7/27/12

Steering Committee Minutes 7/26/12


Technical Infrastructure Committee
  • Alan reports no activity-- he'll be trying to set up an August meeting
Staff Development Committee
  • Catalina trying to get more promotional videos in the pipeline-- contact her with your possibilities!
  • An Omeka workshop is being planned for Aug. 16th; the Steering committee approved bringing in a presenter from Cleveland State. Update: the Omeka Workshop will be August 20th
Campus updates
  • Each campus is "plugging away" at current projects
  • Oberlin is almost ready to load 1500+ citations to faculty publications, reviews, and presentations for the time period 2007-2011 in its Oberlin SHARES repository
  • Oberlin has digitized (with Art Museum grant funding) the complete 60-year run of the Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin.  It will be loaded soon using the DSPACE IP zoom interface that will also be used for our newspaper project
Draft of precis for new grant
  • A new draft of a precis for another grant to expand our work into "digital scholarship" support was reviewed; Mark C. will work up another version
Update on OhioLINK LAC meeting
  • 4 most supported strategic priorities: 1) Next generation purchasing arrangements, 2) Discovery Layer implementation, 3) ebook strategies, 4) strategic vision for OL budget
  • 4 most supported operational goals: 1) IT support financing structure, 2) assessment, 3) communication strategy, 4) DRC direction forward