Serials Interest Group for Academic Libraries in Oklahoma (SIGALO)
Oklahoma Union List of Serials
Spring 2009 Joint Meeting
Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, OK
May 15, 2009

Welcome from Mike Rusk, Library Dean of TCC

            -metro campus is first one, founded 1970’s; now have 4 (newest opened ’95)
            -approx 22,000 students w/ large portion being distance education
            -here 30 years, just in time for change to computers
            -believes in putting technology and decision-making power in the hands of those who need   and use it (ie, at the point-of-service)

OKULS business meeting, Ila Grice Coffman, chair

            -started in ‘60’s
            -94/95—not enough fees to pay for AMIGOS, etc., and HSC took lead to reorganize and rejuvenate
            -’00—AMIGOS stopped inputting data for us; most bigger schools had already switched to putting holdings into OCLC;
              no longer needed to charge a fee for membership (suspended   indefinitely)
            - current balance: $5830.87 in ODL revolving account
            -Dana is the OCLC agent for smaller schools who need the help
            -OCLC no longer working with AMIGOS as of July, so unclear how that will affect SIGALO
            -according to Pauline, who attended AMIGOS meeting, we can still use AMIGOS as an agent to OCLC, but they can’t
             charge us for handling the billing (OCLC will pay them depending on how many institutions use them)
            -moved, seconded, and voice vote to keep status quo for the next year

            -OKULS stats

            -minutes from previous meeting OK’d

            -open spot on Council (due to Beverly’s move)—Sandra Thomas from Southeastern; Harriet from Northeastern as alternate;
             CoMing will be taking over the chair for the coming year

SIGALO meeting

            -Dana not here because her dad’s sick
            -need 3 programming committee members; usually 6; 2-year terms; Sandra Thomas, Jamie Turner already on it;
             Michele (OSU) and Kirsten Davis (UCO) volunteered;
            -program ideas for next fall: RDA on serials (either a primer or maybe not for another year); alt uses of LHR; ILL?;
             national standards (SUSHI, COUNTER, KBART, etc.); [if need filler, I could present on federated search implementation]
           -location: Southeastern, TCCL, ECU

Professional [Corporate] Wikis: Helpful or Dangerous Ground? (slides)
    JJ Compton, Tech Services Lib/Archivist at Oklahoma Christian (find her on Facebook)

            -focus on WorldCat Community experiment
            -closed entity that decides to open for “public” manipulation of data
            -OCLC started in early 09 to allow those with full access login to manipulate all records
            -only lasts 6 months for now (Feb-July)
            -Pros: (OCLC) increased capabilities, sharing, timeliness, etc. (users) fix subject headings and typos, serial information;
             only people in the field can get in
            -Cons: people without much experience or training could change things that are actually correct (the institution symbol is
             then connected); bog down work day if you let it;   incompetent or malicious editing;
            -March stats: over 18,000 replacement; 3 institutions did over 500 each! but 242 did one each (to compare, OCLC staff
             replaced over 1 million in same time period)
            -her opinion: If, not when. Younger libs, esp, are going to be more and more used to manipulating data
            -easier for mass group edits of info; info can reach both larger group and those physically removed from population centers;
             quick, cheap, and simple to use
            -OCLC staff are currently checking the edits (for these 6 mos, anyway)
            -discussion: are the edits just to fix things, or are they editing on OCLC prior to downloading? (changes intent); some have more
             issue with OCLC’s merging of records than with community edits (side conversation on FRBR, RDA); current “wisdom of the crowd”
             movement might be short-lived—not everyone actually knows what they’re doing!; either/or vs both/and; OCLC started as a cooperative
             service, and none of us were all that great when we started—so we’re going back to a more cooperative idea; institution decides the
             authorization levels, not OCLC, so we have to take the onus on ourselves to police ourselves; task force to develop a neutral record
             (LC?) that is using serial fields

Open Journal Systems and the Public Knowledge Project
    Stewart Brower, Director OU-Tulsa Library (& pub and editor of peer-reviewed Communications in Information Literacy)

            -CIL runs on Open Journal System (platform)
            -with Chris Hollister, saw need for a “good” library journal and thought they could do it better; planned over 2 yr;
             easy way=start throwing up web pages; better way=open source platforms
            -call of papers for a journal that doesn’t exist? “that is hard!”
            -single installation of OJS can support an infinite number of journals; web hosting is relatively cheap; PHP-based;
            -running at 35% acceptance rate; have been up for 2 yr so far; currently indexed by all the biggies (DOAJ, EBSCO, Wilson,
             Google Scholar) except ProQuest; in over 200 libraries internationally
            -were lucky because a big InfoLit journal shut down right when they were starting and two of the editors from that moved over to CIL
            -OJS keeps a database of the reviewers, their interests, how many weeks it takes them to review; how many active, etc.
            -he believes that if it’s an all-electronic publication there’s zero reason for page numbers (but they’re in paper too, so…)
            -“we determined we could operate on a budget significantly smaller than Elsevier” (see their website under “support” for their bank
             balance!); use Lulu for printing
            -they’re archived in a LOCKSS-type way, but not through LOCKSS (who needed at least 3yrs of the journal before they’re do it)
            -copyright stays with the authors; OJS recommends Creative Commons for building their copyright statement, which they did use
            -for now, they’re good with two issues per year (it’s a *lot* more work than they realized) and are sticking with that; might one day start
             publishing articles prior to official issue if they’re particularly good, but not yet.
            -issues 3.1 will have comments turned on; must be registered and will be moderated (hadn’t initially asked the authors if it was ok, but
             now it seems like the thing to do)
            -part of Public Knowledge Project, which does other stuff, too, including a conference tracker that does registration, scheduling,
             proceedings, etc.
            -see if it’s in SFX (someone mentioned it’s in Serials Solutions) [yes, through DOAJ]
            -eventually he thinks societies will realize that if they’re going to do it all on volunteer labor anyway (editing, reviewing, etc.) then might as
             well do it all themselves instead of going through a publisher and have to buy it back in the end
            -see his editorial in current issue on why peer review
            -consulted on Jrnl of Library Innovation (hasn’t pub’d first issue yet) and the SUNY-Buffalo student journal

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