Fall Membership Meeting

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• Fall Membership Meeting
• Philadelphia
• October 29, 2008

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Agenda

• 830 am Continental breakfast
• 9 am Welcome and introductions goal-setting for
  this meeting
• 910 am PALCI business update (Dan Iddings)
• 940 am Election results (Joe Lucia)
• 950 am Cooperative collection development update
  (John Barnett, et al)
• PADL Pennsylvania Digital Library
• Distributed print archive
• Digitization guidelines
• E-books survey
• Disaster planning grant
• MINES for libraries
• 1015 am E-ZBorrow replacement update and
  discussion (Dan Iddings, evaluation team)

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Newest PALCI Members

• 72 Carlow University
• 73 La Roche College
• 74 Harrisburg University
• 75 Albright College

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Membership by FTEs
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• Update

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New Participants

• 61 State Library of PA
• 62 Carlow University
• 63 La Roche College
• 64 Misericordia University

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PALCI libraries not yet on E-ZBorrow

• Albright College
• Cabrini College
• Cheyney University
• Elizabethtown College
• Geneva College
• Harrisburg University

• Juniata College
• Lackawanna College
• Lebanon Valley College
• Susquehanna University
• Ursinus College

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Total lending 2008
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The PALCI Top 5

• Top lenders
• University of Pennsylvania
• Rutgers University
• Penn State University
• Temple University
• University of Pittsburgh
• Top borrowers
• University of Pennsylvania
• Rutgers University
• University of Pittsburgh
• Temple University
• Penn State University

• Top net lenders
• Penn State University
• Bucknell University
• LaSalle University
• Temple University
• Carnegie Mellon Univ
• Top net borrowers
• Marshall University
• Allegheny College
• Indiana University
• Lehigh University
• Millersville University

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E-ZBorrow Use Data

• http//datafarm.library.upenn.edu/bdrpt_ez.html
• To pull date for your own library, youll need a
  passcode
• If you dont know or remember yours, contact the
  PALCI

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RapidILL Update

• Formed Summer-Fall 2007
• 22 active members in PALCI pod
• At least 2 others planning to join this year
• Pod currently enjoying 93 to 95 fill rate
• Average turnaround time for filled requests15.6
  hours
• September 20082,098 requests filled

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PALCI pod membership

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Dickinson College
• Drexel University
• Eastern University
• Gettysburg College
• Franklin Marshall College
• Kutztown University
• LaSalle University
• Lycoming College
• Mansfield University
• Marywood University

• Marshall University
• Millersville University
• Rowan University
• Rutgers University
• Swarthmore College
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Scranton
• Temple University
• Villanova University
• West Virginia University

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PALCI elections

• 6 candidates for 3 board positions
• Election conducted through 3-week survey in
  PALCIs Survey Monkey account
• Voter institutions official PALCI
  representative
• Board members may serve for two 3-year terms

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Candidates

• Linda Bills, Allegheny College
• Liz Evans, Point Park University
• Tara Fulton, Lock Haven University
• H. Carton Rogers, University of Pennsylvania
• Peggy Seiden, Swarthmore College
• Dick Swain, West Chester University

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Election results

• H. Carton Rogers (1st term)
• Peggy Seiden (1st full term replaced Bob Kieft
  for the remainder of his term)
• Dick Swain (2nd term)
• Thank you for voting!

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Cooperative Collection Development

• PADL Pennsylvania Digital Library
• Digitization grant
• Distributed print archive
• Disaster planning grant
• E-books survey
• MINES

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PADL

• Pennsylvania Digital Library, metadata repository
  and search interface for Pennsylvania digital
  collections.
• Codeveloped by University of Pittsburgh and PALCI
• Any collection using Open Archives Initiative
  Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) can be
  included.

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PADL

• All collections in Access PA Digital Repository
  adhere to this protocol and are harvested.
• Collections from libraries, archives, museums,
  educational institutions, cultural heritage
  agencies, et al., may be included.
• http//padl.pitt.edu

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PADL

• Future plans more sophisticated searching.
• Wed encourage you to use this search engine with
  your students and faculty to provide greater
  access to resources representative of
  Pennsylvanias history, society, and culture.

