2018-06-11 Meeting notes

Date

11 Jun 2018

Urooj Nizami's Capstone Project

Capstone is usually a 1 year project, now 2 years. Opportunity to put together a project and put it together from beginning to end
Goal: create a set of recommendations for the Textbook Affordability Project and follow through with them
Based on interviews Urooj and Adam did with folks who have done the Textbook Affordability Project in the past
Education: Urooj wants to create a 2 day workshop on openness for liaison librarians (similar to ARL Liaison Institute). Goal is to think about how librarians are already doing things with open
Draft an openness mandate for library staff, how to make openness a part of the work they do
Goal: Send a faculty member to an open conference (who have participated in the TAP in the past)
Collaboration: Establishing requirements for participation for faculty in the TAP, perhaps have to deposit readings in Canvas
New eligibility requirements: Faculty members must reach out to liaison librarians
Recreate TAP LibGuide
Work with Olivia and other heads about creating space in LibGuides to highlight open access journals
Move TAP to force people to think about how publishing and their publishing is part of the problem
Tiered approach to grants (certain projects get more money than others)
Moving from textbook to open, faculty found collections from SCRC. Can we bring in SCRC

Thoughts from SCSST:

Annie noted that SCSST is planning workshops/education for staff for 2018-2019, could potentially be about open access and OER (based on feedback from librarians), will continue to coordinate with Urooj
Kristina noted that SCSST survey showed that librarians generally feel comfortable with open access and OER (but self reported)
What are priorities for project?
- Redo platform where people get information about TAP
- Redo eligibility requirements
- Send a faculty member to a conference
Rebecca noted that it would be great to incorporate librarians more into TAP process (even before folks apply)
Other things to note: Kristina will be Temple's Campus Partner for Affordable Learning PA, Annie is taking part in SPARC's Open Education Leadership Program in the fall
Emily noted that Urooj should periodically come back to our meetings and give us project updates
SCSST will continue to think of ways to support Urooj and her project

General Updates:

U Penn Scholarly Communication folks (Margaret, Kenny, Sarah, and Laurie) want to plan a scholarly communication conference for Philly-area folks. They have invited us but we are still waiting to hear about date and other details.
IR
- DSpace install has hit another bump in the road, but David thinks a development version should be up and running soon
- Implementation team will be Gabe, Annie, Chin, and Holly. Current IR group will be dissolved but there will be more involvement in the future for folks.
- SCSST and RDSSST will still focus on coming up with policies and procedures for the IR.

Libraries Investment in Open Project:

Kristina and Rebecca met with Brian, notes are in Google drive folder
Rachel and Emily will set up a meeting to talk about assess investments in open source
Annie will move her notes on membership to Google drive folder
Stephanie reported that for now, we should focus on Paley, and not on HSL