1) Committee Reports
· Staff Development (Amy) – Plans are being finalized for the two Gadget Days, October 18th at Denison, October 28th at Oberlin
· Technical Infrastructure Committee (Alan) -- List of hardware and software being updated. Jason from Kenyon will attend next meeting to talk about Drupal, general purpose web content management system. Plans in the works for a meeting to develop best practices for metadata creation in our projects, to be hosted by OWU. Recommendation about how to spend the consortial $40,000 equipment money will be shared later with the Steering Committee.
2) Campus Updates
· OWU – faculty workshop scheduled for October 22nd – “Mellon Grant Success Stories” – Liaison Dee Peterson and Digital Librarian Emily Haddaway will discuss their collaborative digital project with Professor Anne Sokolsky. Information about how to submit a proposal, expectations of librarians and faculty, etc. will be shared – a “mini kick-off event”
· COW – Digital proposal approved – “Collecting and digitizing farmer interviews in Wayne County, Ohio.” Digital Services Associate has given her notice. Search will be undertaken to replace her.
· Oberlin – Two projects recently approved – “King-Crane Commission”, budget of $4,000. Travel to Library of Congress and other institutions will be involved. “Geological features project” has been approved and funded with a budget of $4,000. Project is being revised. “Hispanic Studies” proposal has been revised, and there is a chance it will be funded at a budget of $2,000.
· Denison – Local steering committee meeting next week. Two possible projects are in the works – Geosciences project to digitize specimens in the department and a Biology project to digitize the university herbarium collection.
· Kenyon – Four approved projects, two involving hiring of students. Working out where students will work and use equipment, tasks, etc. Will scan, possibly write metadata – will depend on the project.
3) Award and Acceptance letters
Ray is concerned that the faculty guidelines do not match the requirements listed in the award and acceptance letters. Following discussion, we agreed that this content would be standard for each college, but the language used in our letters can be modified to best suit the culture of each school. Sample letters from Oberlin and OWU will be sent out at the same time.
4) Interface Specialist
Job description has been reviewed by Technical Infrastructure Committee. Alan asked us to send our comments about the description to him. Hopes to send us a final draft next week. The T.I.Committee will review resumes, select candidates, and interview. After discussion, consensus that the position will be an “open search, internal applicants free to apply,” with one inclusive call for candidates.
Other grant business
Catalina reported an 84% response rate to the technology survey she sent out. Committee asked Catalina to send each of us the names of staff members at our schools who did not complete the survey, hoping to get closer to 100%.
Interim reports from each school and the heads of Staff Development and Technical Infrastructure Committee are due today. Bulleted lists are o.k. Send to both Mark and Susan.
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