Collection Development Working Group
ALA Midwinter Meeting
21 January 2007
Seattle, WA
Present: Kate Brooks (Indiana U), Judy Eckoff (CRL), Richard Hacken
(BYU), Jack Hall (U Houston), Sebastian Hierl (Harvard), Thea Lindquist
(U Colorado, Boulder), Jim Niessen (Rutgers), Anne Oechtering (Yale),
Kati Radics (UCLA), Beth Remak-Honnef (UC Santa Cruz), Timothy Shipe
(U Iowa), James Simon (CRL), Brian Vetruba (Washington U), Kizer Walker
(Cornell)
Guests: Todd Bludeau (Praxess), Kobi Leins (Walter de Gruyter, New York)
Introductions
The minutes from the meeting at ALA Annual in New Orleans in June 2006
were approved.
Report from GNARP Steering CommitteeMeeting (Niessen)
A conference was held in Frankfurt in October 2006 during the week of
the Frankfurt Book Fair and is well summarized in the recently published
GRN Newsletter http://www.crl.edu/grn/newsletter/GRN_8.pdf#page=1
. Presentations were given by pairs of subject specialists and contact
partners. The goals and partnership potential and organization of GNARP
were discussed at the Steering Committee meeting, in light of feedback
from Frankfurt conference attendees. German colleagues are interested
in knowing what US librarians think are useful goals. Librarian exchange
may be good area for collaboration with German colleagues.
Reports and Discussion of Collection Development Projects
• Xipolis online—Many important components have been dropped.
Georg Mannsperger is contact. Designed as general user, not academic,
reference tool. Georg offered Library Portal, which is flexible in terms
of titles offered and could include user statistics. Xipolis doesn't
offer user statistics. Deborah Rose Lefman at Northwestern noted during
cataloging that several titles have been dropped. Simon followed up
with Mannsperger. The resources that have been removed have supposedly
been replaced by similar resources. Radics recommends withdrawing from
agreement, and possibly renegotiating. Simon will distribute specifics
about Xipolis response.
• Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker online (DBdK)—Niessen
spoke with ProQuest at their booth. The database is now complete; no
additions are being made. Goethe, Brecht, Kafka, and Schiller will not
be included; they are in separate products.
• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
(BDSL)—1985-1995 is open access. Subscription includes open URL
implementation and 1995 to present. BDSL continues to grow. New features
are RSS feeds and direct searching. Updates to the database are made
only every three months. Semantics-forum: suggestions or comments on
the interface can be posted.
• Bibliography of Linguistics Literature online (BLL)— A
trial is currently underway. English interface expected soon. There
is interest in a title list with ISSN, but this is not available. Jeffry
Larson's comments about BLL should be forwarded to GERCD group. There
is interest in having two month trial period with the English interface.
• DigiZeitschriften—part of the database is open access.
Significant growth within last year. There are now 111 titles, a minority
of which are in the humanities. Göttingen's math journals are now
included. About one third of the existing titles are math journals.
Most technical effort goes into OCR. Incomplete full text search capability
works now. Open URL is not a priority for them. SFX capability does
work. DZ is on the pick list for Serials Solutions.
• CRL and collection sharing—Another section of the German
Colonial Archives is being acquired through the Purchase Proposal Program.
The Shared Purchase Program could also be used by CRL members to buy
needed items. The Demand Purchase Program was described by James Simon.
• Transatlantic contact partnerships—in limbo in some areas.
It may be time to review the list of US and German contact partnerships.
GERPAR list used seldom, and may not have been recently updated. Not
all SSG partners are members of GNARP or of this working group. Hacken
will review partners list and see if it is current.
• Cooperation in border regions between DLWG and CDWG—Klapp
published by V. Klostermann and is the French counterpart to BDSL. It
is of interest to CIFNAL as well. There is no substantive update about
the development of this product. Briefsammlung Trew: University of Erlangen
collection of letters about the history of science. In Latin, French,
German, etc. 19,000 letters. 2,200 authors. Send Trew collection information
to all GNARP listservs? Hierl may have distributed only to DLWG. Reinhart
at Dartmouth may have someone interested in it. UCLA has large history
of science program, but this product is too expensive even for them
to purchase. Hierl will send out information more widely and try to
estimate interest. Die Frauenfrage collection is a potential digital
project that Simon will continue to investigate. German dissertations:
40 titles have been loaded from a pilot collection of 110 dissertations.
Most on Kant, Leibniz, and Wolff. Not full-text searchable. It could
be expanded to philosophy, ancient Near East, etc. Pursue as TCP project.
Access information to be sent out; feedback requested. Presentation
by Austin of ProQuest to be scheduled at Digital Libraries WG at ALA
in Washington in June. Hierl to present at Leipzig in March to see if
there is German interest.
CDWG potential to meet GNARP goals
GNARP goal #1: Analyze strengths, overlaps and gaps in German collections—this
would be a way to more clearly differentiate DLWG and CDWG. WorldCat
collection development tool could be used for this if participating
libraries use it. Newspaper microfilm holdings cooperation in collection
development. Is a wiki a way to set up a newspaper/microfilm clearinghouse
of top 30 or so newspaper titles? Hacken can open a wiki corner for
this project. Everyone at this meeting will be made wiki editors and
then they can each input the titles and holdings that they have. It
would be nice to use WorldCat, so that another database would not need
to be updated. This may not be realistic, since newspaper holdings information
is notoriously inaccurate in catalogs.
DirektMedia—Jeff Garrett has a contact with them. Stephen Wolff
is American distributor. Hierl can speak with DirektMedia in Leipzig
about consortial package, but Harvard already subscribes. He will check
with Jeff prior to the meeting.
