2018-03-19 Meeting notes

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Apr 04, 2018

Date

Attendees

Notes

First open textbook workshop recap

    • 8 attendees
    • Attendees seemed engaged
    • Should we follow up with the faculty who attended via their liaison librarians?
      • Use follow up for workshop to learn but what they’re working on/interest
      • Let liaisons know about workshop and propose it as an opportunity to talk with the faculty members
    • Action item: Stephanie Roth will write email to liaison librarians to let them know someone from one of their departments attended the workshop about open textbooks
    • Fox faculty member wanted to work on open learning materials
    • Another Fox faculty member is part of textbook affordability project for state of PA

Copyright and Dissertation workshop

    • 6 registrants so far
    • Marketing via graduate school
    • Future meeting: Discuss Graduate School’s Dissertation Handbook, which includes some incorrect information about copyright

Web presence

  • Designated site editors and content contributors
  • Representatives from strategic groups: ie Annie
  • Focus on reviewing set of services offered by the library to patrons and looking at existing content and formulating new entities
  • Reps will come up with a list of areas that need to be covered, look at possible overlap, and then work on moving forward to think about services and how we identify them/document them
    • Umbrella of “research support”
    • Emily is head of the web presence project at the libraries! (while Cynthia is out)
    • Content revisions for website:


Core competencies for schol comm

  • ETDs
    • Copyright category
  • Role of Undergraduates
    • Help all kinds of students think about these issues: creative, activist, etc.
    • Things these “personas” would need to know and what they come with in terms of experience or knowledge
    • How to translate ideas to undergraduates
    • Non-scholarly work and copyright
    • What’s needed in the workforce
    • Liaisons can document issues that come up while doing instruction
    • The idea of the “citizen” or public life; “being a person in the digital world”
  • Emerging Scholarship
    • Too broad of a category? Can we break it down?
    • Moving items to other categories
    • What is a better way to define this group of items?
  • Impossible to be comprehensive--bullets will just be examples