March 2012

March 1, 10am, Olin 703
In attendance: Danielle Mericle, Kaila Bussert, Marsha Taichman, Gail Steinhart, Mira Bisara, Liz Muller, Boris Michev, Jason Kovari, Rick Silterra, Barb Morley, Susette Newberry, Roberta Militello

Agenda:

• Updates
  • Luna- new version on test server (6.3.6)
    • Improved functionality for hand-held support
    • Compound object support from admin side 
    • Browser fundamentally the same
    • Will upgrade to Production soon
  • Archivision
    • All modules sent to us -- 4 for price of one
    • Luna- images already on Server, will enable for Cornell ($350 fee)- Jesse covering costs
    • ARTstor- modules 1-5 available, can flip switch; module 6 needs to be loaded
  • ARTstor
    • Handle system needs to be considered when moving entirely over to Shared Shelf
    • Service-level agreement (?)
    • Shared Shelf
• Subgroups (see below)
  • Reference/Instruction/Outreach subgroup- including keeping things up to date on Library homepages
  • Possible breakdown of meetings
    • Reference/instruction/outreach-- anything forward facing
    • A/V
• Conferences 2012  - who is attending what this year?
  • ARLIS -- Susette, Marsha; VRA -- Mira, Marsha, Liz? ; ALA -- Kaila; Digital Humanities -- Boris; RBMLS -- Jason, Liz
• Article (Susette) - Discussion tabled
• Kaltura 
  • We agreed to proceed with front-end development for CUL  (see MIT Tech TV as an example)
  • also push for connection to E-Commons though this is a ways off

February 2012

February 1, 11am, Olin 703
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 a/v survey
    • Library deployment team: Danielle, Jason, Jim Reidy
  • Arts & Sciences Grants 2012
    • Proposals are due March 30th. Please spread the word and encourage interested A&S faculty to apply.
  • Shared Shelf 
    • 3 Cornell collections are now available in Shared Shelf Commons (sscommons.org)
    • Costs:
    • Over the next year we expect: Advanced cataloging tool; control over our uploads

    • \[Gail brought up that RDMSG consultants need our help to understand what's available to manage images as "data"\]

  • New resources 
    • Vogue Archive Online (recommended by the Social Sciences Team to purchase with one-time library funds) *follow-up with DRC to add to image databases list *follow-up with DRC to add to image databases list
    • potential Visual Resources fund (awaiting decision by CDExec)
    • Archvision module purchased by Martha? *follow-up
  • ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (co-authored by Kaila)
    • 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
  • Include more updates/discussion on collection development issues (e.g. new databases),  Discovery & Access development, and Public Services projects
  • Form sub-teams when needed to tackle projects such as the image databases list and reviewing the visual resources web pages