CSST Meeting Notes 2/28/18

Nancy Turner began the meeting with a discussion of library strategic teams

• Strategic Team model is a new iterative approach to fulfilling the strategic objectives/actions
• Team structure is based on pre-existing spheres of action...research data, scholarly communication
• Each team has a presence on Confluence
• The first two teams took 2-3 months to talk about and draft their charge and priorities
• Teams are self-directed groups focused on impact for the entire library in a holistic way
• Teams are intended to have a flat structure, within team Brian is not our boss
• Specificity of the charge?  Up to us, but look at other teams that are posted
• For goals, we want to think both short term and long term
• Regarding membership, we should balance specific strengths in our areas with a broader view of collections

Brian Schoolar next discussed a few housekeeping issues

• A Team Drive is open to us
• We will rotate who takes notes, going alphabetically by last name
• For the short term, we will have weekly meetings on March 7 and March 14; following that, we will perhaps meet biweekly and reassess the needed frequency
• The Physical Collections Working Group has overlaps with this one (Brian S, Justin, Margery, Karen)

ACTION ITEM:  Members will brainstorm the scope of collection strategy and put their individual notes in the Team Drive by COB on Monday 3/5/18

The remainder of the meeting was spent with initial brainstorming, including the following

• Ejournal prices, needed by HSL faculty
• Budget strategy, optimizing access with limited resources
• Collections that support research, scholarship, instruction from strategic document
• Collection development policy
• Financial pressure...academic library can't do it all
• Tightening pressures require us to differentiate ourself via unique collections
• Various formats/models (big deal, PDA, EBA, etc.) for collection purchasing
• Platform requirements (e.g. DRM free)
• Space management, different models of acquisition PDA as it relates to ILL
• Collaborative collection development
• Costs of having an item over its lifetime, withdrawal
• Access vs ownership, how does this apply across collections and does material, format, change this?
• Deselection esp. with space concerns
• Collection strengths
• Open access resources and OER, how do we prioritize that?
• More discussions across the library about principles, policies, practice to align practice with principles.
• How are orders deduplicated?
• Audience for collections (e.g. Online classes, med school teachers)
• Public relations value of collections (leisure reading could have intangible value for staff, alumni)