Steering Committee Minutes December 12

1.HaithiTrust and Portico

• Portico needs to do an overlap analysis of our holdings in order for us to negotiate effectively for lowest possible price. It is assumed that because we have so much content already “insured” in EJC, that we will be able to negotiate for a lower than list price. Director’s supplied names of campus contacts who can run an ISSN list of local holdings appropriate for this purpose.
• HT will be contacted again in an effort to get a firmer ball park estimate

2.Operating Committee and ConStor funds

• The OH5 VP’s needed more time to consider our request for diversion of funds from ConStor to Portico and/or HathiTrust. After closer estimates come in from Portico and HT, more information will be presented.

3.OH5 Library Directors Meeting in January

• The directors will hold the quarterly meeting in late January. Location will be Wooster.
• Topics for the meeting will include concluding the current NGL grant; determining specifics for inclusion in NGL2.0; reviewing draft language for new grant proposal for Mark and Alan; scheduling conference call for spring semester and greeting Cathi

4.Technical Infrastructure

• A conference call meeting will be scheduled for January
• The newspaper project RFI has gone out
• The subcommittee working on Omeka needs to have a call in January and should have a draft of the portal project ready for review

5.Staff Development

• Intermediate training for the DRC has been conducted at Denison and will be repeated at other schools as necessary

6.Campus Updates

• Den – approved their final 4 projects including 3 student journal projects and an archival collection of the Homestead
• Ken – has a new video archive project underway and has a call out for proposals for their remaining funds
• OWU – approved on new proposal and is considering a second. May use some funds for extensions of existing grants