NGL Steering Committee Meeting 5/26/2011

Attending: Michael Upfold, Susan Palmer, Alan Boyd, Catalina Oyler, Deb Peoples, Amy Badertscher, Ray English (for last topic only), Carol Holliger and Mary Prophet

Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Alan B. setting up a face-to-face meeting time in the summer and will schedule a 2nd meeting time for a conf. call as needed
• Committee giving feedback to Catalina on issues they'd hope she try to gather more info on at the DSPACE users group meeting in early June

Draft of letter to OhioLINK with DRC concerns

• Mark C. sent out a revised draft based on information provided by TIC concerning delays in our DPSACE grant work that we feel OL should address immediately.  Committee members gave him comments.  He'll try to finish another draft today for review, and will plan to send to John Magill tomorrow.

Staff Dev. Committee

• Catalina has just sent out email calling for registration for the NGL Summer Institute.  The discussion panel leaders have be set and planning is going along well.

Campus updates

• Denison: no update
• Oberlin: new artists' books proposal just in; 3 or 4 others in the works for a mid-June deadline; could be enough that there will be competition for funding; Oberlin's looking at a new model of Zeutschel book scanner utilizing grant hardware/software funding
• Kenyon: another call for proposals will go out soon; looking at Book-eye scanner utilizing grant hardware/software funding
• OWU: Japanese language proposal approved, awaiting final signoffs
• Wooster: a history proposal possibly in the works

Mellon-- timing of next grant proposal

• Susan P. has just sent a email to Mellon asking specifically about timing on a follow-up grant.  When she hears back, she'll get a phone conference together with Mark C. and others to work up some talking points for our next Steering Committee call.

OhioLINK update

• Ray E.said that another OL survey will be coming out very shortly covering local FY12 budgets and renewal priorities.  The survey will ask for one answer per institution.  Everything is on the table if there is no capital budget approved for OL by the fall.