Steering Committee Minutes June 21

1. Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Committee will be meeting in mid-Aug.
• Catalina and Matt will be offering DRC admin. training on Aug. 2-3 at Denison
• Catalina and Matt have just returned from a DSpace conference
• Apparently all the issues with handles have been fixed, so we will be putting in a ticket to make all our DRC instances live.
• Ray reported that LAC had expressed concerns about the DRC to John Magill at their meeting; John has resolved to work on this area.

2. Staff Development Committee

• The group expressed appreciation to the Committee for yesterday’s wonderful Summer Institute at Kenyon.

3. Campus Updates

• Wooster – they are short staffed as they have one librarian on maternity leave, another on research leave, another on medical leave following an injury, and another who has just been hired, but won’t begin until July 1. Otherwise, no new developments.
• Denison – no update
• OWU – a new director has been named. (Following the call, the official announcement that Catherine Cardwell, currently Assoc. Prof. and Coordinator of Library Instruction at BGSU, will begin as director at OWU on Jan. 2, 2012)
• Oberlin – their latest call for proposals yielded four submissions, in Music Education, Artists Books, Music History, and Archaeology. Their campus committee will review these next week.
• Kenyon – Joe Murphy will be heading up a new Center for Innovative Pedagogy, which will be located in the library.

4. Timeline Review

• Mark thanked Susan Palmer for her review of the timeline and agreed with her summary of areas we were behind: faculty workshops, scholarly communications, student work, and assessment.
• Ray suggested we talk with liaison librarians that are working with Mellon projects and raise the issue of assessment with them.
• We agreed that it might be useful to start gathering all our assessment materials into a single area on the blog.
• Alan gave an update on Oberlin’s work on scholarly communications and their faculty scholarship collection. He suggested that some of the other colleges might duplicate similar IRs in their instances, which might jumpstart our scholarly communications efforts.