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.