I. Called to order at 12:35 PM.

Present: Mark Bernstein, Chair; Anne Klinefelter, Vice-Chair; Bill Beintema, Treasurer; Sally Wise, Member-at-Large (2001-2003); Pam Deemer, Member-at-Large (2002-2004); Pauline Aranas, Past Chair; Karen Douglas, Secretary.

II. Announcements

Pauline Aranas, Past Chair (2001-2003) announced that she is leaving Vanderbilt University to accept a position at UCLA. The Past Chair position on the Board will be vacant until the spring. The Nominations Committee will select candidates to run for Vice-Chair-Chair-Elect.

III. Minutes

The minutes of the April 11, 2002 Board meeting, as posted on the COSELL website, were approved.

IV. Treasurer's Report: Bill Beintema

Bill distributed an Interim Treasurer's Statement. The balance on April 10, 2002 was $3381.00. Dues provided an income of $120.00. There were no expenses reported. As of July 19, 2002 there is $3501.00 in the Treasury.

V. Membership Report: Bill Beintema

As of July 19 2002 we have 49 members in COSELL . 46 members have paid their dues for 2002. University of Puerto Rico has joined COSELL.

VI. Old and Continuing Business

BNA electronic sources pricing. - COSELL was waiting to see what NELLCO was going to do . Tracy Thompson of NELLCO spoke at the ALL-SIS Directors breakfast in Orlando. After several postponements, NELLCO finally met with BNA. They were informed by BNA that 30% of the schools (60) had already signed up. Not much has changed in the directors' positions on this issue. Sally Wise will look further into this issue and provide more information. Many COSELL libraries still appear to be holding off on making agreements with BNA.

Archiving State Primary Sources - Anne and Mark are working on preliminary plans for this project. They will work out a model using North Carolina as an example for other states to follow. This will be ready for the next COSELL meeting. The model should include detailed information about primary materials; such as case reports, rules, regulations, etc. Other considerations are: what should the access policy be? Should photocopy service be provided?. Further information on this project should be available by the December/January conference call.

VII. New Business

Yankee Book Peddler Contract - The current contract expires in June, 2003. Mark Kendall is the new representative for Yankee. Board members agreed that we should try to get more libraries to use Yankee and possibly request a deeper discount. We discussed whether we wanted to seek competitive bids from other vendors. It was suggested that we poll the membership to see if they wanted to keep Yankee. We should also remind library directors to check with their Acquisitions librarians for feedback before responding to the poll.

We need to begin thinking about appointments for a nominating committee for the Fall. Former members of the COSELL board would be preferred.

VIII. Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 1:43 PM.

Karen Douglas, Secretary.

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