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

Minutes:

• 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

February Minutes sent to CU-LIB

• We welcomed Marsha Taichman, the new Visual Resources & Public Services Librarian, Fine Arts Library.

• Kaltura is the new audio/video streaming platform service being deployed campus-wide by CIT, with customized implementations for CUL, Blackboard, Lab of O, and Cornell Cast.  Danielle, Jason, and Jim Reidy are leading CUL's development of Kaltura, focusing on three key development efforts: collection building; staff access with possible centralized, front-end "media-space" for dissemination; and E-Commons integration.  Development efforts to date have been slow, but spring should bring focus to the CUL deployment.  Look out for upcoming presentations on Kaltura, including one during Career Development week in March. 

Jason shared the results of the Audio/Video Survey sent out to cu-lib: In December 2011 - January 2012, the VRWG conducted a survey of a/v needs in the Cornell University Library system. CUL owns a substantial amount of analog and digital media holdings; including archival, commercial and in-house created assets. Common needs stated are: aggregated platforms for access, archiving and editing digital media; funds and staffing to digitize analog recordings; purchase and maintenance of analog equipment; creation of a repository for 'digital prototyping' and CADD/Form Z output; and more. The VRWG plans to analyze these needs to assess our place in facilitating services. 

• Arts & Sciences Grants 2012: 
  Proposals are due March 30th. Please spread the word and encourage interested A&S faculty to apply.

• ARTstor Shared Shelf 
  Three Cornell collections are now available in Shared Shelf Commons (sscommons.org)
  Costs: For now, Central Library funds will cover the per asset costs associated with utilizing Shared Shelf.  Over the next year we expect the advanced cataloging tool and more control over uploading images, although development efforts have also been slower than expected.

• New Image Resources: Vogue Archive Online is now available. It was recommended by the Social Sciences Team and purchased with new one-time funds. It will need to be added to the Image Databases list.

• ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education 
  The ACRL Board approved the standards in October 2011. They are published on the ACRL standards web site. Kaila co-authored with 3 members of the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) Visual Literacy Standards Task Force.

• *Discovery & Access: *We discussed the status of images in the discovery systems, and our need to advocate and work with the different teams to integrate image resources.

• 2012 Goals: We began a discussion of our goals for this year. Suggestions were more updates and discussion on Collection Development, Discovery & Access, and Public Services issues and projects.