July 10th

July 10 Exec call minutes

On Call: Martin, Nancy, Connie, Susan, William

Strategic Planning - Martin will write up a white paper re: moving forward.
Membership-- John Carter Library (Neil Safir) wants to participate, Carnegie Mellon and University of South Hampton also shown interest. We should look to see who is harvesting data to see if they would be member candidates. We should also check in with UC libraries again. Do we know which campus is the biggest contributor?
Nancy attending IFLA in August and preparing a powerpoint
Martin announced the Acadia Grant for Smithsonian field book project. Discussion of how to bring all field notes activities and create a collection within BHL.

William is compiling a list of action items
Connie said BHL Europe has been accepted under CETAF umbrella which might mean more opportunity for funding and now 'has a seat at the table"
Grace is working as community manager and working on Digging Into Data (and being funded by that grant)
We need to have further discussion on how to fund members travels and the criteria needed to do so.