bhlstaffcalloct2017
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Lead: Bianca Crowley
Notetaker: Carolyn Sheffield
Charge: Biodiversity Heritage Library Staff share the collaborative responsibility for the daily operation, improvement, and promotion of the BHL as related to the
mission and goals of the Library and its participating institutions. Staff participate in project communications, including monthly conference calls, BHL's issue tracking system, and various outreach and engagement activities. Staff are responsible for the digitization, discoverability and maintenance of content contributed to the BHL repository by its participating institutions.
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Agenda & Notes
- Reminder: Toggle Mute/Unmute using *6
- New to the call? Please introduce yourself and welcome!
Max Smith - new to BHL, with newest Affiliate at Oak Spring Garden.
Round Robin Updates / Open Discussion (All)
- News to report? Questions/Comments?
Huge thanks to Mai, Randy, and Adriana for leading the calls over the last few months! And to the notetakers!
Outreach Update (Grace)
- Seeds in the Stacks: A Facebook Live event at the National Agricultural Library. A behind the scenes look at some of their Seed & Nursery Catalogs
Gemini Issue Tracker (Bianca)
- Enormous thanks to Jackie Chapman, Joe deVeer, Alison Harding, Susan Lynch, and Diane Rielinger for covering Gemini while I was away on maternity leave from 7/12 to 9/24.
- They dutifully triaged ALL 226 non-scan request issues that came in
- In addition, 97 scan requests were submitted; and 359 issues were closed during this period! Thanks to everyone who helped close out issues
- quick report on triage (volunteer)
- Joe: Documentation was very helpful. Majority of requests were trouble with PDF downloads, able to help out using documentation. Kudos to Bianca and Jackie for training and documentation.
- Diane - agree on documentation. Learned a lot in the process. Encourage folks to review documentation. It's straightforward and not too extensive, very helpful.
- Bianca will add Gemini documentation to the Official BHL Documentation Center on the wikis. see "Gemini Triage Training" doc in our Help Wiki
Grant Projects:
- Expanding Access -- IMLS (Patrick Randall/Mariah Lewis)
- EABL has 108 contributors and 228 in-copyright titles. Total of 768 titles to date.
- Content from 3 new contributors digitized and being uploaded. Two more preparing shipments.
- New blog post up this morning.
- Patrick has accepted a position MITRE Corps in Bedford, Massachusetts at the end of the month.
- NDSR grant -- (Joe deVeer/Connie Rinaldo)
- In September, NDSR residents and mentors met with the Tech group, and also with BHL Egypt. Residents presented where they are, recommendations to date, then a deep discussion on how we can move forward with technical plans. What can be done sooner than later, and looking at future developments for the portal.
- Residents preparing webinars similar to presentations given as part of the Tech Meeting.
- Completing tasks and deliverables including their reports.
- Planning a capstone event in DC in January.
- Katie has accepted a position at University of Boulder and will be starting there in February.
- Alicia will be wrapping up November 10. Illinois Institute.
- Field notebooks CLIR/Arcadia -- (Adriana Marroquin)
- Smithsonain Field Book Project has reached 50% of it's digitization goal. We've published 40% of those.
- BHL Field Notes Project - quarterly reports due to Adriana at the end of this month. Published 1,499 items to date, 36% of our goal which is up 17% from last call.
Committee reports:
- EC & Members group (EC/Member volunteer)
- EC call last week and a few weeks before then. Discussing Tech priorities and a work plan with Egypt. We did put together a detailed work plan in Tech Meeting. Team will be Joel, Mike, and BHL Egypt tech developers.
- Recommendations from residents, some will be completed before end of first quarter. For example, incorporating already transcribed material into BHL.
- Moving forward, we want to eventually also have a way to transcribe a page in BHL.
- Strategic Plan - also discussed how we might want to move forward.
- Yale has applied and application will go to Members for voting.
- Technical Team (Joel Richard)
- Collections Committee (Bianca)
- See link for summary of recent discussion topics.
- Cataloging (Diana Duncan)
- Anyone is welcome to submit questions to this group of cataloging experts. Feel free to submit as Gemini issues or look them up on the Committee page of the wiki.
Any other Questions / Comments?
REMINDER: Next call is scheduled for Thursday November 16 @ 11am ET
Presentations
DLF - Adriana, Pam, Marissa, and Joel will be there.
Richard from NHM-LAC attending Internet Librarian, talking about Digitization of Collections and BHL. Also spoke at AltMetric conference in Toronto about using AltMetric with BHL.
Be sure to let us know where you're presenting!
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