Steering Committee Minutes March 1st

Technical Infrastructure Committee update

• a sample newspaper microfilm reel has been sent to iArchives for digitization
• Catalina has restructured the public portal as suggested

Staff Development

• need to pick a day (May 22nd?) for faculty workshop
• search for a new committee member to help out

Grant Update

• Susan, Mark, and Alan will be discussing current budget outlook soon

Campus updates

• Wooster- will distribute draft of policy on comprehensive senior independent study loading to DRC; continued planning for Lisa Spiro coming to campus in late April; Mark will ask her to meet with others from OH5 on digital humanities on Thursday (4/26) before her Friday presentation for Wooster staff
• Kenyon – continuing work on various projects
• OWU – some discussion of digital humanities option for next grant has occurred
• Denison – continuing work on various projects
• Oberlin - Shansi project about to go live; they have created a staff workgroup to learn and create procedures for student Omeka projects

Other

• the outcome of the staff's electronic resources gathering the week before were reviewed; directors will discuss a further charge to the group (possibly on ERM) at their meeting next week; Amy Fry at BGSU was suggested as a good resource person who knows a lot about III ERM