§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
February 28, 2002
University Club, University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
- Present:
- Paul Willis, Hannelore Rader, Larry Besant, Mike Binder, Nancy Campbell (for Arne Almquist), Janet Brewer (for Coy Harmon) and Lee Van Orsdel
- Special Guests:
- Dwayne Butler, Evelyn Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication, University of Louisville
- Absent:
- Larry Reese, Karen McDaniel
- Mike Binder, chair of SAALCK, convened the meeting. Lunch was provided courtesy of Eastern Kentucky University. Over lunch, Dwayne Butler introduced himself and talked about his role at the University of Louisville. He will work with the library on issues of copyright and licensing, teach, and act as copyright resource for the campus at large. Rader added that she hoped that Butler's presence would allow them to get better contracts with a broader definition of fair use. Other discussion centered on the difficulties of educating faculty about copyright issues surrounding distance education and on the implications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Butler hopes to put up a website on these issues that other SAALCK library can link to, a possibility that was received with great interest.
- Willis announced that the University of Kentucky Press has appointed a new Director, Stephan Wrinn, who will begin on April 15.
- Binder informed the group that Miko Pattie was unable to attend the meeting. Binder gave some of the background on our interest in getting help from KYVL in negotiating licensing deals beyond the core and asked if Butler could help us with that. Butler expressed his willingness. In a general discussion of this need, Willis commented that UK has needs far beyond those currently being meet by KYVL, and that, in fact, UK is subsidizing other institutions through that arrangement. Besant gave the example of Sci-Finder Scholar (replaced STN, the Chemistry search engine) as a core academic database that should have a group license. Campbell spoke in favor of a cafeteria plan, like that of TechShare, where each institution can choose the databases they need using pre-set discounts negotiated by the consortium. Binder spoke of SAALCK's interest in persuading Pattie to consider such a model for Kentucky. Coming out of the discussion was a strong consensus that our group should attempt to work with KYVL to expand the model before considering other options, such as Solinet or another fiscal agent.
- There was renewed interest in the spreadsheet Almquist developed with the database overlap information. Campbell was going to ask Almquist to distribute copies. Binder suggested that the group make a list of SAALCK's top concerns. The ad hoc committee appointed earlier (Willis, Almquist and Besant) was asked by the group to select two or three databases for Pattie to consider brokering for us.
- Willis suggested that SAALCK might offer to go to Gordon Davies or to Daniel Rabuzzi (Director of KYVU) to argue for the help Pattie needs to support us. After some discussion about possible strategies, the group asked Binder to put our concerns/intentions in writing to Pattie with a copy to Rabuzzi before the next meeting. If Pattie cannot meet with us at the next SAALCK meeting, everyone indicated a willingness to meet whenever she is available.
- Binder indicated that Gale wants to make a presentation to SAALCK on their products. There was general agreement that that was acceptable to the group.
- The next VLAC meeting is May 10. SAALCK will plan to meet on May 9th.
Recorder: Lee Van Orsdel, Vice-Chair, SAALCK