Resources for Users Committee -- Minutes November 22, 2002 -- 10:00 AM Alderman Library, University of Virginia Gene Damon, Presiding Present: Gene Damon, Chair; Jacque Dessino, TCC, Sharon Gasser, JMU; Pat Hausman, W&M; Paul Metz, VPI (scribe); Pam Morgan, ODU; Jane Penner, UVA; Kathy Perry, VIVA Director; Ruth Stanton, NVCC (for Sylvia Rortvedt); Jim Rettig, Richmond; John Walsh, GMU; John Tombarge, W&L; Karen Cary, VCU. 1. Announcements None 2. Changes to agenda status of the agreement to preserve specific titles within nursing. Ruth Staunton will check on this. Kathy will send the VIVA list a note and call for comments. 3. Approval of Minutes of , 2000 meeting No changes --Minutes of October 11, 2002 approved by consensus. 4. Budget -- K. Perry Copies of the current updated budget were distributed. The uncommitted nominal balance is nominally $21,071, but more like $150,000 after correcting some errors noted after the document was prepared. 5. Gale - J. Rettig J. Rettig reviewed various K-12 databases Gale has offered us gratis. While we have generally avoided free resources, we voted to recommend acceptance of the Professional Collection, which may be useful to people in Education. Kathy Perry noted that SIRS, a related resource, is also available free. 6. Renewals While some renewal decisions were not made until the discussion on retention priorities was complete, the final recommendations were as follows: Recommended renewal of: Cambridge university Press journals Gale Group ABC-CLIO CSA Lexis-Nexis Statistical Stats-USA Recommend against renewal of: Periodicals Contents Index (set to lapse in March 2003). Use has been light, and we believe that the funds spent can be better used either for new resources or, in the event of cuts, to protect other resources. 7. BIP Bowker will not license Books In Print to other vendors such as Gale in the future. We will have a trial of BIP using the Bowker platform. Pat Hausman will handle the vendor negotiations. 8. Discussion on priorities for retention Some adjustments were made among high, medium, and low priority assignments for current resources. Periodicals Contents Index was removed from the list per the earlier recommendation against renewal. 9. List of desired purchases Wilson Education Full Text, Web of Knowledge, and IEEE's "All Society" package were added to the existing list. In the likely event that there is not sufficient new funding, or sufficient funds freed by cancellations, to procure our most-wanted new resources, the group resolved to pursue them on our own. There was particular interest in the IEEE offer, which would require coordination between VIVA and the existing doctoral-level subscribers to IEEE's Electronic Library. Next meeting: TBD