But we're at helping this recording starting the next recording
Yeah, I just wanna respond to jill's question about the the Empire Library delivery in the New Year.
We will send communications out to business. Officer list serves through through our contacts.
About this shift and why we're doing it but you know it doesn't make sense for us to do that now, because it just wouldn't it wouldn't the context wouldn't be there until the new year people are busy
with other things right now. Okay, and just some updates on professional development activities.
In all this our first 4 courses for the library leadership and management certificate program through Cpd.
Have just confirmed and I think they all went well.
We got great feedback from the participants so we're really pleased to about that.
The next 5 courses will happen in the spring semester, and they are still open for registration.
The first 2 on this list. start january Tenth, and so those are the first.
If you're interested those would be what you need to sign up for quickly, you can use Cpd.
Points to pay for this if your campus has those and there is a discount for signing up for 3 or more courses.
And I just wanna mention the library leadership and management certificate came about based on feedback.
We got from the library community that this was something you were looking for.
So if there are other areas in which you'd like some professional development to happen, either like, of course, through Cpd or just a workshop or webinar that all this facilitates definitely let me know and
we'll get working on it. We have some upcoming virtual offerings.
I clearly didn't update this slide because one was yesterday or Wednesday, December seventh.
Cable standards from all beneath it. an excellent presentation on departmental strategic planning.
If you missed it, I have the recording. It was really fantastic.
And the next. The tentative date for a next spotlight will be February ninth on mentoring programs in libraries, and if you are doing something awesome, or someone on your staff is and you wanna share that out let
me know i'm excuse me i'm always looking for different topics for the Spotlight Series, and we've had really great response from this series of webinars. so i'd like to keep it going as much as we
can and the last time here the round table and panel discussions again.
These are based on things i've heard from directors or others in conversation.
We're hoping, to do one on a learning commons model. so we'll feature different campuses around the system who use this model successfully, and i'm hoping everyone can come and just kind of have a conversation
and ask questions and you know, see if that's something that'll work on your campus and the other is textbook reserves and ebook textbooks.
We have some campuses in the system doing an excellent job. in these areas, and we want to share that out to see if it's something that can be replicated on other campuses.
So those will be coming in the spring. semester. stay tuned, and I will communicate about that
And next is the research data management updates. Shannon will go into more detail about this.
But I just wanted to say there will be a series of meetings and conversations throughout the spring semester about research data management and the culminating event of that will be Thursday June 20 s and all beneath So we just wanted to save
the date out there for now, and Shannon alright
So I just wanted to provide a little bit of context this is probably old news for for many of you. but just just to talk a little bit about what we're trying to do.
So a big push. the the reason that there's so much attention right now is mostly focused on the nih change in data sharing their policy.
That's that's going to be in effect january 20, fifth, 2023.
But also there are other changes coming where the Nelson memo is.
You know, is saying that there there will be more requirements for sharing research data, and then also open access on day one for funding agencies.
So this is not a conversation that is going to go away or won't continue.
You know I think not. All campuses will be impacted.
But you know this will be something that will continue to be discussed.
If you're involved in faculty support researcher support at all over the next couple of years next slide, so just some some some quick overview about the Nih data sharing so Nh.
Has been requiring that there are research data management plans and the data is shared.
If if relevant. since 2,003.
The big difference between 2023 and what's currently happening is that it's only right now for grants over half a 1 million dollars.
So in January, 2023, it does not matter.
The funding level. All Nih grants will require a research data management plan and require that research data is shared.
If relevant, you know, if you have, if you have data in there that is protected.
Certainly there there. There are opportunities to not share that data, but the vast majority will require openly available research data.
Next slide. So basically what this means for libraries who will be supporting their researchers, you know.
So this may be something where you, as a library, agree with your campus and say the library is not involved.
This is completely under the purview of the research office that may happen. that's a discussion that's internal to your organization.
Many libraries are seeing this as an opportunity to to be involved.
So what will be needed? in general, 2023 is that researchers who are submitting plans, plan and budget for the managing of sharing that data, and then they submit a data management plan and then they
comply with that plan, and that's going to be part of the review.
There's a lot of nuance in here and that you know Nih understands this is a big change that you know they're going to phase in how this is factored into the you know the review. process.
But this is, you know, the basics of it. So what does that mean?
For sunny next slide. of the I think it's roughly 1,000 right now.
3% require a research data plan. 100% will be required. This isn't back dating this is going forward.
So this is like this is what it will be moving forward that that it's It's going to be a big shift.
