Steering Committee Update--March 23

Committee Updates:

The Staff Development Committee

The Staff Development Committee met for first time on March 16 and is in the process of planning professional development digital training opportunities for library staff.

The Technical Infrastructure Committee

The Technical Infrastructure Committee hasn’t met since their last call.

The Search Committee

Alan Boyd indicated that the search committee is mid-way through the preliminary interview telephone calls for a select group of candidates. The search committee is working to develop a short list of candidates. Regarding the search, the Steering Committee had a general discussion about the pool of candidates, quality of pool, preference for location of the Mellon Digital Coordinator at a specific OH5 campus, and number of digital jobs currently open.

Other

The Steering Committee members and other committee members will be able to participate in the interviews for the Mellon Digital Coordinator by having the candidates use our teleconferencing equipment to make a presentation as well as to participate in a question and answer session.

The Steering Committee members reviewed and revised the NGL Librarian Guidelines.

The directors agreed that at the upcoming directors’ meeting at Oberlin College scheduled for April 7^th an agenda topic will be the revitalization of the OH5 library subcommittee.