GNARP Collection Development and Digital Libraries Agenda June 2007
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GNARP Digital Libraries and Collection Development Working Groups - Joint Meeting
Sunday, June 24, 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Columbia C (*not* the Grand Hyatt Washington).
The agenda is as follows:
1. Introductions
2. Approval of minutes (available at http://www.crl.edu/grn/gnarp/index.asp)
3. CRL/ProQuest German Dissertations Project: Austin McLean, ProQuest, will present the Historic German Dissertations database. Please review the database before our meeting to allow for a productive discussion:
URL: http://proquest.umi.com/login/user
Username: 34K8JPJDFH
Password: welcome
I'm including below the original messages sent to the list on Feb. 9, requesting feedback about the pilot.
4. Consortial Acquisitions
5. Newspaper Holdings Wiki: Dick Hacken will present the wiki, permitting members to include their newspapers holdings at http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/German-Language_Newspaper_Access_in_North_America
6. Other
Message sent on Feb.9:
Colleagues,
As discussed during the GNARP Digital Libraries Working Group in Seattle, I'm forwarding updated trial access information to the ProQuest Historic German Dissertations database below.
The database currently includes 40 dissertations in PDF page-image format on German Enlightenment philosophers, published during the 19th Century. Please give these dissertations and the concept of a Historic German Dissertations database careful consideration and share the pilot with your faculty and students.
Your feedback on the following questions would be most helpful:
--Would expanding the database to other subjects provide a helpful service to our users? Which subject areas would benefit most from unlimited access to German historic dissertations? The dissertations will stem primarily from the 19th Century, a time when German scholars were leading in disciplines such as the Classics and the Ancient Near East. Would there be interest in expanding coverage to these disciplines or other fields of inquiry, such as the History of Science, the History of Education, other? Shall we expand the coverage of German Enlightenment titles? Would there be interest in 18th Century dissertations, most of which in Latin? Would institutions have dissertations they may want to see digitized and included in the database? For example, would it be desirable to identify dissertations of individuals--seminal thinkers in any field--whose dissertations may not have been published as a book and that would be important to make available?
--The PDF files currently provide page-images only; would you be interested in capturing and providing access to the full text? Not all dissertations are cataloged; should we complete subject access to the dissertations before loading them into the database?
All of these questions will require cooperation on the financial support of the project and cooperative cataloging.
The database will be presented during our GNARP meeting in Leipzig to inquire about interest in the database in Germany. The database and project will then be discussed at ALA in Washington in June to determine the next steps.
Sebastian Hierl
