March 2012

Agenda:

• Updates
• Conferences 2012  - who is attending what this year?
• Article (Susette)

February 2012

In attendance: Danielle Mericle, Kaila Bussert, Marsha Taichman, Gail Steinhart, Mira Bisara, Matt Conway, Liz Muller, Boris Michev, Jason Kovari, Rick Silterra

Minutes:

• Welcome Marsha Taichman!
• Updates
  • Kaltura
    • Ten responses to survey
    • (Get Jason to send list)
    • Library deployment team: Danielle, Jason, Jim Reidy
  • Arts & Sciences Grants 2012
    Proposals are due March 30th. 
  • Shared Shelf 
    3 Cornell collections are now available in Shared Shelf Commons (sscommons.org)
    Costs:
    What's on the horizon for the next year? Advanced cataloging tool; control over our uploads
    RDMSG consultants need our help to understand what's available to manage images as "data" 
  • New resources 
    Vogue Archive Online (recommended by the Social Sciences Team to purchase with one-time library funds)
    potential Visual Resources fund (awaiting decision by CDExec)
    Archvision module purchased by Martha? *follow-up
  • Visual Literacy Standards
    The ACRL Board approved the standards in October 2011. They are published on the ACRL standards web site. 
  • Discovery & Access
    We discussed the need to advocate for images in the discovery & access planning and implementation. 
    Jason and Rick are both on D&A teams.
  • Mann Reference 
    Gail reported back on her discussion with Mann Reference staff about visual resources support needs. At this point, there hasn't been a demand by students or faculty for image research support. Gail will remind Mann Reference staff that if they do get image questions, they can forward them to vrhelp-l.
• Open discussion 2012 goals