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Present: Jim Church, Natalia Estrada, David Faulds, Mohamed Hamed, Mark Hemhauser, Chan Li, Toshie Marra, Jo Anne Newyear-Ramirez, Stacy Reardon (minutes), Lisa Rowlison de Ortiz (attending for Jean Dickinson), Michael Sholinbeck, Jesse Silva, and Hannah Tashjian
Absent: Sam Teplitzky, Jean Dickinson
Welcome & Introductions
Thank you for the contributions from last year's members
Welcome to new members
What CSC does
Importance of the working nature of the group, and its broad representation
The group's role as a communication arm for issues to come from the subject councils or from CDLG
Minute taking
We will rotate note taking by first name
Minutes are emailed out and posted online.
Changes to CSC's structure
Jesse will chair. Jo Anne will attend.
CSC will have a co-chair. The co-chair will work with Jesse and Jo Anne to develop the agenda and attend CDLG quarterly.
The goal of this restructuring is to increase transparency in decision making and provide a professional development opportunity for an interested CSC member to gain additional experience in collections.
Interested CSC members can email Jesse if they would like to serve or nominate others. We'll decide on the co-chair during the next meeting.
Communication and CSC Member involvement
Aim is to be as communicative as possible.
CSC welcomes members suggestions and additional ideas on how to enhance communication with the rest of the library (e.g., brown bags, attending division and council meetings, clearer action points, etc.)
Members are welcome to add items to the agenda
Topics to work on this year
CDLG had a retreat at the end of July. Topics coming out of that retreat address CDLG's vision and goals for collections. CSC needs to be selective about topics. We are aiming for 4-5.
Developing Criteria for OA Investments
COUL has asked campuses to develop such criteria and create a pool of funding for investments
The criteria may diverge from CDL, but it's important for us to have the conversation at Berkeley. Could also affect local decisions.
Some funds have been tentatively set aside for OA investments
Some examples of previous OA funding include: CRL digitization for global newspaper, Reveal Digital, purchased Lyrasis ebook collections, some journal subscriptions
This could be a potential topic for a Library Communications Office blog post
Inventory of Collaborative Action Partnerships
There has been interest in developing partnerships with other institutions, but we haven't done anything coordinated, nor is there a list of current partnerships
First figure out what individual selectors and collections are currently doing (e.g., Stanford agreement, area studies, CRL)
Determine how to define collaborative action
Existing partnerships could become part of the overall collection development strategy
Library Policy and Guidelines continuation
Two years ago CSC assessed policy gaps and needed changes
Before we could take action, we had staff changes and budget cuts.
We should review this document and assess our current priorities, consider implementation.
Desiderata list
Actively develop a desiderata list for times when there are additional collections fund available
CSC can develop criteria for the list
Compile the list through Council outreach
Could include materials and collections
Less appropriate for projects (e.g., deselection, digitization, cataloging) since these would require longer-term planning and investment
Brainstorming Additional Topics
Enhance access to materials in OskiCat that are in non-Roman languages (we did this with Arabic and Persian materials, working on Hebrew). Our group might be able to think about how to keep this sustainable moving forward.
DLP-related projects. What relationship might we have with this group, if any? Invite AUL Salwa Ismail to a future CSC meeting.
How to provide user-friendly access to major newspapers and magazines popular on campus
LAAG Dashboard Rollout (C.Li)
Tableau dashboard launched in June
Reviewed dashboard and content to be found there
LAAG discussed next steps and also went out to the Councils
Collection use analysis has been a topic of interest: people interested in making more data-informed collection development decisions and to monitor trends over time.
Challenges to using the data: unfriendly access to the data (confusing, in multiple locations, formats); limited data points means the data is not always useful for selectors; difficulty in comparing different types of data; definitions of metrics is unclear and not documented
Wishlist for data: people interested in title-level data, as well as group-level analysis, integration of print and digital format data, trend analysis, ability to export the data, user data
CSC could help define criteria (such what is "use"), future survey for students, help develop what the data might be used for and communicate that.
There will likely be strategic funds again this year, more forthcoming
Other Topics
There will likely be strategic funds again this year. More information will be forthcoming
Action Items
CSC members to email Jesse to nominate yourself or others for co-chair.
Suggest topics for CSC to work on this year.
Suggest strategies for communication