Steering Committee Minutes April 28

1. Technical Infrastructure Committee

• nothing new to report. Schools are working on individual projects
  
• Alan will continue to chair next year

2. Staff Development Committee

• Meeting at Kenyon. See Notes
• Amy will continue to chair for another year.

3. Campus updates

• Kenyon: Call for proposals going out for projects to begin this Fall.


• Oberlin: Developing web presence for King - Crane commission
  Another call for proposals going out in May
  Several test collections of audio and images up.


• Ohio Wesleyan: One new proposal received (Japanese Language).


• Wooster: Received planetary scanner and are in process of setting it up.

4. Summon

• Meeting of Ohio5 implementation committee next week – to discuss and share mapping prior to re-load of catalog data, and to share problems, issues that individual libraries have encountered. Will also discuss Core360 issues (libraries have different experiences, varying familiarity).
• Alan reported that they have seen that there can be a multitude of reasons why a particular search yields a particular result, including vendor data, Summon data, local practice. Summon help and response is timely and generally useful. We should share examples of effective searches, and also problems (OWU has a local blog for doing this).
  

5. IUG report

• Innovative announced new platform to eventually replace Millennium.
  This will be a phased implementation over the next few years.
• Millennium being supported indefinitely (next release scheduled for later this year). No compelling reason for us to change anytime soon.

6. Report to Ohio5 Board

• Approved budget and committee chairs.
• Focusing on original core mission – particularly on cost-saving opportunities
• Library committee report (Amy): CONStor board is concerned that books are being returned and kept. Those fears were addressed and allayed.

7. Other

• Director searches:
  OWU – 4 candidates have visited campus; one more to come.
  DEN – meeting with provost early this summer to discuss needs/expectations for new director.
• Ray is trying to organize a meeting at ALA with Oberlin group directors and Internet Archive, to discuss project to create an ebook library of copyrighted material. Interested directors who are attending ALA should let Ray know.
  
• No significant response from Mellon on our report to them.

Full minutes at NGL Site