Steering Committee update

Conf. Call 3-4-10

- Alan will try to create a web page for important current documents to provide easier access at Google Sites.

The search committee for the Digital Initiatives Coordinator has asked candidates to get references submitted. A few references are in.

Staff Development Committee will probably meet next Friday. All campuses have named committee members. Initial focus is summer institute. Suggested topics for training: copyright, uploading digital docs to DRC, scholarly communication

Tech. Infrastructure Committee will meet for the first time next week via conference call.

Progress on forming campus project evaluation committees:
- Oberlin - initial discussion w. library committee about the grant campus committee, it’s in the works. Separate process for scholarly communications.
- Wooster – have assoc. dean, 2 instructional technologists, library people are set. Not a faculty member yet. Suggestion: get a willing and knowledgeble Emeritus faculty member
- Kenyon – have assoc. provost, faculty member tentative, all set w. library folks.
- OWU – assoc. dean, will have it all next week.
- Denison – has faculty member, will meet w. assoc. Provost next week, archivist, will ask an Instruc. Technologist

Project proposal template. Ron will send for one more round, then final version.

Staff survey: no more work on this yet. Ron will send Alan research practices survey as an example. Staff Dev. And Tech. Infrastructure committees will review a draft, too.

Scholarly Output guidelines: Ray’s submitted a full draft everybody else will review by Monday, please.

Librarian Guidelines project guidelines: initial draft is done—we’ll review again at next meeting

Budget procedures document: we review a draft and will give a final look at next meeting.

Presentation at Ohio5 Academic Officers’ Committee meeting (re-scheduled to March 24): Amy & Ron will represent us. Mark will brief them via a conf. call. Nneed to mention guidelines and invitations for grant applications, plus make them aware that we’ll give honoraria, instead of release time.

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