PRESENT:
Anderson, Boerner, Garrett, Kilton (Chair), Niessen
ABSENT: Griebel, Olson,
Rosenstock, Rutledge, Walden
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I. Report
on portions of the GRP Steering Committee meeting
This meeting immediately followed the
meeting of the GRP Steering Committee.
Kilton and Garrett first reported on actions taken at that II. Items from the CD-Working Group
meeting A. Kilton
and Garrett reported on the decisions of the Steering Committee, and it
was decided that Kilton, Garrett, and Anderson would draft the letters for
Duane Webster to send to the directors of the DFG and GRP libraries. Everyone agreed that these letters should effectively
introduce the concept of the partnerships and address qualities desired in
the liaisons, such as responsiveness, good p.r. skills, and enthusiasm. It
was also decided that a major part of the work of the liaisons will be to
identify and become familiar with at least the highlights of other
principal collections in their respective countries.
(For instance, column "F" in the proposed contact
partnerships document lists the principal US "Equivalent
Collections," and thus the North American partner would be
responsible for developing this list.)
This and other work envisioned for the liaisons will be also
included in the draft letter we submit to Webster.
Two additional subject areas suggested at the Steering Committee
meeting for addition to the present fifteen pilot project areas are Latin
America and Southeast Asia.
B. The
seven examples of activities which the partnership might facilitate (p. 2 of the proposed contact partnerships
document) were discussed. Kilton
asked that CD Working Group members try to think of additional work
areas which might be appropriate and report them to him by e-mail. C.
The exchange program proposed in New Orleans by Lou Pitschmann
under which unwanted GDR materials from the Padagogische Hochschule,
Erfurt could be distributed to North American Libraries was dicsussed.
Jim Niessen agreed to contact Lou concerning the details of this
and to report back on it to the CD-Working Group.
D. North American Title Count.
The NATC website which was created by Roger from the CD-ROM is
currently on the Library of Congress server.
The production site which is to be posted to the GRP German library
members by the beginning of February will soon be mounted on a server at
ARL. There, Dru Mogge
has agreed to set up the site with login and password access.
This will be available to all GRP members, both in North America
and in Germany. E.
Issue of Harvard University Library and the Library of Congress.
This issue (the degree to which these libraries might want to participate
in the contact partnerships) which had recently been discussed by
CD-Working Group members by e-mail should be resolved by these
institutions' answers to the letter which Duane Webster will send out to
the directors of GRP member libraries. F.
GRP German member libraries. Although
technically there are only four libraries on the German side which
are members of the GRP, we on the American side are now extending our
initiatives to DFG-SSG libraries, to the GBV, particularly with respect to
GBV-Direkt/North America, and also to any new members of GRP on the German
side. For the purposes
of contact partnerships these various groupings on the German side were
discussed. Although the CD-Working Group is concerned primarily
with the DFG-SSG libraries for its current partnership project, all three
groups of German libraries should be kept in mind for any future work.
According to statements by German GRP members in Gttingen and Leipzig last
March, a significant number of other German libraries have expressed
interest in becoming GRP members.
Thomas Kilton
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