June 5, 2019 Meeting of Social Science

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Minute taker: Cindy Ingold
Present: Lisa Romero, Chris Bailey, Cindy Ingold, and Nancy O’Brien

SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION
Meeting Minutes

June 5, 2019
10:00-11:30am
225b Main Library

Minute taker: Cindy Ingold

Present: Lisa Romero, Chris Bailey, Cindy Ingold, and Nancy O’Brien

1. Approval of May 1 minutes (see G:/Social Sciences Division/MINUTES/DRAFT Minutes).
May 1 minutes on hold until accepted after a final review.

2. Announcements and Discussion Items:
• Cindy talked about the ProQuest Access and Build Offer so SSD members could suggest items to Tom Teper for end-of-year spending. Cindy had okayed this with Tom at the last CDC meeting.

This news item (from an April 8 email sent by Tom Teper) https://www.library.illinois.edu/news/trial-access-to-100-proquest-electronic-resources/ provides these details:

“The ProQuest “Access and Build Program” includes access through August 31, 2021, to 115 electronic resources (see below) that touch on the humanities, music and the arts, the social sciences, and some scientific disciplines. There are newspapers, government documents, digitized books and journals, scanned microform sets, streaming videos, and recorded sound collections.

A ProQuest website highlights everything that is available through the duration of the Access & Build Program. Users can search for digital journals, newspapers, and databases at https://sfx.carli.illinois.edu/sfxuiu/az. Resources in the Program are labeled as a trial.”

The ProQuest page https://go.proquest.com/UIllinoisUrbana_19/ organizes resources into five broad categories and provides links. This page also supposedly lists products we already own, but Cindy found one mistake so she told the group to check on a resource before suggesting it for purchase because we might already own it. These products may or may not be listed in the Databases by Subject page http://guides.library.illinois.edu/az.php which is what our users tend to use. They are supposed to be in SFX. Reminder: Alexander Street Press Products are now under ProQuest.

We looked at the products under Social Sciences. Lisa and Cindy might be interested in LGBT Magazine Archive. Nancy thought Social Work Online would be a good addition. Cindy asked that SSD members email Tom directly with suggestions but to copy her, and to please do this by Friday June 7 noon at the latest. Cindy will put a spreadsheet in the SSD folder showing use of these products.

3. Reports
• Area Studies Division rep to SSD (Rudasill)—no report
• Collection Development Committee (Ingold)—
Two additional announcements: There is a sandbox for the new Integrated Library System (ILS) that folks in acquisitions and other units are playing with. Cindy suggested SSD members read Michal Norman’s update about the new ILS system in the June LON. Second, Willie Kries in CAM removed all Kanopy records from the OPAC that we do not lease. Chris asked about Kanopy and Cindy explained that our funding of this resource has changed over the last few years. Now, we only lease titles for one year and only for classes. Before, there were records in the OPAC of things we did not lease and it was very confusing to faculty.
• Data Interest Group (Phillips)—no report
• Diversity Committee (Ingold, Pionke)—May meeting was cancelled
• Faculty Review Committee (O’Brien)—Nancy said FRC is doing some housekeeping. Graphs will be removed from the FRC annual report letters. Nancy’s term on FRC ends next November. Cindy will be the next SSD rep on FRC.
• LSSC Representative (Varvel) — No report
• Reference Management Team (Feng)—No report
• SSD rep to Central Public Services Division (Ingold)—No report
• Staff Development & Training Committee (Ingold, Pionke)—Cindy has not been at the last two meetings. There is a lot going on. We have had several webinars. Room 106 will be updated to accommodate live streaming of events as well as recording options. We will provide a series of stress management training facilitated by Michele Guerra from campus wellness. Hope to record sessions. We also hope to have ongoing training during the ILS implementation and especially the building project.

4. Round Robin
• Lisa-Communications is quiet. A new staff member begins on Monday.
• Nancy—Getting a lot done but still quite busy. Lots of deadlines, reports, etc.
• Chris—Ditto what Nancy said. He will be meeting with Emily Knox, the coordinator for the new BS in Information Science degree, to integrate library instruction into IS 101.
• Cindy—Getting a lot done too. Still no word from campus on naming a Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The search had two rounds: 4 in the fall and 4 in the spring.

July 3rd meeting cancelled.