Minutes 8/21/2018

Charge: To develop, implement, and review collection development and acquisitions policies, procedures and budget for all of the Library's collections in all formats to assure balance and equity.

MPH proposed a new way of communicating through confluence/infocentral.  A Library area has been set up with a sub-folder for this committee.  It will serve as a repository for agendas, meeting minutes, etc.   Accounts have been created for all librarians. If you have not received one, please let MPH know.

• MLA is now contracted exclusively with EBSCO.  An announcement can go out to relevant departments when HG get back.
• OLS is looking at streaming video services including Kanopy and Films on Demand
• WSJ stats show 3% of enrollment at BC are signed up. It is unclear from the report of WSJ use how many are faculty, students, staff, etc.

STEM initiative is up for renewal and there will likely be changes in the package and how costs are allocated. MPH will be part of a group discussing this, organized by OLS.

Selection Tools - We agreed to try using OASIS (COUTTS).  We’ll have a future working meeting of the CD committee to take a look at it.  Accounts will be created (GC)

We need to discuss our criteria for saying yes or no for accepting large collections, especially when it is books from a former faculty member or other community member.

Agreed that procedures will be drafted by MPH.

MPH suggested a standing agenda item to discuss monograph ordering progress and challenges.

Future initiatives, projects (what would you like this committee to be?)

A desire for more transparency, particularly in terms of decision-making regarding renewals/cancellations.

A project to review our subscriptions in order to plan our cancellations was suggested. Related to this was a request for more information on which licensed electronic resources are being used in OERs (and by other classes).

A recent article on libraries exiting "big deals" was discussed. We talked about possibly analyzing our own deals to see if we would be better off going title-by-title in some cases.

Mary pointed out that we need to be careful with cancellations because, in addition to the OER/class use concern, there are also some resources that are essential for program accreditation.