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October 25th ECSC Conference Call

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Proposed Agenda:

Notes: On call" Martin Kalfatovic, Becky Morin, Judy Warnement, Diane Rielinger, Doug Holland, Susan Fraser, Connie Rinaldo, Nancy Gwinn

Martin mentioned that we are nearing the end of the membership year and renewal notices will be sent out in the mail soon. We hope to get the dues by end of December or early January.
A Smithsonian Board member donated $5,000 to BHL. The next Steering committee meeting will be canceled because of a conflict with the Thanksgiving holiday but will be rescheduled. We will discuss the mission statement process. The Staff group will have a discussion of the mission statement on November 15.
We also need to discuss how the 10K allocated in the budget for scanning will be distributed.

Martin then provided a recap of the tech meeting with brief discussion of the cluster. Jenna Nolt (sp?) and Frances Web of Cornell want to be part of the tech group along with Joel, John, William and Chris. Tech questions can be run through this group before getting to Mike L.
Overall the meeting was considered to be well run and very successful but Connie thought it was difficult to have two meetings running concurrently since she was interested in attending both. Future meetings will be considered more carefully.
Thoughts about the meeting from other attendees: Becky thought the set-up by Grace and Bianca for the free contribution of ideas and the exercises for setting up the mission statement and goals was very good. There are real benefits to having a face to face meeting and its reassuring that as a group we have the same goals. Judy concurred.

William was not on the call because he is attending TADWG in Beijing where he is giving a Art of Life poster session. BHL Europe is also doing a presentation. Next year the meeting will be in Florence, Italy.

The tech group had a good meeting in St. Louis with Simon (Australia). The toll out will be pushed back to early January 2013 but the beta site will launch in November Beta.biodiversitylibrary.org It is not ready for comments but a timeline will be distributed when it is in place.
John and Joel worked on MACAW ---the group provides more institutional programmer knowledge.
Round Robin: Doug sat in on the Art of LIfe meetings with the Indianapolis Museum of Art. --discussion of their algorithms -- will be a great way to retrieve images.
Judy - not much to report but is hoping for some good news from BHL execs
Becky attended the Library Directors digital strategy summit. She presented as proxy for IMLS but had opportunity to speak about our field notes project. She mentioned that Richard Holzer from LA is inquiring about participation in BHL for non-dues paying members. This topic needs to get added to our Exec meeting agenda.
Becky also reported that they use the City car share program to deliver books to the IA and will be featured in some of their marketing.
Diane mentioned that Matt Peerson attended a digital history conference
Susan mentioned that the NYBG just started year 5 of their GPI grant --she and Judy will be attending teh GPI meeting in Panama.
Martin was invited to attend by Bill Robertson---Judy raised the question about sending BHL files to JSTOR since they want all the literature for GPI. This needs further discussion with jSTOR
Martin and Grace are currently at the IA leaders forum in San Francisco and did a presentation on Smithsonian related BHL activities. Martin met with an Apple itunes rep (Jill?) --more opportunities to promote our itunes collections. He also met with Marissa Meyers at Yahoo - we had questions about our Flickr account and she answered a lot of these questions. Provides good outreach which may channel back into BHL images.
Nancy joined the call late
Doug asked if we considered another collaboration possibly for Seed lists - Index Seminum or seed catalogs. IMLS encourages collaboration- the upper limit is now $500K (reduced from 1 mil). The group discussed if there was anything comparable in zoology. Any other thoughts on collaborative projects?