2020-04-16 Meeting notes

Date

Apr 16, 2020

Participants

• @Rachel Appel (Unlicensed)

• @Kristina De Voe (Unlicensed)

• @Lauri Fennell (Unlicensed) (facilitator)

• @Annie Johnson (Unlicensed)

• @Rebecca Lloyd

• @Urooj Nizami (Unlicensed)

• @Alicia Pucci (note taker)

• @Natalie Tagge (Unlicensed)

Agenda

1. Welcome back Annie!

2. TUScholarshare-Communications toolkit doc discussion, news/update - Alicia

3. TAP2020-2021  update-Urooj and Kristina

4. Workshops-general discussion-all, Lauri and Kristina ("Highlighting Your Research Amidst Uncertain Times?"-draft)

5. What is changing with the COVID-19 outbreak: open access, publishing, etc. (includes temporary access discussion)-all

Notes

Welcome back Annie!

TUScholarShare Communications Toolkit - Next Steps

• The Education Materials drafts will be organized into two versions:

  • An abridged version that features specific TUScholarShare topics to be used for repository education

  • A full length version (combined as one document) that can be used for general education on schol comm topics. This can be featured on Confluence for use by liaisons or shared with LRS

• Next steps:

  • Annie and Alicia will review the drafts and create the two versions

  • The versions will then be reviewed by the team, who will make final revisions

TAP 2020-2021 Updates

• TAP received 12 proposals. 1 is not eligible because they are a previous award recipient

  • These were received mainly from the same disciplines, like Psychology and Klein. But they did receive one proposal from Boyer

  • The deadline for evaluating these proposals is April 28th

• They want to expand the scope of TAP to consider: types of research that faculty are doing around open pedagogy, affordable learning, options for providing grants for open pedagogy itself. A shift from focusing on the final dollar amount. They want to consider other measures of success

  • A small subgroup will start working on this for future cohorts

• There has been no word if the TAP budget will be affected by Library budget cuts

  • The money they raised crowdfunding will go toward granting more awards

• TAP and NBP brainstorming:

  • Is there a bridge grant for TAP awardees who want to take it to the next level and write an open textbook for NBP? Should we encourage TAP participants to consider participating in NBP and then award them for it?

  • At the end of their TAP participation, should they be offered a consultation with NBP so that they may apply to write an open textbook?

  • Should we designate one TAP participant to be considered for a NBP stipend?

Workshops - General Discussion/ Brainstorming

• What are workshops going to be like moving forward? Are they going to be COVID related?

• Moving forward, does the team feel that we should organize a group of schol comm related workshops? Or do we feel that it’s fine for individuals to propose workshops working in concert with Olivia and her team? Is there a need for a series of workshops?

• There is value in workshops coming from this team, either the creation of new ones or reuse of materials. The things that we create can filter to liaisons and they can offer this on their own/ use the team’s materials. We can still provide education to liaisons and let them run with it as they wish

• Should we be asking people what kind of workshops they want to see? And then base our workshops on these suggestions?

• HSL has been doing drop-in workshops. Everyone has an assigned workshop that they teach. If our team creates new content, we should have our workshops be part of their workshop lists. This way these will be marketed to wider audiences and we can gauge interest

• We should coordinate workshops as coming specifically from our schol comm team

• We cannot judge interest based on previous workshop attendance. Having them online has caused an increase in attendance (not necessarily the public, but Temple folks) - makes them more accessible to a wider audience

• How separate do workshops need to be? If they are all online, they can be advertised more generally to reach wider audiences

• If we want to continue to organize a set of workshops, would we want to get the liaisons more involved (call for volunteers) and run them ourselves? Or host workshops that we teach ourselves?

• Over the summer, as a group we can develop 2 or more workshops that we haven’t done before or take preexisting ones in a new direction:

  • Rebecca and Rachel are organizing a new workshop on managing archival photos (2020-04-13 Meeting notes)

    • They will revisit this in May to consider for the summer

  • Lauri and Kristina are working on a new workshop called “Highlighting Your Research Amidst Uncertain Times”

    • Idea for this came from APA guide on how to cite a cancelled conference presentation. But they can offer scholars ways to highlight their work, like via repositories, pre-print servers, etc.

    • They are developing this and hope to host it in May

• The team needs to think about how our status quo workshops have changed in light of COVID

Discussion - What is changing with the COVID-19 outbreak: open access, publishing, etc.

• How has COVID affected research writing and publication since a lot of it has come to a halt (especially in the sciences)? What does this mean for the research community? Will there be a lull in research output? And how should workshops acknowledge this?

• Research output during this time is going to vary tremendously across disciplines - sciences vs. humanities

• One major trend is that granting agencies for grad students are either not giving out grants for projects or asking them to change them to digital projects. Can this be an opportunity for a collaboration with the LDSS to advise researchers on how to turn projects into digital formats?

• Many research offices are providing information for their scholars. Is there anything from the libraries/ our team that they can include in their offerings/ on their websites? Is there an opportunity for us to get involved in this?

  • Should we ask Deans of research how the library can help their researchers? Should we ask - What do they wish they could do that our team can help them achieve?

  • Should we go through Joe about this? Ask him what he thinks about approaching them in this way

  • Should we first brainstorm a list of ways that we can actually be helpful for them?

  • Should we loop other library folks into this because it addresses a broader research conversation?

Next Steps