Nothing new on YPB. It is being heavily used, and was renewed for a five year period last year.

CIS – Kentucky just started using the CIS materials. Rosalie spoke with Scott Eller about consortium pricing. It will continue next year. CIS will separately invoice for the Congressional Universe materials, and will grandfather COSELL in. NELLCO had been told that there is no more consortium pricing. NELLCO received a better price on the Universe, but did not get the 50% discount on the paper index and were required to buy the paper. Anne said Miami was negotiating for whole university, but Rosalie said CIS says that is not correct, that they are not including law schools in university pricing. Officially, CIS says law schools are not eligible for consortium pricing. Tennessee and Emory also thought they were negotiating campus wide contracts. Bill says he can renew if the law school is not included. He thought the law school and main library offerings differed, that law school got the entire Universe and the main library did not.

Four positions need to be elected, Chair, Vice-Chair, and two Members at Large. Rosalie Sanderson will move to Past Chair, and Marguerite Most, Herb Cihak, and Deborah Mayo Jefferies terms are ending. We must set up a nominating committee, which cannot include current Board members. Suggestions were made for the committee. Past Board members were considered because they know what is expected in the jobs. Election dates are in Article 5 of the Bylaws.

The Home Page will remain at UNC even though Marguerite Most is no longer in COSELL. Marguerite had told Rosalie that Rob Vreeland is happy to maintain the page at UNC. Rosalie will speak with Rob directly, as well as to Lolly Gasaway, to ensure that UNC is still willing to host the page.

State practice guides (new business agenda item) are included on many sites. Rosalie thought links to these on our page would be a good idea. Anne suggested that Rob Vreeland could oversee this with the help of people who would contact people in various states. Rosalie will ask him.

We have 42 members now.

These look very good on the web site. Herb said he can do another mailing to get other libraries to participate. Rosalie thought it could also be included in the election mailing. Maybe with a sample of the two methods organization of the information.

Rosalie says the Institute on Thursday will be on training the trainers. This idea sprang from the round tables. Bill gave an outline of the topics accepted for the meeting.

Anne said she and a group of webmasters met on this project. A suggestion was made that COSELL should look at developing a template for research sites on each school’s web page. The working group found that institutions generally did not wish to conform to a template and give up their control of their pages. They suggested that COSELL include a page on its web page for state research sites instead. This did not really address the original idea. This other idea would take a great deal of work, which would likely be difficult for COSELL. Other suggestions included creating a listserv for webmasters to discuss this type of idea. Anne did not believe that the template idea was going to take off. The listserv would be something that we could do fairly easily. Rosalie asked Anne to write a summary of the discussions of her working group and distribute it to the Board. She thinks that the people who may be interested in the template would be schools with less developed web pages. Rosalie suggested bringing it before the Business meeting, perhaps with discussion at the technology round table meeting before the business meeting. Bill also thought the page on the COSELL page would be a good idea.

Anne will suggest options to consider regarding the State Internet Cooperative Project, including the listserv for COSELL webmasters and a template for indexing state legal resources.

Suggestions were made for possible chair choices for the three Round Tables, Technology, Public, and Electronic. Rosalie will contact those people or others.