Members attending: Susie Bossenga (Northeastern Illinois University), Chris Bulock (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, chair), Luann DeGreve (Benedictine University), Ruth Lindemann (Danville Area Community College), Stephen McMinn (University of Illinois at Springfield), Charles Uth (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Staff attending: Cindy Clennon, Mary Burkee, Elizabeth Clarage
The selection system is now closed and all participating libraries have made their selections. The proposal for Phase 3 of the redesign process is pending.
Discussion of what was needed in terms of library support for the change to Academic Search Complete from Academic Search Premier. Most people thought that the transition would be relatively seamless.
46 libraries selected CINAHL Complete and 75 libraries selected Alexander Street Press offerings. Six libraries chose not to participate.
New members have accepted their appointments to begin on July 1, 2014. Susie volunteered to become the new Chair. Everyone thanked Chris for his excellent service as this year’s chair. Chris’s leadership has been instrumental in the success of the committee this year especially with regard to the extra challenges brought about by the reorganization of the committee structure and the advent of the white paper.
Due to membership changes beginning July 1, 2014, five CARLI institutions are upgrading from affiliate membership to governing membership and nine institutions will be terminating their membership. As of July 1, 2014 the CARLI membership will consist of 132 governing members and 5 affiliate members.
Elizabeth provided an update on current participation and statistics to date. A brief discussion on the rising rates for short term loans by some publishers highlighted by the letter from the Boston Library Consortium also took place.
The committee discussed potential plans for the next fiscal year including an interest survey, various programming ideas to follow up on the white paper topics, updating the CARLI licensing principles, and identifying ways to solicit quality new proposals for consideration by CARLI.
Next meeting: To be scheduled.