Steering Committee Minutes

NGL Steering / OH5 Library Director’s Conference Call March 3, 2011

1. Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Next meeting scheduled for March 24; Matt will be at this meeting
• Matt’s tasks are on the NGL Google Site
• Committee has had requests for information re: equipment purchases

2. Staff Development Committee

• Has met twice generating ideas for the summer. Catalina will be sending out a survey to get feedback on what people would like to see happen.
• Ideas include “summer institutes” or faculty workshops focusing on big topics like scholarly communication/open access and process oriented/targeted workshops for staff.

3. Campus Updates

• All campuses reported that work is ongoing. OWU has another request for proposals due 4/15
• OBE has done a test load of IP-restricted art slides; OWU is discussing a digital collection of student and faculty art. KEN and DEN indicated similar projects may be on their horizon and as they develop we will look for collaborative possibilities.

4. Summon

• The Link Resolver issue: The Summon generated open url carries genre information. When information other than an article links is passed to OhioLINK it diverts it to a central catalog search. For example, what is defined by Summon as a “news” is interpreted by OL as "not an article” and results in bad/misleading information about an item displayed to the user. It is unclear exactly where the problem lies.
• The Core 360 issue and OLINKS: For OLINKS to work at all it has to know about the resource. When the table is submitted to OhioLINK, it has to include every single e-resource by journal title.
• The Mapping Issue: most schools are still working on the mapping issue. OBE opted to go with Summon default mapping and will tweak later. WOO and OWU intend to go with Ellen’s mapping suggestions (with some local tweaking) after the default instance. Oregon State University has made their mapping available; they have tweaked approximately 20% of the lines. Michael will share their document with us to see if there is anything there a school may want to incorporate.

5. OhioLINK Update

• Ray would like feedback from us on the draft strategic plan before the meeting March 11. The plan was constructed by LAC to document the major objectives OhioLINK should focus on while leadership and budgetary issues are unresolved.
• Jim Petro, the new chancellor, is a Denison alum. He has a good reputation among independent colleges and Ray suggested a meeting between Petro and the OH5 presidents to talk about OhioLINK.
• March 15 we’ll learn about the state budget; Fingerhut requested flat funding for OL; it’s not known what will actually happen. Still waiting for passage of a Capital bill. OL is ok until the 2012 renewals are due; if no capital bill, there will be serious issues.

Full minutes are at the NGL file cabinet.