So there are also other shifts coming in that more funding agencies will start requiring this.
So if you're a library leader, and your campus is looking to you to be a part of that discussion now is a good time to take advantage of the community of practice that we will be developing over the next year to enter into this
discussion at this point, so that you can start to shift your attention from other things to this, because you know if if that is a role that you're playing at your campus. This will continue to be something that you will need to connect into so some
of them. It may be very challenging in that we may be asked to look more at transformative agreements, because, in addition to research data, there is, there is also, you know, publications that are required to be open access as well, so could be a
good thing, but it's it is definitely going to be a thing coming to you if you are at that type of campus.
So. I just wanna say this plainly before I say anything else, because many administrators have sent this to us.
They say we don't need to focus on research data we have a shared repository.
It's sore. we're good sore will handle this no sore is not your solution for research data management support services.
Oldest will not be offering a shared service.
To do this instead of you doing this at your campus we're looking at partners to see if an institution wants to provide a shared service to other sunnis.
We will be trying to figure out a solution where we can assist campuses to come up to speed on this and we're working on implementing a dryad as a research mate.
Data management solution, because the cost would be astronomical if we hosted this data in sore and that's actually not what the funders want.
They don't really want you putting it in your own repository.
They would prefer other repositories. that you know, are are are are better supported, maybe not prefer.
But you know they're often often saying these are approved repositories.
So we will be providing you with information about this.
As we work on implementing dryad. I know some other campuses are implementing dryad as well.
Dryad gave us data that many of your researchers are already submitting data to dryad and paying dryad directly.
That's going to be what our solution is while we work collaboratively, to figure out how we help campuses and the libraries.
If the libraries choose to be involved. to be a partner on research data management, any questions on that.
So just wanna make sure I mean it's it's not that we don't want to do this in sort.
It's just not appropriate and it's not cost effective. dry added will be where we're looking to have research data hosted.
Because it's it's honestly a better solution
I think we can move on to oer yeah and i'll just speak briefly.
On our services, and then Shannon kick.
Give a lot more detail. if if you weren't on a call previously.
This semester. we will. City will be covering all the costs of the courseware from the ready to adopt catalog.
Through fall 2025 so that's a huge opportunity for our campuses and our students to take advantage of that.
There's over a 100 courses in the catalog and if you need any assistance or your faculty, do let send you your services.
Now you can contact me or Tony, or just oer at Sunni Edu we are in the planning stages.
To return to a model that will include directing the funding back to campuses.
That kind of got put on pause with Covid and with different transitions.
We were hoping to, maybe look at that model more moving forward and the other big news.
We have created an oer advisory board and we're, hoping that they can kind of review and provide some feedback on strategic direction, moving forward, and our first meeting with that group will be next week, and so we're really
looking forward to that
You only think I will say cory is We will be directing a portion of the funding to campuses. I want to make clear about that.
You know that we can't bring it back to what it was in its initial stages, because we need to support. They're ready to adopt catalog and I just wanted to talk a little bit about our system wide oer enrollment
trends. you you you can see you know the peak and we're We're now headed towards the valley that hopefully we come quickly out of to another peak.
But we did see after after spikes going into the pandemic, that there was a pretty significant drop off in total oer enrollments.
That we're still working to determine the many factors that led to this, and then the many factors that you that that that we will take collaboratively to try to see how we can stabilize and increase
oer enrollment next slide you know so it's it's not just enrollment.
It is also number of courses we see you know has kind of peaked and valued.
And now it's going down further so hopefully we see a you know a difference.
Next year again, seeing that same Peak Valley Peak Valley, and then we usually see that from fall to spring.
But now we're seeing both multiple years where fall to fall from year to year, is also having a decline in what we weren't expecting was that 36,000 to the 29,000 so So kerry that's the
first question we asked is like how much of a factor is overall enrollments, and you know it is.
It is significantly more than overall enrollments and That's why we're really intorogating this hard.
If it. If it was a question of yeah, this maps pretty well to overall enrollment declines across Sunni.
We would be explaining it that way and saying, You know we can.
We can, you know, stay course, but it is significantly more than overall enrollment to clients, and what we were surprised by to is that it wasn't just total overall enrollments.
We we were surprised that the ready to adopt catalogue also saw significant declines.
As well. and you know it is you know, and we we brought that up in Brenda.
You brought up a great question. That accurate. reporting of oer adoption is a major factor, and I would agree with you a 1,000% that that's another factor.
