To the SRT members:
As promised, I am posting to the List the minutes of the Serials Round
Table/Serials Problems Discussion Group that took place at ARLIS/NA St.
Louis. See text below my signature.
Lilah
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Lilah J. Mittelstaedt
Reference Librarian
Philadelphia Museum of Art
P.O. Box 7646
Philadelphia, PA 19101
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Ph: (215)684-7652
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Serials Round Table/Serials Problems Discussion Group
Patricia Siska, Frick Art Reference Library, Coordinator
Cara List, University of Oregon, Co-Coordinator
Sunday, March 24, 2002
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Minutes
Patricia Siska opened the meeting with a welcome which was followed by
introductions of those present. Gisele Guay, Canadian Centre for
Architecture, was announced as continuing editor of the Update column.
Board representative Kay Tiel, Stanford University, defined the new
movement away from session sponsorship for next year's conference to a
more open format where anyone can present a session. The reminder of
the May 1st deadline accompanied these comments.
The next agenda item was a brief review of the previously held seminar
at this conference on online journals entitled "Negotiating Power:
Online journals and the art librarian". Cara List stated that the
motivating factor for putting this seminar together was the fact that
online journals have not proliferated in art and architecture as in
other fields of study. It was noted that of those e-journals that do
exist, many still do not have images. Charlie Bauer of OHIOLINK
approached the problem in his presentation as a sceptic wondering if
there really is a problem with images, the common problem encountered
when publishers choose the format. Ron Miller of H W Wilson mentioned
in his presentation that of the 120 full text journals available, 26
have images. The question was posed to the SRT attendees of whether
something else could be done to help solve the problem of permissions
for using images. Someone brought up the possibility that ARLIS/NA
should be a bigger voice to the publishers. Also, the pursuit of
permissions from Museums concerning back issues was mentioned. Cara
List stated JSTOR involvement in the bundling of back issues and
presenting them to institutions for purchase.
Serials swapping on ARLIS-L was revisited as a problem for some
members. Evidently the digest version of the List shows all spaces and
returns which take up more space. The posting of these lists on
individual library's web sites was proposed, however, it was thought of
as a less savvy method to reach the List members who regularly benefit
from the online swaps. Management of these lists either as an entity of
the ARLIS/NA web site or a separate listserv was suggested as a problem
the group was unwilling to pursue. The commitment of a moderator to
such a list was considered too great of an undertaking. The only
solution presented was to offer the title lists in a concise text-based
format rather than html to eliminate unnecessary spaces and returns.
After defining the roll of the Coordinator and Co-coordinator as those
propositioning sessions and writing reports to the Board, Cara List
became next year's Coordinator and Nathaniel Feis, Art Institute of
Chicago, volunteered to be Co-coordinator. In addition to these
business affairs, the issue of the SRT Archive was brought up. It was
stated that the Archive should remain at Head Quarters but any useful
material could be copied and passed along from Coordinator to
Coordinator.
It was noted that the ARLIS/NA Web site page includes a list of
E-journals. By clicking from the Contents page on the Art Information
Resources on the Web link, users can find first the ARLIS/NA Guide to
the World Wide Web and then E-Journals in Art, Architecture, and Allied
Disciplines. The direct web address is
http://www.arlisna.org/journals.html. In the past, Jonathan Franklin of
Toronto maintained this list but no one could identify the current
editor. Cara List offered to contact Jonathan Franklin and to e-mail
SRT participants concerning any ideas for reorganizing or recategorizing
the list by table of contents vs. full text. Joy Kestenbaum, Pratt
Institute, also noted as her responsibilities in the Collection
Development Committee that she and Paula Gabbard, Columbia University,
will be posting an out-of-print dealer list for dealers worldwide
including contact information.
Member projects were then announced. Lilah J. Mittelstaedt,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, wrote a chapter on Periodicals, Abstracts
and Indexes in the K. G. Saur publication "Information Sources in Art,
Art History and Design", 2001. Alexandra DeLuise, Queens College, is in
the beginning stages of a writing about aggregators and e-journals.
Although next year's conference does not require sponsorship to
sessions, Evalyn Stone, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nathaniel Feis
agreed to work on a proposal concerning unique cataloging problems for
non-traditional formats or multiple formats. The possible title "The
Brave New World of Serials" will also address management issues.
Suggested format was an informal Open Forum and ideas for speakers are
welcome.
Evalyn Stone announced North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and
the SERIALS-L as other avenues to pursue for tackling serials problems.
Kay Downey, Cleveland Museum of Art, suggested we further discuss
e-journals at next years SRT meeting.
Closing comments included the need for longer meeting period next year
and posting the minutes of the meeting to ARLIS-L.
Respectfully submitted by,
Lilah J. Mittelstaedt
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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