lib-ir: update on rollout of Scholars' Bank

[Barbara Jenkins <jenkins@uoregon.edu>]

Thanks for the update.  Frustrating about the Grad school.  Are
the major concerns philosophical or pragmatic?

At 07:58 AM 11/5/2004 -0800, Carol Hixson wrote:
> Two meetings took place yesterday
> that have an impact
> on public relations for Scholars' Bank.
>
> 1) I met with the Grad School again. We are back to
> square one with them again (if possible, I'd say
> we're at minus one.) There is some significant damage
> control that needs to be done at the Dean level thanks
> to misinformation that was conveyed to the deans by
> some of the Grad School staff. I reiterated for the
> fourth or fifth time that the library will do whatever is
> needed to make the process of getting dissertations
> into Scholars' Bank as easy as possible. If they want
> to give us paper, we'll scan the paper and put the files
> up. If they want to give us Word files, we'll convert them
> to PDF and put them in. If they want to give us PDFs,
> we'll put them in. If they want to have students submit
> directly and then be reviewed, we'll do it that way. If
> they want to do the submissions centrally, we'll set it
> up for them. In short, any possible permutation and
> we will support it.
>
> 2) I met with Deb and reviewed the results of my
> meeting with the Grad School. She will be having
> some conversations with the dean and others.
> I also updated Deb on the status of some other
> efforts: AAA is philosophically ready but is having
> trouble finding the time to get the ball rolling. I had
> been scheduled to attend a meeting of their
> Digital Media Task Force but have been bumped
> twice because of more urgent agenda topics,
> from their perspective. The Honors College had
> dropped out of sight for a few weeks because of
> insufficient time to follow through but they resurfaced
> just this week and I'm working with them again.
> Given the fact that we still don't really have any
> collection doing its own submissions (we just
> finished harvesting from the Economics site
> again, the AAA student projects site, and Special
> Collections Finding Aids), Deb and I agreed that it
> would be premature to have an event featuring
> Scholars' Bank right now. She has some plans to
> have face-to-face discussions with a number of people,
> while we continue to work on getting content into
> the archive.
>
> Following the Menucha meeting, I had proposed to
> Deb a collaborative model that would have us playing
> a lead role in the state in hosting an institutional
> repository. She has been having some recent discussions
> with OSU about collaborative efforts and thinks that
> this could be a piece of that discussion. She will be
> pursuing that possibility with OSU, and I will pursue
> some discussions with Isabel Stirling and investigate
> CDL policies on their repository.
>
> Yesterday afternoon, JQ and I discussed doing a
> limited mailing to Deans and Directors of  the Open
> Access brochure put out by ACRL, ARL, and SPARC.
> If we did this, we would put a label with some basic
> information about Scholars' Bank and the URL for it
> on the brochure. There might also be a letter from
> Deb to accompany it. JQ is going to talk with
> Jon Jablonski (Jon was at Library Council yesterday
> to discuss actions being considered by the Faculty
> Senate regarding the journal crisis/scholarly
> communication issue) about the possibility and
> see how the efforts might dovetail.
>
> Carol

Barbara Jenkins 
Head, Reference & Research Services
Knight Library
University of Oregon
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