However, we do have very accurate reporting of the courseware enrollment, because that has Lti integration.
And we're also seeing that in area. we're seeing the decline more than the overall decline in Sunni, where we have very reliable data sources.
So I don't want to paint a gloomy picture but you know that's why we're looking at.
How can we increase etc., etc.?
Yeah, okay. those are the questions we're asking of you know a attrition of faculty that have been instructors.
That's harder data to get at and to look at year to year.
So we'll likely be looking to campuses where we've seen that decrease not to put pressure on you to perform, but to help us understand what's going on.
So that we can. we can do whatever it is that we can do cooperatively.
To keep affordability moving forward. alright! Thanks, thanks, Gory, for changing changing me up here.
So the we're looking at oer creation, and what our future with oer creation would look like or will look like. So our major focus for the next 2 to 3 years is going to be on developing 5 courses
with the open learning initiative that would be included in the ready to adopt catalogue.
We have some general ideas about that. But we would like to be able to tie some adoptions of these courses when we're creating them, and that's what we're you know going to start focusing on now is those discussions
to say what are you looking at that's not in the ready to adopt catalog, and how can we get firm commitments, or or at least some commitment or interest in adopting these courses?
So we don't just add another course to the ready to adopt catalog.
We we add the right courses. and we want to focus, as always, on the highest enrollment genet courses that we can get with the creation next Slide Corey.
So if there is a need for faculty to create oer and it to be hosted, we have sunni create for that that has press books.
But it's also being used for you know other projects.
You know oyonta has great use of sunni create. genesio has heavy use of sunni create and we're seeing some some additional use from the university centers.
What we'll be working on this year is to develop a low cost cost, sharing model for sunni create because what we're seeing.
Our larger campuses are building major programs around sunni create, and what we don't want to do is is have, you know, get to the point where we are with the repositories where campuses are consistently asking us to do
more add new features. add new functionality but we don't have any revenue sharing, going on, or or cost sharing going on. So we don't have any revenue to to include more things onto that we're
we're, we're not trying to get more money than we need, but we wanna build Sunni create an add to it and do it in a sustainable manner.
So most campuses will not need to pay for sunni create just the ones that are using it very heavily.
And we've already started initial discussions with them and It's going to be as low cost as we can make it.
So we do not have any plans for future oer textbooks with Sunni Press.
We'll start those discussions when the new pressed director comes in.
But it's just you know multi-year projects, and I know that they're at capacity, pretty reducing enough books to be financially sustainable.
So we really need to think carefully about any oer, and and that would involve professional editing by by Sunni Press.
You know the the great one that just came out that was 2 and a half years, I think, in in development or a little bit more than 2 years.
You know that's not to say we won't do it. in the future, but not something that is going to happen in the next one to 2 years.
I don't think so. you've heard us talk a little bit about affordable learning, and I want to give some context with that.
So there, there! there will likely be a press release coming out about oer between Cuny and Sunni.
From I think the governor's office but we need to.
We need to be aware of the approach that Cuny is taking.
As far as reporting oer and the affordable learning savings, and try to align as much as possible. Right?
Because we are, We are shared as far as our approach, and our influence to continue with the grant funding for not the grant, but the budget funding from New York State.
And this year Cuny began reporting. Low textbook cost Ltc.
And 0 textbook costs in addition to the oer savings, and they're reporting very large shavings from low textbook cost and 0 textbook costs and you know they have they have some good paths to that
data. but we need to align to. that and I think it you know, is generally going to be positive, and that we can shine a spotlight on some of the great work that's happening at the campuses in the libraries.
But wanted to give you that you know we're trying to align more with Cuny, so that we can promote ourselves more with, you know, shared shared savings across the 2 systems, and I just wanna jump in for a second
shannon i've been speaking with some campuses who do different affordability initiatives like textbooks on reserve in the library or ebook textbooks.
If I haven't spoken to you already about this please reach out to me.
We're hoping to try to capture some of this data to share out, you know, to show the impact.
That these affordability programs are having on our students and so I will be reconnecting with the campuses.
I've already spoken to. but if your campus is doing anything related to a affordability.
Besides oer, and all your reporting, which, as Brenda and Carrie mentioned, you know, needs some improvement.
Please. let me know
So we'll move through circles pretty quickly it's being used widely.
And lumen circles are are something that oer services have provided.
As a subsidy for or provided for, free to campuses for the last year and a half 2 years.
More at scale this year. So spring 2020, 2022.
We saw 180 enrollments from faculty at 47 institutions.
