March 15, 2011 BHL Executive Committee notes

Tom Garnett, Graham Higley, Connie Rinaldo, Chris Freeland

Subject: BHL Executive Committee call Tuesday, March 15 at 11 a.m EST
Topics:
1. leftovers from the BHL IC: ACTION: Tom needs to follow up on the corporate report. Keep it simple and provide some basic numbers, grants with minimal commentary. This should be brief and not tailored for each library. Connie noted that BHL/MOU for Harvard ends Aug 1 2012

Tom and Bob Corrigan will begin meeting next week about MOUs. Bob noted that the existing EOL MOU doesn't map to new governance structure. Will try to align these MOUs.

2. HathiTrust Developments: see http://www.hathitrust.org/updates_february2011 Do we qualify for Hathi trust feed. Chris noted that he had asked Trish and Biana: Can we index Hathitrust in Citebank? These are collection development questions. Would need to do some analysis. Much of the material is from Google books which has highly varying quality with regard to color, foldouts, quality reviews. ACTION: Chris will send a note to Bianca and Trish that the Collections group should take this up as research.

other: Connie, Chris and Martin went to Webwise--fantastic speakers. Chris noted: All plenary/panels and no breakouts-it worked well and was energizing. We should think about this for L&L. If we want to get something out of day two, the shared knowledge from day 1 could be very valuable. The pacing was good, too. Tom will talk with Martin and Cathy who missed the call.