NGL Steering Committee Meeting 5/12/2011
Attending: Michael Upfold, Susan Palmer, Alan Boyd, Catalina Oyler, Deb Peoples, Amy Badertscher, Ray English, Carol Holliger and Mary Prophet. Absent: Mark Christel.
- Technical Infrastructure Committee
o Alan needs to set up a meeting for the committee.
o Catalina and Matt will attend the Open Repositories 2011 meeting in Austin, TX in June. This was approved by Alan, Mark and Susan.
o Matt quit is other position and will be looking for additional consulting roles to compliment his work for the Ohio Five.
- Staff Development Committee
o Training event will be at Kenyon on Monday June 20th
o Keynote speaker will be Jim Ottaviani of Deep Blue at University of Michigan. He will focus on introducing us to intuitional repositories. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/about/index.html
o Workshops and panel topics—we are finalizing the topics and the program should be ready before our next call.
- Campus updates
o Denison—Nothing to report
o Kenyon— Will be issuing call for new proposals this month.
o Oberlin—Will send out a call for proposals soon.
o Ohio Wesleyan—
§ The Japanese language Japanese language proposal was submitted to the OWU Steering Committee
§ Some of the photography equipment arrived.
o Wooster—
§ Wooster’s new planetary scanner will be up and running around May 20.
§ We have candidates for our Emerging Technologies Librarian position on campus now through next Wed.
- Summon
o Representatives from Summon will be at Kenyon on Thursday May 12. (Right after our NGL Call)
o Olink issue may be Summon issue.
- Review of summer plans for CONSTOR (Susan)
o We discussed the work load at CONStor and Ellen’s time.
o We do not want to place all of the work on Denison staff.
o We need work out ways to balance the work over the next year and a half.
- Scholarly Comm. Road Show
o The Ohio Five added to the donation pool to cover lunch expenses for this meeting
o Encouragement of broad Ohio Five participation
§ This is an opportunity for folks to learn more about scholarly communication.
§ Encourage participation
- Ray talked about the issues facing OhioLINK and the potential areas for impact on some of the resources we use.
o There will potentially be more pay to play options than in the past.
o There is uncertainty about Capital Funding and what impact that will have on OhioLINK.
- Brief updates from Mark:
o I will try to get the letter out to John Magill about the DRMC in the next week.
o We have now received pricing from 2 of the 3 vendors on year-end purchases—still waiting for Gale (which is more complicated). We expect soon.
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