Victoria
I would prefer to have hard copy for the library.
I agree with Joe, Kris and Jean.
Not all countries interested in this area have access to computers, CD-Rom,
or constant power
but you take a book outside and read it.
At 07:55 PM 14/01/2003 -0800, Victoria Welborn wrote:
>Hello all and Happy New Year.
>
>Don Potts, a faculty member and coral reef researcher here at UC Santa
>Cruz, is on the organising committee of the 10th Intl. Coral Reef
>Symposium. The organizing committee is considering publishing the
>proceedings on CD ROM only, and Dr. Potts is interested in librarians'
>reactions to this. While I can respond from the perspective of a unversity
>library in the US, the organizing committee would benefit from responses
>from librarians in all types of libraries and in as many countries as
>possible.
>
>Below is Dr. Potts' email to me-with some specific questions and
>concerns. Thanks in advance for your time. I will make sure Dr. Potts gets
>all the responses.
>
>Victoria Welborn, UCSC Science Library
>
>(Note to Victoria Welborn from Dr. Don Potts:)
>
>I'm on the organising committee of the 10th Intl. Coral Reef
>Symposium. Traditionally, the proceedings have always been published in
>2-6 volumes about 1-2 years later (with an emphasis on strict peer review
>and editing after the conference). The question has come up about moving
>to CD-ROM publication, and we've been asked to find out how our libraries
>feel about:
> > * CD-ROMs as the only written record of meetings etc.?
> >
> > * any problems with longterm storage, access, cataloging,
> > archiving etc.?
> >
> > * any policies and practices that might be developing in libraries
> > about handling of electronic media?
> >
> > * any advice librarians might give to people publishing
> > electronically?
> >
>These proceedings have become one of the major means of communication in
>the coral reef field, and we want to maintain that. At the same time (and
>partly because of it) we want to accelerate the publicatio! n time, and
>reduce the costs to organizers and individuals.
> >
> > We know that some organizations publish mainly in CD-ROMs, but with a
> limited printed library edition as well (e.g. many remote sensing
> meetings do this). Do librarians recommend such a practice?
> >
> > Anyway I'd appreciate any thoughts you or your colleagues may have
> about these questions
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Don
>
>
>
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