortial purchase and sending materials to SRLF/NRLF, but JR countered that the two RLFs are not true equivalents. SF suggested that Stanford was drawing away from cooperative ventures. JR suggested that we wait to see what comes out.

Decisions:

Group agrees that these are important microfilm sets and that they ought to be in the system.

GB will update databases with new serials; he will act as “facilitator”.

3. Melvyl CAT/PE update.

Richard Lucier doesn’t want to put any resources into CAT/PE project. Committees are in limbo.

4. Other.

(i) Future Leadership.

MC will continue to lead (fearlessly); SD will continue to scribe (haphazardly). Will revisit in 12 months.

(ii) Z39.80 download of records into PC system.

Letter from Mary Engle: review of format for musical scores.

(iii) Infomine project.

If Fall meeting is in the South perhaps Lorelei Tanji could attend. Shall we meet at Irvine? GT and JT described the links as amateurish, not impressive.

5. Campus reports.

(i) UCLA: ORION2 in development with DRA. Recent gift of music mss. of Ray Bolger to Music Library (other materials were donated to School of Theater, Film and Television, along with scholarship money).

(ii) UCSD: Have stopped working on audio streaming reserve project using Liquid Audio. SGI server is out of date. Seeking new funds; new hardware to better utilize software capabilities; moving to Windows/NT platform.

(iii) Berkeley: Library is undergoing review process. Blue ribbon faculty committee has been appointed with Tony Newcomb as chair. Scheduled to report by the end of March. One result has been the departure of Peter Lyman as University Librarian. Hopefully there will be more money for collections; new Chancellor is showing interest. Current Library administration is planning a further 10% cut in staff (on top of 40% already).

(iv) Davis: Chancellor is committed to new concert hall on campus to attract a professional orchestra to campus.

Meeting adjourned.