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