Micropublishers Discussion Group

Present

Ann Swartzell (Harvard)
Paul Parisi (Acme Bookbinding) - paul@acmebook.com
Myron Chace (Library of Congres) - mchace@loc.gov
Linda Miller (Cornell) - lm15@cornell.edu
Norma Hendrickson (Library of Congress) - nhen@loc.gov
Irene Schubert (Library of Congress) - isch@loc.gov
Austin McLean (Bell & Howell) - aclean@umi.com
Carmen Howard (Preservation Resources ) - howardc@oclc.org
Jan Merrill-Oldham (Harvard) - jmo@harvard.edu

Discussion

It was agreed that the group should have a wider scope to encompass the digital. Republishing DG was suggested as a new name.

Issues

Some issues of interest to this group were:

1. Contractual issues
2. New cameras available
3. Forum for sharing new technology
4. Relation of producers and users of products
5. New collections that are available
6. Copyrighting issues
7. Access vs. Preservation
8. Preservation photocopying is becoming digital and potentially re-sellable after the initial copy is made
9. Web publishing
10. Metadata issues/Cataloging - putting the preservation information into the holdings/item record (Harvard is actually noting in their catalog records when they find a preservation copy held by another institution.)
11. Master listing of microfilm - what is available and what is missing from the film sequence
12. Access services
13. Labeling and guides to content
14. Defunct micropublishers and their lost film - should LC be the repository for all of this film and how could that be accomplished?
15. What are the environmental controls in UMI's vault?
16. Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - what is their focus and could they be swayed or influenced more towards preservation?
17. Bibliographic control issues related to storage vaults
18. Reading equipment

Jan Merrill-Oldham and Austin McLean volunteered to co-chair this group for the next year. Austin volunteered UMI to do any promoting/publicizing of the group and its topics for the next meetings.

Adjournment