Steering Committee Minutes April 14

1. Technical Infrastructure Committee

• Has set up a page for issue tracking page for the DRC implementation. This will include information on what Matt is working on.
• Committee has received a request from OWU for a proposed photography purchase including a digital camera, copy stand, lighting, and peripherals.

2. Staff Development Committee

• Training event will be at Kenyon on Monday June 20th. Will be working over next several weeks on details
• Will consider if this group would plan staff development on broader issues outside of digitization parameters.
• It may be time to have some member of the committee rotate off if they need to.

3. Campus updates

• Denison: Grant for digitization of the back issues of 2 student journals, Classics Journal Ephermis and the Religion Journal Episteme. In addition to digitizing back issues the grant will set-up templates for both journals going forward as digital open access journals.


• Kenyon: Kenyon has only small amount of money remaining. Will be issuing call for new proposals


• Oberlin: King - Crane commission web-site will launch soon. Will be interesting interface with a Java based interactive map to show locations in the Middle East. Drawing on resources outside the college. Have brought in some material from Stanford and by bring in material from other archives including the Library of Congress. Looking for all of the petitions from the members of local communities to the commission.
  
  Oberlin has hired a replacement for Digital Photography position. Her name is Sarah Richardson.


• Ohio Wesleyan: Positive experience with Matt and Catalina last week. Copyright issues on media law podcasts. Had a group showing of podcasts to address what the possible copyright issues might be. After this meeting OWU feeling much better about Copyright issues.
  
  Submitted request for equipment.


• Wooster: Advertising for an emerging technologies librarian

4.Catalina’s Time Report

• Time report is shared.
• Alan encourages other institutions to lay out an agenda for Catalina so she can balance out her time.

5. Summon

• Summon will assign a link implementer to work with each of us. Some one who is acquainted with OhioLINK issues.
• Summon has page which allows tracking of e-mail on issues.
• Question on plan for Summon implementers from each campus to have a conference call or face-to-face meeting. Currently on such meeting is planned. This will be referred to Michael. Alan will notify Michael.

6. Any other business?

• Interim report has been sent to Mellon. So far there has been no response.
• By tomorrow all colleges should have wish lists ready for vendors, Proquest, Readex and Gale. We should have information on pricing back by May 1st.

Full minutes at NGL Site