Next meeting place: MIPT in Oklahoma City has been offered; TCCL also offered; TCC (Tulsa Community College) offered and accepted.

Topics: 

Ø  Journal publishers “Why they do what they do.” Including pricing, format shifts, inclusion/exclusion in databases. Possible publisher to invited include Sage, Springer, Elsevier, Thompson West (Thompson in general), Wiley, Taylor and Francis. Maybe Ebsco rep. and Cox too as competitor.

Ø  Project Transfer – NASIG and English counterpart to discuss Project Transfer compliance which will handle publication transfers and providing relevant information to libraries. Should be coming online in the fall. Suggestion that this topic be evaluated for Fall meeting in 2009. Also suggested topic for Fall ’09 is SUSHI.

Ø  Also suggested by Junie was a tour of their open journal system to look at the inner workings of putting journals online (with their journal “Communications and Information Literacy”)

Ø  Tulsa suggests virtual journals or digitization projects as possible topic. Vote taken for having digitization as topic and 12 members support this.

SIGALO is also accepting volunteers for the program team.

OCLC passed the new governance structure in May 2008. Governance structure now consists of Members, Regional Councils, Global Council, and Board of Trustees (elected)

3-6 regional councils (tentatively Asia & Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa & Middle East) which elect delegates to the Annual Global council meetings. The Americas are one regional council. This is to bring in more global representation in OCLC. (Amigos voted no; 59-12.)

Global Council will convene annually to elect 6 Board of Trustee members and to ratify amendments, etc. Board of Trustees will have approx. 15 members (13-17), other members will be elected by the Board. President/CEO holds voting seat.

Amigos will not be a member of OCLC anymore. More of a business-to-business relationship. Amigos is not yet sure if they will be distribution OCLC in 2009, but they are working on becoming one of OCLC “certified training partners.”

Amigos update:  funding structure will change in 2009. Summer 2008, Board of Trustees appointed working group to define new funding structure. Recommendations will be sent to the Board in December and Board will vote then. February, the information should be sent to membership and input will be requested. Members will vote in May 2009. They are looking for affordability, value, flexibility, predictability and simplicity.