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Digitization grant

• Speaking of Pennsylvanias history, society, and
  culture . . .
• Digital collection guidelines for Pennsylvania
• LSTA-funded project
• PALCI-PALINET-PACSCL, working with a panel of
  scholars and experts from across the Commonwealth

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Recommended priorities for digitization

• Topics1st tier
• The environment and land use
• Population groups from 1850 to the present
• Transportation and industry
• Major nineteenth- and twentieth century
  conflicts--and the communities of conscience that
  have reacted to war, injustice, and intolerance
• Topics2nd tier
• Economy
• Politics and government
• Technology, science, and medicine
• Culture
• Society

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Recommended priorities for digitization

• Materials
• Historical sound and moving image documents
• Primary sources that are outside the purview of
  current initiatives for newspapers, diaries,
  printed works, and census records
• E.g., vital records, including birth and death
  records, land records, et al.

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Digitization grant

• Brochure in development designed by Cheryl Greer
• Front
• Interior (2)

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Distributed print archive

• Christy Roysdon and Sharon Wiles-Young of Lehigh
  have been working diligently on this
• Create distributed archive of print volumes for
  all journals of select scientific societies
• Archive is static, with agreed-upon final year
  for each society
• Provide agreed-upon holdings information
• Provide agreed-upon archival care and user access
• Maintain archive until 2020

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Distributed print archive

• Initial project limited to journal runs from
• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• For each proposed journal run, deep electronic
  archive available
• American Chemical Society, 1879 to 1995
• American Institute of Physics, rolling, currently
  1930-2002
• American Physical Society (PROLA), 18932004

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Summer meeting on distributed archive

• 16 institutions expressed interest in the project
  and submitted a census of their holdings
• 10 institutions plus PALCI represented at August
  13 meeting at Lehigh University

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Decisions at August meeting

• IOP archive no longer part of initial project
• Goal is 2 dark, 2 light archives
• Environmental specifications apply to dark
  archive only
• Access to light archives should reflect holding
  institutions access policies
• Agreement goes to 2020, but with midterm review
  probably in 2014

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Next steps

• 2 teams created, one charged with securing light
  archive for ACS, the other with securing light
  archive for AIP/APS
• Agreement revised and recirculated
• Christy and John are pursuing dark archive
  agreements

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Disaster planning

• 2nd Alliance for Response Pittsburgh meeting
• Proposed development of Central PA Alliance for
  Response
• Disaster planning training project (LSTA)
• If approved, would take place in 2009-2010
• PALCI would contract with PALINET to provide
  training other activities managed by PALCI

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Disaster planning training grant

• 6 regional training sessions providing baseline
  disaster planning/emergency response training
• Provide copies of Heritage Preservation
  publications to PALCI libraries
• MayDay activities for all PALCI libraries
• Create continuing education agenda

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E-books survey

• Conducted earlier this semester
• Some 70 library staff respondedincluding
  directors, collection development coordinators,
  acquistions coordinators, and reference/public
  service heads
• Involvement by Scott Anderson, Millersville
  Tracie Ballock, Duquesne Barbara Burd,
  Misericordia Cheryl Greer, PALCI and Bob Kieft,
  Haverford

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Findings

• 53.8 respondents stated that their institutions
  had 1 to 4 off-campus centers or multiple
  campuses
• In contrast, 40.4 respondents said their student
  population was nearly 100 residential some
  57.7 said that their institutions offered fewer
  than 25 of courses through distance education

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Findings

• 87.5 of respondents said their institutions
  already had an e-book collection 28.3 said that
  their collection had more than 10,000 volumes
• 62.5 said they would be interested in a PALCI
  e-book collection 66.7 would like to see a
  collection that is purchased/owned with annual
  maintenance

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Findings

• Top choices for collection content
• Reference (80.0)
• Computer science (63.3)
• Core works (RCL) (60.0)
• Sci, Tech, Med (53.3)
• Business (46.7)
• Education (46.7)
• Social sciences (43.3)

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MINES for PALCI libraries

• MINES Measuring the Impact of Networked
  Electronic Services
• ARL-developed survey tool that collects data on
  user demographics and the purpose of use of
  electronic resources
• Results used to demonstrate outcomes and library
  contributions to teaching, learning, and
  research indirect costs of research

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MINES for PALCI libraries

• WVU expressed interest in consortial discount
  pricing
• ARL doesnt offer discounts because of tailored
  local implementation
• PALCI approached ARL about a joint grant for
  MINES implementation for a group of PALCI
  libraries

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Progress

• 2 conference calls held last week (more can be
  arranged if necessary)
• Discussed suitability of MINES for various PALCI
  libraries
• Aim is to have grant funding pay for most if not
  all of implementation
• May try to develop subgroupings of libraries
  (ARL, doctoral-granting, Oberlin, liberal arts,
  etc.) under more than 1 grant

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E-ZBorrow Replacement

• Update and discussion

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Thank you for coming!