Today I had the privilege of attending an IU Libraries Collection Developer's meeting. Because of the time of the year, the primary concern was budgets, as each library needs to be sure to /spend/ their budget, but not /overspend/. Discussion on how to do this occurred, and it was interesting to hear the different strategies of the different departments, especially in regards to materials. Departments were told if they wanted to make any "big ticket item" purchases that now was the time.
The next big topic was DDA (or Demand Driven Acquisitions). From the pilot project of this, for which was a $40,000 budget, $5,000 was spent. This is going to be discussed at the next CIC (consortium) meeting.
There was a report on the Provost Forum, from which they have had a few meetings with individual libraries and their respective departments. The topic of the relationships there will be continued with faculty involvement. The future of academic libraries was also discussed, and hopefully we can continue to understand and work together with the departments to remain relevant and pertinent.
They also discussed using the ALF (Auxillery Library Facility) as a shared print repository for the CIC, and how they are hammering out procedures and policies. It will just be journals at this time. The collections workgroup recommended first set of deposits be such, and that they change the WorldCat locations to CIC Shared Repository. It will consist of 250,000 volumes when complete. IU will house half of this.
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