2002/2003 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Final Report

The University Library Committee held five meetings between October and June of this academic year. Among the notable developments and topics were:

• Approval of proposal to merge the Orbis system with the Washington state universities consortium, Cascade
• Initiation of a one-year trial period for two-day loans of bound journals to faculty and graduate students
• Ongoing discussion of budgetary issues, including monograph purchases and the serials review that took place this spring
• Discussion of plans for a shared storage facility
• Reports on the impact of the serials vendor Rowcom/Faxon's financial collapse
• Library fundraising campaign priorities
• Knight Library's experiment with round-the-clock opening during spring term Dead Week and Finals Week
• Distribution of the Modern Languages Association's "MLA Report on the future of Scholarly Publishing" to interested parties on campus
• Discussion of the impact of the "USA Patriot Act" and related legislation on library policies and practices

On behalf of the committee, I want to thank Deb Carver, the Associate University Librarians, Sheila Gray, and other library staff for their invaluable assistance in the functioning of the ULC.

Daniel Pope
ULC Chair, 2002-2003