TexShare Electronic Information
Working Group
Meeting Notes, 3/21/2000
Attendance: Deborah Littrell
(TexShare Coordinator); Tommie Wingfied, Chair; Jennifer Duncan
for Marianne Bobich; Tracy Cuellar; Jane Dillon; Don Dowdey;
Robert Gaines; Linda Levy; Alice Nixon; Elizabeth Norman;
Todd Peters; Sue Phillips; Janis Test; Syma Zerkow; Beverley
Shirley; Rue Ramirez (guest); Mark McFarland (guest);
Outcomes:
Make recommendations on how we
finish up the biennium (Identify and rank products for renewal
and purchase)
Set direction for the future
(The role of the Electronic Information Working Group (EIWG)
within the context of TexShare vision and strategic planning)
Decisions:
It is acceptable to purchase
e-books through NetLibrary should funds become available in
the form of a TIF grant.
Continue negotiations with Gale
on Option E, Statewide access to Health Reference Center Academic,
Gale Literature Databases, Discovering Science, Info Trac
Newspapers and Texas Almanac
Request information on upgrading
Gale Option E to include Literature Resource Center in place
of Literary Databases
Request information on adding
What Do I Read Next to Gale Option E
Request information on History
Resource Center, Biography Resource Center, or Associations
Unlimited.
Proceed with a statewide trial
of Health Reference Center Academic
Request statewide trial of InfoTrak
newspapers (Texas)
Request a trial for academic
libraries of the Literature Databases
Proceed with a statewide trial
of Ebsco HealthSource Plus
If negotiations on Gale Option
E and/or Ebsco HealthSource Plus fall through, transfer TexSelect
products CINAHL, Books In Print, MLA Bibliography to Core
selections.
If there is TIF money available
beyond what is required to purchase NetLibrary and if Option
E has already been contracted with TexShare/TSEL money, use
the additional TIF money to , transfer TexSelect products
CINAHL, Books In Print, MLA Bibliography to Core selections.
Upgrade from MasterFile Elite
to MasterFile Premier for public libraries.
The TexSelect Gale discount should
be offered again this year
Request pricing on ERS Select
as a TexSelect offering.
ATLA may make a good TexSelect
product next year. It should be revisited then.
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