ACRL/NEC Serials Interest Group
2000/2001 Annual Report

Submitted by Patty Hatch, ACRL/NEC SIG Chair

• Membership

The current membership of the Serials Interest group is 219 members. The group increased by 21 members in 2000/2001.

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• Planning Committee

The ACRL/NEC SIG Planning Committee consisted of Patty Hatch, Chair, Training and Documentation Specialist, Harvard University Library Office of Information Systems, Rebecca Breedlove, Head of Acquisitions, Healey Library, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Joseph Gabriel, Head of Technical Services, Gutman Library, Harvard University.

The Planning Committee met four times during 2000/2001. The group focused on three topics:

• Planning and running the Fall 2000 Program.
• Revising the ACRL/NEC Serials Interest Group Web Site.
• Transferring the membership database from an outdated system to Microsoft Access.

Once again, my planning committee members came through and put together a magnificent Fall program. I am grateful for their continued guidance and support.

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• Fall 2000 Program

  The Fall 2000 Program was entitled "The Road that May be Taken: Identifying Trends in Technical Processing." The event was held on Friday, October 20, 2000 at the Gutman Education Center at Harvard University. 97 individuals attended the event. The program included five speakers:

  • Rebecca Breedlove, Head of Acquisitions, Healey Library, University of Massachusetts at Boston
  • Dr. Laverna Saunders, Dean, Library Administration, Salem State College Library
  • Don Jaeger, President and CEO, Alfred Jaeger, Inc.
  • Kimberly Parker, Electronic Publishing & Collections Specialist, Yale University
  • Jill G. Thomas, Digital Resources Cataloger, O'Neill Library, Boston College, Boston, MA
  • Mike Markwith, Vice President of Sales, Swets-Blackwell USA

  Rebecca discussed the ILS conversion that took place at UMass Boston and its impact on collections. Laverna discussed the impact of technology on librarians and ways to copy. Don Jaeger discussed the impact of electronic journals on periodical backfile dealers. Kim Parker discussed the collection management aspects of the JAKE, and electronic portal resource and Mike Marshall discussed the impact of mergers and acquisitions in the serials jobbers industry.

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• ACRL/NEC SIG Web Site Revision

Throughout the spring, the ACRL/NEC Serials Interest Group Web Site revised the web site for the interest group. The URL for the web site is http://www.hatchresources.com/acrlsig/. The site includes the following: information about the SIG, program summaries, planning committee activities, links to serials and technical services sites on the Internet, forms for joining the SIG, confirming your mailing address, and providing feedback.

The planning committee set the following guidelines for the Web site:

• The site will be updated at least once every quarter
• Maintenance of the site will be shared amongst SIG planning committee members
• Feedback will be collected and reported to the ACRL/NEC Board as part of Board reports.

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5.   Database Update

The group also undertook the task of transferring membership information from an old database system into Microsoft Access. This will allow more flexibility in the database and it will be easier to maintain the data.

I am pleased that the Serials Interest Group had another successful year. I am looking forward to continuing my role as chair and to bringing informative programs to our members.

This annual report can be found at http://www.hatchresources.com/acrlsig/annrpt00.htm.

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