Trisha Davis: eReserves and Copyright Help Center Services

The first person on the agenda was Trish Davis. She summarized presentations she offers to instructors and researchers about copyright issues, accompanied by handouts of the Powerpoint slides she uses to illustrate these talks. The talks cover four basic topics. The first is simple basic definitions of copyright: many faculty have misconceptions of copyright and the copyright laws or simply do not know the laws. She then explained what fair use means. Placing materials on electronic reserve for student use would be considered an academic use. This is in favor of fair use. Next she talked about an author’s bundle of 5 rights: the right to reproduce, the right to prepare derivative works, the right to distribute, the right to display publicly, and the right to perform publicly. She concluded with discussion of eReserves on Carmen and asked us to publicize two phone numbers where faculty can get help with any questions: 688-5849 (Copyright Help Center) and 292-6448 (Electronic Reserves Office). Be sure to tell faculty that the electronic reserves office operates on a first come, first serve basis for mounting articles on Carmen.

Celeste Feather: New Tools to Help Subject Specialists Switch to Electronic Journals

Next Celeste Feather discussed "new ways" to help collection managers add or make the switch to electronic versions of journals. Ebsco and Swets subscription agencies will be alerting us about journals which have newly electronic available versions. This is for Ebsco and Swets journals only. For other journals, other tools are required. Celeste will make it possible for collection managers to search the Serials Solutions database.

Jennifer Kuehn: Correcting Local Holdings Info in WorldCat

Jennifer Kuehn discussed serial holdings on WorldCat. We should check our holdings against the WorldCat record to make sure OCLC has correct information. In the future we may see unmediated borrowing of articles through Illiad from OCLC, and accurate holdings information will help users make requests.

Marsha Hamilton: Avoiding Scams and Frauds

Marsha Hamilton discussed recent scams we may be encountering such as the Nigerian one. Some of them are the Directory scam, Phishing scam, Prepay request, or even Amazon Market Place. Scams can come in over the phone, often after-hours when students are likely to answer. She went into great length about how clever these people are. Bottom line: we never have the authority to buy anything without going through acquisitions. We should pass any suspicious looking information by Marsha. We should make sure that staff and students are aware of the possibility of scams and how to avoid them.

Marsha Hamilton: Allocation of Funds by Subject Area

Lastly, Marsha distributed a table comparing the Budget Allocation and funding formulae for OSU and OSUL. She explained how the numbers had been produced, as well as examples of complications and specific circumstances that skew certain figures.

The meeting was adjourned at Noon.

Respectfully submitted by Meri Meredith

The next Collection Managers Forum will be April 18, 2007 in SEL 090 at 10:30AM.