Contracting services for librarians, technicians and other services will expire by September 30, 2000. Consortium pricing is available for some products, including UMI Proquest. Copyright Clearance Center - offering transactional service for book chapters, etc. Other services, such as electronic course content service, republication license and course packs are more individualized to institutions needs, etc. Digitizing Services - survey response was underwhelming, so will point people to GSA, LC, NIH contracts for digitizing, rather than creating own.
Fees remain the same as in the past three years.
Business database to be dropped for economic reasons. Diane Zehnpfennig turned the meeting over to incoming chair, Alice Hadley. Programming ideas for 2001 were solicited from group. The FLS recommended the first three ideas be pursued. MLA Benchmarking Project was discussed in very general terms, and more information should be forthcoming throughout the year.