Jim Bracken

• Current LRN continuations budget: $2 million (late summer) compared with $1.6 million in early 2009
• Total acquisitions budget $8.2 million (fiscal 2009); $9.7 million (fiscal 2010); For fiscal 2011 we must anticipate $10.7 million will be needed
• Reductions in the acquisitions budget may be needed
• Ohiolink still considering future payment increases; We still do not know what OSU will need to pay OL for 2010, but it will probably be $3.5-3.8 million. OL payments represent 75% of the LRN budget
• LRN should be examined for cancellations

Danny Dotson

• reviewed issues related to future examination of the non-Ohiolink LRN subscriptions to determine what can be transferred to other funds or cancelled
• LRN database list will be on the J: drive. Examine the spread sheet for what the library needs to retain and what is no longer necessary or is little used
• the survey about LRN content had a 50% response rate

Tschera Connell

• Knowledge Bank has 60 "communities" with 41,000 items
• Reviewed content and content types; KB workflow; KB presentations and consultations with users
• Working on a "tool kit" and slide presentation for promotions and statistical reports on usage

Dona Straley

• Role of the 5 depositories in building and preserving Ohiolink collections; 13 libraries participate
• reviewed background of the depositories which now have approximately 8 million items collectively. Nine million is the capacity.
• project to dedup across the five depositories
• depository contents will be owned collectively by Ohiolink except for special collections and these; governed by a board
• Deans and directors considering the proposal and then it will be considered by legal
• Access to depository titles may be slower for OSU patrons compared with now but an attempt will be made to program the joint depository catalog to send local copies first.

Respectfully submitted by David Lincove

The next Collection Managers Forum will be in February 2010.