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Friday, October 27, 2006

Highlights of Annual Hawaii State Library Consortia Meeting

Meeting began with membership quorum at 4:30 pm following an Executive Board Meeting.

1. There will be 4 EBSCO training workshops. Kris will be sending out the details tomorrow.

2. New allocation proposal presented: new proposal breaks out baseline cost into two categories - K to 12, and Academic.
Reasons for change: affordability and usage. Motion passed to accept proposal, seconded. Motion passed unanimously.

3. Board Member-at-large: Kathleen Robertson, UH Astronomy, received unanimous votes to fill in remaining term of Kevin Allen.

4. HLC seeks someone to fill the Elections Chair position.

5. Electronic Database Committee: Marsha Kemble, MidPac, new member to the committee.

6. Two upcoming items: 1. Other consortium database considerations. 2. Review of current EBSCOHost databases: which databases are not being used? Can these be exchanged for something else?

7. D.O.E.: has EBSCO funding for 2007-2008, last year of grant money. Unsure for the year after.

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