Feedback on Mellon candidates

Thanks to everyone who could attend the candidates' presentations, either live or via video conference. Pls. send feedback to your institution's representative on the search committee (Amy Badertscher, Alan Boyd, Mark Gooch, Carol Holliger, or Heather Lyle) by the day tomorrow, Friday.

Steering Committee Update - April 15, 2010

• The steering committee will meet on Monday, April 26th at 11:00, primarily to discuss the progress of the search for the Ohio5 Digitization Specialist before the search committee meets for the final time.
• The steering committee discussed our common understanding of the way in which the Digitization Specialist will divide her work time among the five institutions. The discussion emphasized the need for equitable support at five institutions that are at different stages of bringing digitization services to the respective campuses. One possibility is to create a memorandum of understanding to document this.
  
• The steering committee felt that a good first step would be an initial set of visits by the Digitization Specialist to each campus, to get a sense of the digitization capacity at each campus, an understanding of the campus culture, and list of the projects and ambitions at each institution. Those campus assessments would be reported to the steering committee. Following the report, the steering committee would establish goals and guidelines for the Digitization Specialist.

Steering Committee Update--March 31

Present: Amy Badertscher, Alan Boyd, Theresa Byrd, Scottie Cochrane, Mark Christel, Ray English, and Susan Palmer

1. Committee updates

The Technology Infrastructure Committee is finishing up the hardware survey and will post that soon. The staff survey is still being developed.

The Search Committee for digital initiatives coordinator will have a conference call on March 31 focusing on five of the seven candidates who had in person phone interviews. They will select three finalists. The next step will be in-person interviews.

The Staff Development committee has had two meetings so far, has scheduled a conference call for March 31st, and an in-person meeting for April 13th. Planning for the summer workshop will be done at the April 13th meeting. The Steering Committee advised that early June might be the best date for the workshop.

2. Librarian guidelines

Theresa will incorporate final suggestions for the librarian guidelines into her most recent draft. She will circulate the final version of the guidelines and Alan will post them.

3. Ohio Five Academic Officers

Ron and Amy reported on the progress of the grant, including an overview of the project, the work of committees, hiring the digital initiatives coordinator, and the various sets of guidelines.

4. Miscellaneous

In response to a question from Scottie: each campus committee will have discretion about the size of budgets for individual proposals from faculty-librarians. We will not develop criteria for evaluating proposals beyond what is stated in the guidelines.

Notes by Ray English