sil November 28 2012

SIL BHL Staff Meeting

November 28, 2012

• Quick question re: Russian translation item (again, I know -- Bianca)
  BC will work with GB and MRK to deal with this
• Recap of SIL Board Meeting (Martin & Grace)
  GC and MRK reviewed the BHL presence at the SIL Advisory Board meeting (NYC, 15-16 Nov 2012). NEG gave a brief presentation on BHL because there has been a turnover and new additions to the SIL Board since the last large scale BHL orientation for the board a couple of years ago.
• Darwin's Library & AMNH Visit (Martin & Grace)
  MRK and GC met with David Kohn of the Darwin's Library project and will work to get more content into BHL (without using lots of hand work from MOBOT staff); they also met with AMNH staff to discuss workflow and use of Macaw
• BHL Publicity Campaign Results (Grace)
  GC reviewed the publicity campaigns past and future; see the SIL Staff blog for her report. Dinosaurs and Shark week were popular; American trails least successful (no engagement from NZP staff); takeaway is more collaboration with the other institutions
• BHL December Giving Campaign (Grace)
  Budgeted $500 to do an FB ad campaign; there will also be emails to Gemini people and also print letters to larger donors
• Collections updates: microfiche issue, collection analysis & Joel's gift of the BHL dataset "sandbox" (Bianca)
  Ask BC question
• FYI: Paid internship application for virtual reference intern submitted, working on submission of BHL social media intern for paid application (Bianca)