2/25/10

Guidelines for Digitization Project Grants

The faculty guidelines for grant proposals to support digitization projects is now available in the documents filing cabinet.

2/19/10

2/18/10

Oberlin College article about the grant

The Oberlin on-campus web weekly The Source has published an article about the grant.

Digital Initiatives Coordinator search committee

The search committee (cf. 1/12/10 posting for member listing) had its first conference call yesterday. Here's the position posting link.

We'll start an initial review of applications immediately with a goal of holding interviews in late March and early April. Ideally we'd have the new person on board by May 1st.

2/12/10

Combined Academic Calendars

I have created a calendar at the bottom of the following web page which shows the Five Colleges' academic calendars.

http://www.ohio5.org/announcements.htm

Brenda Howard (Ohio 5)

2/11/10

Kenyon Fortnightly article

Here's a link to an article about the grant published in Kenyon's "Fortnightly."

http://www.kenyon.edu/x50180.xml

--Susan Palmer

2/8/10

Steering Committee update

Conference Call, 1/27/10
● Discussion focused on the development of a new document, “Guidelines for Next Generation Library Digitization Projects.”
● The group agreed the guidelines should emphasize partnership with the libraries and focus on the type of projects we hoped would come out of this work.
● Ray English agreed to work on another document about capturing the scholarly output of our institutions that would complement the curriculum development grant guidelines.

Conference Call, 2/4/10
● Alan Boyd, Joe Murphy, and Emily Haddaway have put together a series of blogs to improve our communications. Alan will send out invitations to join the blogs to all who attended the Dec. workshop (Directors can also add names)
● The Staff Development Committee will be formed in the next two weeks. Scottie Cochrane and Amy Badertscher are co-chairs and directors will nominate one member from each college.
● The group reviewed a new draft of the curriculum development grant guidelines; we’ll discuss these again at our next meeting and then distribute the guidelines on the blog.

2/5/10

Yahoo feed for all these blogs

I put all of the OH5-NGL blog feeds into a Yahoo pipe, if anybody wants to subscribe to an aggregate feed:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/jabraben/d1518184c59c59ab6b90c387a41f68cf

-Jason Bennett (Kenyon)