PACSLAV Meeting Minutes, November 2003
PACSLAV Meeting
November 22, 2003
Toronto, Canada
Present: Karen Rondestvedt, (Chair); Michael Biggins, Diana Brooking,
Mischa Buczkowski, Beth Feinberg (Recorder), Michael Markiw, Allan Urbanic
The meeting began at 4:30 p.m.
Minutes from the 2002 meeting were approved as amended.
Reports:
Berkeley: Berkeley received Title 6 funding from its Institute of Slavic,
East European and Eurasian Studies, to be used for acquisitions and student
staffing. They can also put funding to group or unilateral purchases of
consortial interest. Faculty and programs are the same, and there is now
more interest in Armenia and the Caucasus. The library has hired a
permanent exchange specialist for Slavic, a Russian émigré, who will help
to get new material.
University of Washington: Washington has received NRC funding for the next
three year period. The Slavic department added two faculty members who
specialize in 20th century Russian literature; one with an interest in
post-Soviet literature and film, the other in the Silver Age and Jewish
studies. Estonian collections are going to be built up. They have also had
a cut in the serials budget; hopefully there won’t be another until 2005.
The budget cut was 2.5 percent, but can grow over the next two years. The
GIS database is now more functional, and includes election tabulation and
indicators.
Oregon: The budget situation is serious; there was about a 5% cut, but they
didn’t have to cut any Slavic titles. There are now a record number of
Russian studies students, and the Slavic department added a new faculty
member who specializes in 20th century Russian literature. The library lost
its Slavic copy cataloger.
Stanford: Title 6 funding was renewed. The Center for East European and
Eurasian Studies funded money for cataloging and processing. There is a new
assistant professor who specializes in Central Asia during the Imperial
period. There are two new faculty in the Art History department, with
interests in Byzantine and Russian art. A new storage facility will open
soon, and this can be used for Hoover material. There was a 4% cut for
Green library, but none for Hoover.
Arizona State: The library has had some restructuring. They are developing
collections for Polish and Armenian. The budget is not very good; firm
orders are made by faculty request, but approval plans are alright. There
have also been serials cancellations.
UCLA: The budget situation is difficult; the library sustained a 7% overall
cut, and also had to fund an online catalog conversion. Leon Ferder
currently works a 60% schedule. Faculty and programs are the same. UCLA has
a new University Librarian, Gary Strong, who is very involved in
international librarianship; this may be positive for area studies.
East View's electronic version of Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei and parts of
the Russian National Bibliography:
Stanford, Washington and UCLA have done a trial of the product. If CDL does
not purchase the product, PACSLAV can negotiate arrangements. As the print
version is not used much anymore, it is worth purchasing an online version.
Karina could figure out the cost of print for each member and give a rate
to the group, which might be $700-$800 per institution. This would also
help non-CDL libraries from having to buy INION. Allan will ask Eastview
about group options.
Duplicate exchange:
The group is satisfied with the duplicate exchange. Oregon would like South
Balkan materials and anything about the Old Believers. UCLA and Stanford
would like older South Slavic materials; Arizona State would like all
Slavic languages. Stanford would like publications from before 1960. There
are now a lot of duplicates from Hoover. Karen will send our group
materials printed before 1960, and will offer materials from 1960-1990 over
Slavlibs.
Union list of large microform sets:
Allan printed out the list from the PACSLAV website; we need to tighten up
bibliographic entries for titles. Michael Biggins offered to put in
specific titles; Allan has more titles to add to list. The group agreed
that this list is helpful, we don’t end up duplicating purchases. Diana
Brooking offered to look at proper titles for the entries.
Union list of newspapers currently received in newsprint:
Michael Biggins offered to collect lists of newsprint and microfilm added
since the last update.
PACSLAV website:
The group agreed that:
1. It can’t maintain the Union list of serials.
2. The cataloging survey should be moved off of the mainpage. 3. Members can send in notices of new significant acquisitions; it is not
too much work to maintain such a list; it should be a consortial list of
more current acquisitions. Older materials can be moved off over time. 4. The group could put up a more current list of special projects. The
Pamiatnye Knizhki project is complete, and RAS Online can be changed to be
a link on another page.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Beth Feinberg