Serials
Consolidation Task Force
Charge:
- 1) Identify journal subscriptions that are currently
maintained directly
or through a small vendor but now can be handled through a major
subscription agent.
- 2) Examine and document how and why library staff assign journals to
subscription agents, including (a) multiple subscriptions with different
agents, and (b) publishers with journals handled by several agents.
- 3) Obtain information on the vendors for our current journals, explore
and
document desirable options and services provided by subscription agents
(including handling of online journals), and create a list of preferred
vendors.
- 4) Develop recommendations for simplifying and consolidating
subscriptions
and agents for domestic and foreign periodicals, and a process for making
decisions on consolidations.
The committee members should confer with libraries throughout the
system.
It should strive to complete its work by 15 July and deliver a report to
the Collection Development Council for discussion.
Members
- Jeffry Larson (chair),
- Marcia Romanansky,
- Susan Tucker,
- Andy
Shimp,
- Cynthia
Crooker
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