Commercial Products Committee Meeting: October 10, 2025

CONFERENCE CALL

Members Attending: Amanda Avery (Parkland College), Chad Buckley (Illinois State University),  Sarah Hill (Lake Land College), Ann Johnston (Olivet Nazarene University), Ashtin Trimble (Black Hawk College), Leslie Wolfgang (Saint John's College of Nursing)

CARLI Staff Attending: Jenny Taylor, Nicole Ream-Sotomayor, Yanira Cruz

Members Absent: Audra Deemer (DePaul University), Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe (Chicago State University), Michele Hunt (Northern Illinois University)

Announcements   

CARLI Updates

• Opened CY26 selections in ConsortiaManager through November 14 (technically set through Sunday, Nov. 16)
  • Currently missing pricing for ACS and Sage Databases; both vendors have new contracts beginning in 2026
• CARLI Annual Meeting and 20th anniversary celebration on October 21.

Discussion

PRODUCT PROPOSALs

• APA Style Manual - the committee decided to not pursue a license at this time

Annual Project Ideas

• Potential project for occasional community training informal calls/discussions with other e-resources pepole about topics of interest. This proposal was accepted as a 2-year project, with one topic to explore being use of ConsortiaManager
  • Could explore training and other capabilities of the product (e.g., running reports by individual libraries). Add-on modules are also available that could be explored.
• Past projects have included the e-resources survey, VPAT page on the CARLI website, and participation in the CARLI AI Sysmposium last year with other committees
• Question about potential overlap with the CARLI E-Resources Management Committee. That group focuses primarily on Alma e-resource management.
• Also look at the e-resources survey in more depth to see if we need to change any questions

Other business

• The group previously discussed ideas for a talk talk during the annual meeting; the current list of proposals is being considered by CARLI leadership.

Decisions

• Minutes of the September 12 meeting were approved.
• Meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m.

Tasks Assigned

• Think about the e-resources survey results that may need follow-up or questions to be changed for next year

Meeting Dates

• Next Meeting: Friday, November 14, 11 a.m. via Zoom
• Schedule of upcoming meetings:
  • Friday, December 12, 11 a.m. via Zoom
  • Friday, January 9, 11 a.m. via Zoom