Steering Committee Minutes -- Oct. 27, 2011

Steering Committee Conference Call Minutes October 27, 2011

  --note taker: Alan Boyd

Technical Infrastructure Committee update
• Report from Alan – Omeka server is set up; local project administrators are being given access to experiment.  There will be a conference call in a week or so to discuss setting up the site and using it for real exhibits.
• Newspaper project details are in; Alan and Catalina will work it up as a draft request for information to send to vendors.

Staff Development Committee update
• Report from Amy - Technical Services workshop was well attended and useful (see earlier blog entry for agenda); afternoon small discussion groups for Serials, Cataloging, and Acquisitions were particularly well commented on.  Catalina reported that the feedback frequently mentioned getting the OH5 committees functioning again in these areas.

• This discussion broadened into the area of III's Sierra "early implementers" offer, and their Electronic Resources Module (ERM).  Michael and Alan will pursue an additional deal with III and we'll consider using OH5 CONSORT reserve $$ to fund on the CONSORT side.  Oberlin is close to having the go ahead from their VP/Finance too.  ERM, which is otherwise a quite expensive module, would be relatively inexpensive under the "appreciation points" deal III is offering right now along with a Sierra commitment. 

Campus updates
• OWU – 4 recently approved projects have been formally accepted by faculty and listed on our projects page.
• Other institutions--- nothing new, but continuing project work

OhioLINK update

• Ray reported that the OL Library Advisory Coord. Ctte is leaning toward their "model #2" option which trims several packages to come up with the $4 million shortfall.  The option to cut one big package is still on the table though.

OH5 Academic Officers meeting

• Mark reported that the deans and provosts are all solid in their support of OhioLINK.  All library directors will be meeting with their deans/provosts and presidents to update them on the urgency of the OhioLINK situation prior to the presidents' meeting with Chancellor, Jim Petro, the second week of Nov.  Ray will attend this meeting to supply any detailed information on the OhioLINK situation that the presidents or chancellor may ask for.

Getting started in Digital Humanities projects

Here's a link summarizing many of the resources several of us heard about recently at the GLCA digital humanities workshop at Hope College.

Omeka Server Support--Conference Call

See the TIC blog posting for a summary of todays call.

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.