Collections Management Activity Report

April 2003

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Budget/Finance

·        Year end close completed April 8 and year end financial reports generated

·        Moninder added new fund codes to III and associated reports for 03/04 fiscal year

·        Year-end serials lists for web were generated by Systems; Moninder began checking and corrections; to be finished and posted in May

·        Moninder and Sue Digney clarified GST charging policy with Bernan, and pursued possible GST rebate

Access and Resources

Don Taylor handled 122 e-journals during April

·        106 new e-journals enabled

·        9 e-journals with access problems

·        7 e-journals deleted

·        Baywood publishing print titles became available online in March/April; SFU’s titles were added to the EJDB

·        80 OCLC Electronic Collections Online journals, formerly only accessible at Surrey, are now accessible to all of SFU after successful resolution of some access problems.  Most of these are no longer current, but all SFU patrons will equal have access to a few years of backfiles.

·        Researched possibilities for access to Enviroline in the wake of its disappearance from Lexis/Nexis, and set up a trial.

·        Gwen worked with Leslie to come up with options for SFU Library to join COPPUL deal for BioOne journals.

·        Worked with Perce to trial and evaluate International ERIC as a possible alternative to some print indexes.

·        Provided pricing and analysis of Sage e-journals collection, at the request of Sociology/Anthropology

New Journal Price Queries  

Computer Science –  4 new

New Journals

Geography – 1

Biology – added 1 new online access to print

REM – 1 new online
 
Meetings and Vendors/Publishers Activity

Gwen, Moninder, Mary and Don met with Graham Yates from Swets Blackwell to discuss service issues and industry trends.

Course assessments/Reviews

Gwen and Gordon met with the external reviewers for Engineering Science and provided a report on behalf of the Library.

Course assessments for 

Political Science/Latin American Studies 450

Business Administration 759

Communications 857 & 858

Other

·        Don attended a series of Library meetings on the video transition, including: meeting with concerned faculty; workflow; cataloguing and labeling. Don also visited the Centre for Educational Technology in the Faculty of Education to learn more about their specialized video collection.

·        Don received 17 new video requests in April.

·        Don participated in a meeting with SFU bookstore staff to work toward making course pack information from e-journal licenses available online to the custom courseware people.

·        Gwen attended meetings of the Negotiations Resource Team for the Canadian National Site Licensing Project in Ottawa (April 1-2) and Montreal (April 29-30).  Solicited and presented feedback on first round licenses from COPPUL libraries, including SFU.

·        Moninder coordinated a visit to the Library by the New High Commissioner from India to Canada, and SIETAR BC and Library Diversity Working Group guest speaker events on “Sikhs in Canada.”

·        Gwen and Moninder attended the training offered by Mark Bodnar on the new Lexis/Nexis interface.

·        Moninder coordinated a team/response on behalf of the SFU Diversity Working Group, for the SFU Task Force on Academic Honesty and Integrity.