Steering Committe Update October 12

General Announcements

• Mary Prophet will be joining the committee as Scottie begins her exodus from Denison
• Copyright and permission forms will be shared on the website as a resource
• Each campus will develop their own copyright and permission forms based on input from their legal counsel
• Cat and Alan are talking with John Davidson at OhioLINK about customizing the new DSpace interface for enhanced display of scholarly articles.

Committee Reports

Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Ad for the Digital Initiatives Interface Specialist has been widely posted
  
• Equipment requests and purchases will be tracked on a spreadsheet available on the website.
• $40K available.
• Big purchase requests will be approved by the steering committee
• Small purchase requests will be approved by the TI committee
• Project purchases will stay with the individual library rather than migrate to departmental or individual faculty ownership
• Metadata Meeting is planned for Nov. 1, 2010 at OWU. ~20 expected to attend.
• Outcome expected to be a set of data elements that can be standard across the projects

Staff Development Committee

• Gadget Days on track. 10/18 @ Denison; 10/28 @ Oberlin
• Will begin to plan for a Copyright Workshop

Assessment Group

• Ad Hoc (Ron & Cat) reviewed the Staff Technology Use & Knowledge survey; found that nothing significant stood out
• Date will be shared with Steering Committee for further discussion if needed

Campus Updates

OWU

• Call for proposals out. Two rounds: one due 12/1/10; second due tba spring
• Mini-kickoff workshop for faculty 10/22/10 repeated at two different times
• OWU requests that faculty have access to the list of funded proposals as examples

OBE

• Campus committee is setting the deadline for their 2^nd round of proposals

KEN

• Campus committee has met and is deciding on deadline for 2^nd round of proposals that will probably be completed over the summer

WOO

• Campus committee deciding when to put out the 2^nd call

DEN

• Call going out in November for summer project proposals
• Open Access topic has been launched via discussion with Academic Affairs and faculty meeting announcement.
• Nov 4, 1010 Open Access kick-off event scheduled. Open to the whole campus. Ray and the chair of Oberlin’s Library Committee will speak at the event.