COSELL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
MINUTES
Washington, D.C.
July 20, 1999

I.         Call to order at 12:55 p.m.

Present:  Pauline Aranas, Rosalie Sanderson, Nancy Strohmeyer, Mary Lou Corbett, Anne Klinefelter, Mark Bernstein, Rebecca Trammell.  Absent: Bill Beintema.

II.        Announcements

None.

III.       Minutes

Passed.

IV.      Treasurer's Report:Bill Beintema (received via email.)

As of this date, we have $2,693.39 in the treasury.  The expenses incurred since the last report include:  a check charge of $36.60, AALL meeting room charge of $100, Post Office Box Rental for 3/1/99 through 2/28/00 at $31, the 1999 State of Florida corporate filing fee of $61.25, a donation to SEAALL for Institute support of $1,000, and a donation to SEAALL for Newsletter support $100.

V.       Membership Report

None.

VI.       Old and Continuing Business

A.       Consortium‑Vendor Agreements

YPB and Baker & Taylor have merged.  Bob Nardini promises that there will be no change to COSELL=s agreement with YPB.  There were rumors that prices were being increased before our discount was given, but this has been proven untrue.  Some invoices included binding charges.

CIS B Pauline believes invoicing problems have all been straightened out.  Mary Lou said that Wake Forest was getting CIS through Solinet, not COSELL=s consortium.  CIS is trying to separate the subscriptions of law libraries and university libraries.  Pauline explained that CIS wants to bill all of the consortium=s subscriptions to one location instead of to each library individually.  This raises important issues which are still under discussion with CIS.

B.       COSELL Web Site

The Board of Directors page was updated following the election of new members.  Pauline is considering maintenance issues, such as how long to keep minutes on the site before archiving them.

C.       SEAALL Annual Meeting Support

In continuing our wish to support SEAALL in gratitude for their support of COSELL, another $100 was approved this year for the Newsletter.  Mary Lou is on the 2000 SEAALL Program Committee, so she will be the Board=s liaison to that Committee.

VII.      New Business

A.       Round Tables 1999 Reports

Rosalie did not receive the Public Services report.  The Board discussed the points raised by the Round Table reports.  It may be good to add a Collection Development Round Table.  This group could include Technical and Public Services librarians.  There was discussion regarding the usefulness of the straight Public Services and Technical Services Round Tables as they now exist.  Perhaps it would be more effective to do Round Tables based on specific subjects, such as document delivery, web pages, and teaching legal research.  These could be added to the three existing Round Tables, or they could be developed as the focus subjects for the meetings.

B.       AALL Consortium Report: Pauline Aranas

Pauline attended the Consortium of Consortia luncheon at AALL.  She had to leave before the meeting began, so she had no report.

C.       COSELL Members Communication Mechanisms

Each member library=s director is the COSELL link for communication currently.  In an effort to expand this communication base, Pauline suggested that the COSELL web page could be used to communicate and pass information to all interested librarians in member libraries.  We could also make announcements on the various listservs to highlight new information available on the web site, like press releases.  Anne will check to see if our web page includes chat room possibilities.

VIII.     Next Meeting

Conference Call in December.

IX.      Adjournment

2:05 p.m.

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reformatted Tuesday 27-Nov-2001 16:59