Technical Services Workshop October 17th

The fall Technical Services Workshop will be held on October 17th at Denison University. All interested staff are welcome to attend, though the day is designed for staff who are working in Technical Services. If you plan to attend let the Staff Development representative at your school know.

The Five Colleges of Ohio Technical Services Workshop
October 17th Burton-Morgan building, Denison University

The Ohio Five Technical Services Workshop is designed to bring staff together to address issues in this changing field. From this workshop we hope participants will find more ways to collaborate between schools, share current practices, and learn about new trends.

Agenda
9:45-10:00 Arrive and enjoy a full breakfast
10:00-10:15 Welcome and overview
10:15-11 Summon for Technical Services
11:15-12 Electronic Resources overview
12-12:15 CONstor Update
12:15-1:30 Oriental Buffet Lunch and Special Interest Lunch Tables
1:30-3 Sharing “Best” Practices (select one: Cataloging, Serials or Acquisitions)
3-3:15 Doorprize drawing and wrap up

For more info see the Full Agenda

Steering Committee Minutes September 22nd

Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes September 22nd, 2011

Technical Infrastructure Committee update
• Report from Alan – OWU has ordered new equipment, from line in grant budget. He hasn't tallied the totals for this line to see who has how much remaining. He volunteered to do so and send out a message to everyone.
• Newspaper project still needs more detailed info from some institutions
• Seeking volunteers to do a pilot video project (short video about a digital collection that could be used as promotional material with other faculty). This needs a faculty volunteer who has worked on a project.

Staff Development Committee update
• Planning the Technical Services Workshop for October 17th
• Professional development opportunitites:
-GLCA workshop on Digital Humanites (Hope College, Oct 7-8)
-OhioLINK Digital Preservation workshop (Columbus, Oct. 24-25)

Campus updates
• OWU –final decisions today or tomorrow on next submissions (received five)
-completed projects: Digital Resources for the Teaching of the History of the Book abd Contemporary Issues in Media Law Podcasts
• KEN – have another call for projects
• DEN – need additional help with costume project and have hired student workers
• WOO – two projects in the works − Working on the Independent Study database
• OBE – working on ongoing projects

OH5 Omeka server project

Notes from a conference call among staff planning to implement a shared Omeka server for digital exibitions support have been posted on the Technical Infrastructure Committee blog

Oberlin Ethnographic Collection talk at Illinois State Museum

Linda Grimm, OC Emerita Professor of Anthropology, gave a talk last week at the Illinois State Museum touching on her NGL project.  Prof. Grimm is working in collaboration with Assistant Prof. Amy Margaris and student research assistant Geneva Dampare on creating an expanded website to facilitate coursework with the digital collection.

New Promotional Flyer from OC Archives

The Oberlin College Archives have created a promotional flyer on their digital collections, include two location collections developed under the grant.