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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. 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
      [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
    • 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
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