Steering Committee Update - May 10, 2010

• The starting date for the Ohio5 Digitization Specialist will be July 1st for a two year position. This suggests a minor timing issue for the grant, which runs for two years starting January of 2010. We may have to ask Mellon for a no-additional-funding extension until July of 2012, both the cover the Digitization Specialist position and those spring semester projects.
• Now the Digitization Specialist search is almost complete, the Steering Committee turned to the question of the 1/2 time position to support the web site. Alan and the Technical Infrastructure committee will develop a position description and will collect information from each campus about current and potential projects to inform the process.
• Wooster, Oberlin, and Kenyon reported their progress in collecting faculty proposals for digitization projects, with deadlines for consideration in May and June. The response has been great so far.
• The Steering Committee reviewed June 18th staff development meeting, which looks to be very attractive and useful for the Ohio 5 library staff.