01262017 Members Call
January 26, 2017 Conference Call
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Agenda and Notes:
On the call:
Regrets:
Barbara Ferry, Neil Romanosky, Kelli Trei, Christine Giannoni
- Welcome to new Members on the Call (Connie Rinaldo)
- BHL Update (Martin Kalfatovic)
- Call for hosting the 2018 BHL Annual Meeting (see Guidelines; also sent to Partners' List on 25 January 2017)
- Secretariat orientation for University of Toronto occured: 17 January 2017
- I attended the BHL Workshop at the Atlanta History Center organized by Mariah Lewis (NYBG) and she did a great job; components of the AHC are interested in Affiliate status.
- I also attended the ALA Midwinter meeting in Atlanta; EABL had a booth (staffed by Mariah Lewis and Patrick Randall); United Airlines lost their standup banner, but it arrived in time for the second day of the meeting). Patrick and Mariah have forwarded a list of names to Grace Costantino of people interested in getting the BHL e-newsletter.
- 2017 Budget Review (Proposed Budget | Budget Justification)
- Nomination Committee for 2017 election has met (17 January 2017) and will develop a slate and call for additional nominations shortly.
- Technical Update (Martin Kalfatovic)
- Full text servers have been ordered; we are waiting on Dell to configure and deliver to the Smithsonian
- Mike Lichtenberg is working revamping the PDF generator interface to make it simpler to selected multiple pages
- BHL Global Update (Connie Rinaldo)
- Annual Meeting Update (Wai Yin/Martin)
- Project updates
- EABL (Susan Fraser)
- NDSR (Connie Rinaldo)
- Field Notes (Carolyn Sheffield)
- New Grants Submitted or Received? (Martin Kalfatovic)
- Upcoming Conferences/Meetings (everyone)
- IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly. Wrocław, Poland. 19-25 August 2017
- 2017 ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 6-11 August 2017 (Ecological Society of America)
- XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzen, 23-29 July 2017 (BHL Symposium scheduled)
- 46th LIBER Annual Conference, Patras, Greece, 5-7 July 2017 (in planning)
- International Open Repositories Conference, Brisbane, 26-30 June 2017 (BHL presentation accepted; Ely Wallis will attend and present)
- 6th Global Botanic Gardens Conference, Geneva, 25-30 June 2017
- ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, 22-27 June 2017
- SPNHC 2017, Denver, 18-24 June 2017 (Carolyn Sheffield will attend)
- 2017 CBHL Annual Meeting, The Andersen Horticultural Library, Minnesota Landscape Library, Chaska, Minnesota, 6-10 June 2017 (EABL Pre-conference workshop)
- 9th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick, 23-26 May 2017
- XXI AETFAT Congress, Nairobi, 15-19 May 2017 (BHL Symposium scheduled)
- NDSR Symposium, Library of Congress, 27-28 April 2017 (BHL presentation submitted)
- DPLAFest 2017, Chicago, 20-21 April 2017 (BHL presentation submitted)
- 2017 Open Scholarship Initiative, Washington, DC, 18-21 April 2017
- RDA Ninth Plenary, Barcelona, 5-7 April 2017
- ICSTI Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 4 April 2017 (Martin will attend as the BHL representative)
- CNI Spring Meeting, Albuquerque, 3-4 April 2017
- Open Science Conference 2017, Berlin, March 21-22, 2017 (BHL poster will be presented by Carolyn Sheffield)
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