2019-09-05 Meeting notes

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Last updated: Sept 05, 2019 by Alicia Pucci
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Date

Sep 5, 2019

Participants

  • @Emily Toner (facilitator)

  • @Alicia Pucci (notetaker)

  • @Natalie Tagge (Unlicensed)

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed)

  • @Kristina De Voe (Unlicensed)

  • @Rebecca Lloyd

  • @Lauri Fennell (Unlicensed)

Agenda

1. Textbook affordability table at Celebration of Charles event (September 19)

2. Open Access Week planning

3. Next steps on 2019 goals / objectives

Meeting notes

  • Textbook affordability table at Celebration of Charles event

    • LRS, Ambler, HSL, Press will have tables too

    • Brainstorming for future table events (later in the semester)

      • Consider multiple audiences to cover all groups (students, faculty, community) - get folks to think about the Spring semester

      • Get folks to think about how librarians can assist them during the Spring semester

      • Empower students to be able to ask questions - what ways can this be done? Go through campus organizations?

      • Offer textbook strategies to students to be able to foster dialogue

      • Poll students on what textbooks are expensive - have them enter this in an anonymous Google doc or write on piece of paper (name of textbook + course)

        • Can use this info later on to target those departments

      • Handout for actionable steps they can take to promote textbook affordability

        • Steps on how can the library help them

      • Provide a half-sheet handout about TABS project, NBP, etc.

      • Set up a whiteboard to ask students a question (i.e. how much does your textbook cost?)

      • Create a resource that outlines the steps on how to access affordable/ free textbooks

        • Include actionable steps with contact outlets (faculty, librarians, student gov. etc.)

      • Answer questions about how to find affordable textbooks without obtaining one illegally

  • Open Access Week Planning

    • Happening October 21st - 25th

    • Can do a faculty exhibit (who publish/ embrace OA) again

    • Where would these posters be displayed in Charles?

      • Digitally on screens - How would this display? Will they be up and running by then?

      • In the faculty graduate room/ reading room - will this be open by then? with accompanying flyers?

      • On easels throughout the building; Tack to the movable whiteboards

      • Innovation space in the Scholars Studio

    • Who coordinates exhibit space options?

    • Can focus on new OA Publishing Fund Recipients

  • Next steps in 2019 goals/ objectives

    • Will update the inventory of scholarly communication-related services and activities

      • Think of a new place for this document to live

    • What is the best way to coordinate with Sara/ Communications SST?

    • Scholars Studio - ask about their upcoming workshops (i.e. storytelling)

      • How can we suggest OA platforms for any of these workshops? Any collaborative opportunities?

Next Steps

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) will ask Sara about the audience for the Celebration of Charles event

  • Due to time constraints, the textbook affordability table will be kept simple because new content cannot be created

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) send out a volunteer form to staff folks for different times for the Celebration of Charles event on Sep 19th

  • Next SCSST meeting is rescheduled for September 26th

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) ask Sara to see what we can do for OA Week for faculty and grad students - available exhibit spaces?

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) and @Kristina De Voe (Unlicensed) will share and compile a list of faculty participants who we can reach out to so as to participate in OA Week - who did not participate in previous years. Can refer to this doc for examples

  • @Natalie Tagge (Unlicensed) will review/add HSL workshops to the inventory of scholarly communication-related services and activities

  • Brainstorm ways to support the Scholars Studio public programming - speak with Matt about these types of collaborations?

    • Can invite the new Digital Scholarship Librarian to one of our meetings in the spring to start fostering collaboration

  • @Rebecca Lloyd will invite someone from Student Success to the Open Pedagogy workshop, and will let us know if it will be opened to a wider audience

  • @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed) will schedule a joint meeting with the Collections SST to review the OA collections and begin the conversation of how we will work on this as a group

  • Once a semester we will use one of our meetings to work on adding to the emerging trends in schol comm list - will do this in early December