Janus Challenge #1: RECON
This challenge was initially framed in terms of a collective effort to comprehensively digitize print publications through an aggressive and coordinated redeployment of local materials budgets. Large-scale digitizing initiatives by Google, the Open Content Alliance, the European Union, and other groups have since arisen or further developed. Some previously […]
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:13:30 -0500
From: “Shreeves, Edward”
Whither Recon?
Not much has moved forward with the Recon challenge since the annual
conference and the work done at the end of 2005 immediately following
the Janus Conference. Finding a mutually convenient time for a
conference call seems futile, so Dan and I would like to get some
discussion going […]
Presentation and open discussion of the Janus Conference key challenges from the Chief Collection Development Officers (CCDO) of Large Research libraries
Discussion Group ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, Saturday, January 21, 2006
Challenge 6 Alternative Channels of Scholarly Communication: Action Report
Margaret Landesman (Utah)
The group believes there is not a clear direction at this time. The challenge paragraph will be rewritten to tease out the issues. There was discussion about successful local efforts, but there seem to be fewer successful national efforts. The group believes that […]
Challenge 5 Archiving: Action Report
Karen Schmidt (Illinois)
Next Steps: Karen Schmidt and Melissa Trevvett will co-chair this working group. Members of the Working Group are:
The group plans to revise the statement that addresses the challenge, bring it to the New Orleans ALA meeting, and then agree on the next steps in this […]
Challenge 4 Licensing Principles: Action Report
Charles Spetland (Minnesota)
The group discussed the idea of issuing a national cite license or an RFP. Representatives from regional consortia could look at available models. Libraries also need to be insistent with publishers about disclosure; the group will act on CLIR’s offer to post model licenses for national review.
Challenge 3 Core Collection: Action Report
Thomas Izbicki (Johns Hopkins)
The group does not have a single agenda to report at this time. Does the existing data from approval vendors support a commonality? Also, the group believes serials should be considered as well because most institutions spend 75% of material dollars on serials. More […]
Janus Challenge 4
Licensing Principles (AKA Publisher Relations)
Breakout discussion at ALA Midwinter CCDO meeting
January 21, 2006
Proponent Group Participants:
Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library), Ivy.Anderson@ucop.edu
Susan Barribeau (Wisconsin), sbarribeau@library.wisc.edu
John Ingram (Florida), jeingr@uflib.ufl.edu
John Saylor (Cornell), jms1@cornell.edu
Charles Spetland, convenor (Minnesota), c-spet@umn.edu
Jim Stemper (Minnesota), stemp003@umn.edu
Challenge 4 Licensing Principles: Action Report
The original Janus statement #4 was entitled “Publisher relations.” The original […]
Challenge 2 PROCON: Action Report
Stephen Bosch (Arizona)
The group decided that it is unreasonable to expect that all materials will be issued in digital form by 2008. Because most commercial journal publishers are already issuing their content electronically, these materials need not be considered in this challenge. The more problematic areas are the professional and small […]
Challenge 1 RECON: Action Report
Edward Shreeves (Iowa)
The Recon group suggests hosting a meeting(s) in the near future to bring together the appropriate people and entities of expertise (ARL, LC, CRL, CLIR, CFL, etc) to:
1. look at the concept to see if it is still viable and practical;
2. look at an actual structure for managing a […]