Charge to Heads of Resource Management for Working Group on Consortial Ebooks Purchase

Charge to Heads of Resource Management for Working Group on Consortial Ebooks Purchase

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee Charge

Charge: The BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee (RMC) is responsible for establishing goals and making recommendations to the BLC Board of Directors regarding information resource issues that the committee raises or that the Board assigns to the Committee. Types of projects assigned by the Board may include:

  • Collection development, management and assessment projects and policies involving the consortium or a subset of its members in ways that encourage cooperative purchasing and facilitate the notion of shared collections
  • Work with appropriate vendors and publishers on behalf of the BLC
  • Monitor and assess MOUs and retention agreements in place within the consortium
  • Investigate new tools that have the potential to improve user service across the consortium (i.e., GIST, pay-per-view, “Get It Now”)
  • Monitor consortial collection projects

The Board is particularly interested in creating projects that have a significant and tangible impact on information resource management and access to library materials. Where appropriate, projects can be designed to begin among a subset of members with an option to scale up quickly if there is interest. The RMC should coordinate its work with that of other relevant groups such as the ILL Community of Interest (COI).

Membership:

  • Members of the Committee will be selected by BLC library directors based on their expertise and their role as “head” of resource management within their institution.
  • All institutions are expected to have a representative on the Committee.
  • Each representative is expected to gather input on behalf of all relevant divisions, branches, autonomous libraries, etc., and speak for their institution.
  • The BLC Executive Director will be an ex-officio member of the Committee.

Committee Chair:

The Board of Directors will appoint the Committee co-chairs upon recommendation of the committee. The co-chairs will rotate at regular intervals. The terms of the co-chairs will be staggered. The RMC co-chairs, or their appointed representatives, are responsible for coordinating with other BLC groups such as communities of interest and any ad hoc committees. The co-chairs are also responsible for ensuring that minutes, policies, retention agreements, and other information are uploaded to the appropriate space on the BLC website to be available to the entire BLC community.

Meetings:

The Committee should meet regularly, up to three times per semester. Telephone or other types of virtual participation will be available.

Information sharing:

The Committee should select a secretary to record minutes of each meeting. Those minutes of each meeting and other relevant information will be forwarded to the BLC Executive Director for distribution on the BLC listserv and posting on the BLC website.

Reporting to the BLC Board:

The RMC will provide an annual report to the Board at the end of each fiscal year.

At intervals decided by the Board, it will review the continuing need for the Committee.

As approved by BLC Board of Directors, March 2012

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