Dr. Black stated that we will open up for comments, etc. for 3 weeks in order to bring this policy up to a Research Faculty Standard. Please read over it in it's entirety, keep a general mind, and then the Governance Committee will revise. Read as a first draft. Motion on the floor for faculty comments over the next 3 weeks. Met on Wednesday, February 19 with Dr. Barry Starcher as an ad hoc member to discuss the issue concerning the old journals that have been kept in the research reading room and the ones that are going to come from the main library.
Suggestions made during the meeting are as follows.
Except the ones that have been specifically indicated in response to the memo circulated by Carolyn Graham on February 6, the rest should be relocated or discarded. The ones to be retained in the reading room include the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Science, Cell, Journal of Cell Biology, PNAS, Biotechniques, and the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Nevertheless, it is recommended that we do not keep issues of journals that are older than 5-10 years. It is suggested tha the storage room could serve as an overflow point for the old journal issues that are to be removed from the reading room before being relocated down to the basement. It is, however, not entirely clear whether we have the right to make the decision to discard some of those old journal issues donated by W.W. Wise.