FCLSC meeting reminder and Questions from Professor Donald Mastronarde
by Lesage, Rhea Karabelas
Dear Colleagues,
A reminder that the FCLSC annual meeting will take place on Saturday, January 5, 2019, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm in the Cardiff Room at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina. We are still working on the agenda and will send it out early next week. I will be attending the meeting virtually and have made arrangements for a screen and projector so others who can't go to the conference can join in as well. Please let me know as soon as possible if you would like to attend virtually, since we'll be using Google Hangouts and there is a limit of nine simultaneous users. We are investigating other options should the response be over limit.
Also, please take a moment and reply to SCS Executive Director Helen Cullyer helen.cullyer(a)nyu.edu<mailto:helen.cullyer@nyu.edu> and Professor Donald Mastronarde djmastronarde(a)berkeley.edu<mailto:djmastronarde@berkeley.edu> He has kindly extended the deadline to Friday December 21st which will still allow time to report back to SCS. For more information see the memo at the end of this email.
1. Who decides on what database resources are ordered through the library (or separately from the library, if also applicable)?
2. What funds are drawn upon to pay subscriptions or one-time purchases? Library acquisition funds, departmental funds, others?
3. To the extent that Library acquisition funds are used, how does this impact acquisition of journals and books?
4. Are there resources you want but cannot afford?
Thank you and best wishes for the season!
Rhea Lesage (FCLSC Chair 2017-2019)
To: Classics Department Chairs and Classics Librarians/Selectors
In response to a request from an SCS member at a state university for comparative information, and for its own purposes, the SCS Division of Research and Publications would like to gather some information about how institutions fund their access to digital resources such as Brepolis' databases (including L'Année Philologique), the TLG, Loeb Classical Library, resources hosted by Brill, etc.
We are sending this request both to department chairs and to Classics librarians because different persons will have the answers to different questions at different institutions.
You may send your response as a single paragraph, if you wish, and responses should be sent to djmastronarde(a)berkeley.edu. Please address as many of the following points as pertain to your situation and feel free to add any other comments you believe to be relevant. A summary of the results will be shared with those who respond.
Who decides on what database resources are ordered through the library (or separately from the library, if also applicable)?
What funds are drawn upon to pay subscriptions or one-time purchases? Library acquisition funds, departmental funds, others?
To the extent that Library acquisition funds are used, how does this impact acquisition of journals and books?
Are there resources you want but cannot afford?
We would appreciate responses by December 14.
Many thanks,
Helen Cullyer
Donald J. Mastronarde
