Susan Nutter then spoke briefly about the status of NCSU contract arrangements with the American Chemical Society and Marcel Decker.

NC LIVE outreach information was provided by Susan Nutter as the next agenda item. She distributed a spreadsheet with locations helpdesk personnel would be visiting in order to obtain feedback.

The union catalog was the next topic of discussion. Jim Kuhlman said closure needed to be reached as followup to the meeting with ANC of September 26. It seems apparent that a document delivery system must be put in place to accompany any software that is purchased and installed.

At this point Betsy Brown discussed expansion budget requests, as she had to leave to go to another meeting. She distributed the requests formulated by Susan Nutter's committee and said they appear to have high system priority. She suggest our developing peer comparisons of real costs.

Betsy also asked if anybody could microfilm enrollment records, as the State of N.C. archives people said they would not be doing this anymore. Larry Alford said they might be able to do so.

Going back to the budget topic, Vicki Weavil said real costs must include core costs and cannot be just FTE-based. Larry Alford asked if Betsy thought the flexible funding option would be opposed by the new legislature; she couldn't hazzard a guess. Jim Kuhlman and other participants thanked Betsy for the excellent work she had done in preparing the library budget information.

Larry Alford asked Betsy if there had been any update on the fines situation. Susan Nutter asked if the 10% cap could be removed. Betsy did not have any updates. She did state that a 2% reversion is coming, however.

Betsy Brown departed for another meeting and the discussion of a union catalog resumed, with discussion centering on a delivery system.

The current cost of borrowing books among the University System libraries needs to be reviewed. Bil Stahl suggested that a core group study this topic, a task force, so to speak. Mary Reichel said she=d be the ULAC representative. Bil said the charge of this ad hoc committee would be to develop a plan for the delivery system. Bobby Wynn also volunteered to serve on the task force. An interim plan should be ready by the spring meeting, according to Jim Kuhlman. The committee will also include library personnel from UNC CH and East Carolina; their directors will notify these individuals.

The possibility of librarians being included in the proposed six percent raises for faculty that the Office of the President is recommending for the next biennium was next discussed. Betsy Brown said this is for 1310 personnel (teaching faculty), not 1110 administrative staff, where librarians are now classified. Larry Alford recommended moving librarians to the 1300 category.

Jim Kuhlman asked if ULAC is interested in writing a white paper on the librarian shortage, and, if so, who would write it? Carroll Varner suggested deferring the topic to the next meeting and asking the Personnel Committee to bring the topic forward. Mary Reichel suggested that this committee also provide an update on the review of classified positions.

Jim Kuhlman next addressed the question of how ULAC organizes "for tech development and transfer." This was a followup to the September 26 joint meeting with ANC personnel. It was noted that Tom Warner of the Office of the President had offered to pass on information but could not help with the technology transfer; Journal Finder was an example of a technology transfer project that was mentioned. Jim posed the questions: Can we figure out a way to collaborate on technology? Do we as ULAC want to be more collaborative in developing technologies, not just sharing what has been developed?

Mary Reichel mentioned letting ANC discuss the matter. Sherman Hayes stated that we already have some cooperative groups in place. Carroll Varner said that we don't do this, that it goes to somewhere bigger like Solinet. Mary suggested having a brainstorming session at the May meeting; Jim agreed.

Mae Rodney posed a question about whether it was more feasible to purchase or lease microform reader/printers. The general consensus was leasing due to the expense of purchasing the equipment, plus it changes and improves as time passes.

Future meetings were discussed as the last agenda items. It was agreed that we'd like a May meeting; May 22-23 were proposed as possible dates. The suggested winter meeting date was February 28, possibly in Greensboro.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:45 PM.

Elinor Folger Foster

November 26, 2002