COMMITTEE: LIBRARIES
COMMITTEE
MEETING DATE: January 16, 2008, 3:30 pm
PERSON PRESIDING: Salman Abdulali
REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Salman
Abdulali (C), Tom Douglass (VC), Jim Wirth, Juan Daneri,
John Heilman, Patrick Valentine (S).
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Beth
Winstead, Jeff Coghill for Dorothy Spencer, Jan Lewis
for Larry Boyer
OTHERS IN ATTENDANCE:
Lisa Barricella, Katherine Rickett.
Agenda Item 1: Approval of October 17, 2007
meeting minutes.
Action:
Approval was postponed.
Agenda Item 2: Old business: Materials budgets for Laupus, Joyner,
and Virtual Libraries.
Coghill and Lewis
distributed copies of Laupus and Joyner acquisition budgets, which included
funds for the virtual library, and made presentations about trends in
collection development. Library
collection budgets have increased in recent years but are complicated to graph
and track precisely year by year.
Considerable discussion was held regarding budgetary impact on
collections and the switch to electronic publications, especially e-journals
and e-archival materials. Cooperation
between Laupus and Joyner was stressed, as was using consortiums with other
Agenda item 3:
New Business: Collection
development.
Abdulali
called for a subcommittee to be formed to discuss Collection Development in
more detail. No decision was made.
Agenda item 4:
Announcements.
Abdulali made several announcements.
Agenda item 5:
Discussion of agenda for February meeting.
Further
discussion of Collection Development is needed.
The
meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
NEXT MEETING: 3:30 p.m., February 20,
2008.
ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:
Collection
Development will be the main topic.
Respectfully
submitted,
Patrick
Valentine
Secretary
ECU
Library Committee
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/lb/libraries.cfm