December 13, 2017 Meeting of Life Sciences

Time and Location of Meeting

December 13, 2017

Agenda Details

Agenda

  1. Approval of 10/11 minutes (taken by Susan)
  2. Collections discussion
    1. Start discuss of candidates for transfer to the Med fund next fall – Peg
  3. Decide whether or not to continue providing PubMed LinkOut to full-text – Sarah
  4. Vet Med Library update – Erin
  5. College of Medicine update – Kelli, Erin, Peg, Ryan
  6. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
  7. Round Table
  8. Adjourn

Minutes Details

Minutes

  1. Approval of 10/11 minutes (taken by Susan)
    1. Minutes approved with a few minor corrections

 

  1. Collections discussion
  • Start discuss of candidates for transfer to the Med fund next fall – Peg
    1. Have one-time money ($500,000) and new recurring money ($500,000) for Med coming fall of 2018
      1. Peg created Box folder to identify journals to transfer from other funds
    2. UIC will contribute $100,000 over next 3 years for Up-To-Date
      1. Will not support it after the contract runs out (supposedly)
    3. Peg initially said no to Up-To-Date
      1. Curriculum coordinator has asked her to reconsider
  • Lynn Wiley put together a task force to review approval funds
    1. Is asking divisions to decide if they want to set up an auto-ship profile for specific publishers
      1. See Lynn’s emails for background information
        1. She can run detailed reports for individual funds
        2. As a division, make a decision at February meeting

 

  1. Decide whether or not to continue providing PubMed LinkOut to full-text – Sarah
    1. The link was broken when library website migrated to WordPress
    2. Need to decide if we want to continue using it
      1. Also have “Discover” link that shows up
      2. Might be confusing to patrons to have two links
    3. Decision to get rid of LinkOut

 

  1. Vet Med Library update – Erin
    1. Dedication of renovated library space was Dec. 1
    2. Renovation is officially compete!

 

  1. College of Medicine update – Kelli, Erin, Peg, Ryan
    1. Discussions continue between UIC and UIUC on proposal to move Ryan to Grainger
    2. Peg sat in on meeting with Thread Coordinator to understand what the students’ schedule will look like, how the curriculum plays out
      1. Students will use Compass for course management
    3. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
      1. CDC – discussion continues about canceling journal subscriptions that have overlapping access, information will be pushed out to fund managers
      2. Assessment Committee – a forum is being planned for the spring and an exhibit demonstrating results of the grant program
      3. User Services Advisory – Budget reduction is 1.5% for the coming year
        1. Will come from central money; no plan for divisions to make cuts
      4. Reference Management – looking at options to replace current chat software

 

  1. Round Table
    1. Susan attended a data management workshop in St. Louis
      1. Would like to see subject specialists more involved in DMP review
    2. Funk ACES did space assessment survey before Thanksgiving
      1. 53% of respondents were from outside of life sciences
      2. “quiet, comfortable, clean”

 

  1. Adjour