And then we also had the self-paced exploration of belonging, which is a pilot that i'm not sure that we will move forward with We're looking at that now and then this fall.
Still seeing many faculty interested in lumen circles.
Go ahead with next one. So this is typical that that not everyone completes, but for those who do complete positive reviews generally unlimited circles.
And then also oops
Just a no good to the next one. Cory.
We have a variety of different different themes to the circles. as well.
So I know we're coming up on time but just wanted to finish off with this last one.
Go ahead from lumen circles. So this is what we're trying to do. Nope.
Next done with lumen circles. Yeah, unless anyone has questions.
But We're gonna try to get back to working more directly with the campuses, because we know we need to get better data reported to us.
We know we need to make oer pro a priority again.
And then we we have proposals in to start campus direct supports, financial supports as soon as we possibly can.
We're gonna look at bringing up the sustainability work again.
Adoption incentives are going to be one of the major areas and then targeted initiatives that's where we're going to be.
It's not going to be every campus gets a baseline amount.
It's going to be very targeted initiatives that we hope are widely used.
But You know. we're we're gonna have to look at? How do we increase adoptions and sustain what we have get?
Better data. Keep that infrastructure for oer going at your campus.
Yes, and I didn't mean to rush you shannon there's a delay between my click and the slide actually changing and I just wanna add, we have not had a campus lee's meeting in a while I
am aware of that. we've just been you know going through some transitions and trying to figure out our strategic direction.
But we will be picking those back up again in the spring semester, so I will be contacting campus leads, and we have had a lot of transition.
And who is the campus lead? Most of you let me know right when that happens.
But if if you haven't or if if that position has transitioned on your campus, please let us know so that we're getting the communication out to the right people, and we're just gonna touch base quickly on the
sunni Genet framework i'm sure everyone's aware. there are changes coming next fall, and the framework's been released so hopefully.
We've got some time to work on it between now. and then, but there's been some big meetings assessment folks around Sunni, and the message really is that system is not sending out policies about
how how to meet the new Ge framework. that is going to be a campus to campus.
Decision, and where that really impacts libraries is the information literacy, portion, and some campuses are having.
You know one course that all students take, and that indicates that requirements been met.
Some campuses. try to put it across a number of of courses.
There's a lot of different approaches. but we wanna know how we can best support you with this work.
You know it will fall somewhat to the libraries and the librarians to help make sure these requirements are being met.
So if there is something all this can do to help facilitate that or make it easier on you.
We want to know I met with the Sunni Law Information Literacy Committee a few times this fall, just because those folks are pretty heavily involved in information.
Literacy and They brought up some ideas of maybe having a task force to look at this and so we can look at that creating agenda task force.
We talked about maybe a mini conference or workshops between now and the end of spring semester to highlight.
You know some best practices that are happening on different campuses, or shareout presentations.
And then we also discussed having a repository on lip guides, or maybe another platform that we can upload different examples of what different campuses are doing.
And see what can be replicated. If you have more ideas.
Definitely let me know, and we'll start getting working on this.
But also, if you are involved in this on your campus, if you have an example of a good practice, you use silk featured some work done at Sunni Morrisville.
That was really impressive. and I know a lot of people on that call were like.
Can I get this? And so, and Marsville did share it out.
Which was we appreciate that, thank you but if you're interested. If you're a person who does this work you wanna be involved.
Please let me know, and if we do create the task force we'll put out a call for participation.
And last is our very last slide. communication from Olis.
We we know we have heard over the years communication can be confusing Sometimes there's not enough messaging Sometimes there's too much messaging, and so we will be working on trying to be very transparent as We were in
this meeting, and make sure everybody is upgraded.
As Maureen mentioned, we will be updating the website.
Michelle is gonna be working on that there's a lot on the website right now.
A lot about the Alma migration tons of amazing training resources.
A bunch of slc stuff. nothing's going away but Michelle will be archiving some of the older stuff, particularly the Slc.
Pages. and we will make new pages for the sls.
And as maureen mentioned some of the communities of practice and working groups have documentation up there again is not going away. if it's if that working group or test first is done, that may be archived.
But if you're on one of these working groups have a meeting, you know, discuss what you want to be made available on the website.
And we'll work with you on that additionally email.
We will continue to use email as probably the easiest way to communicate with everyone.
And so we are going to start a new sunni-wide list or citywide library let's serve.
This is going to be inclusive of all roles, so directors can be on it.
Support staff librarians, everybody. And this is going to, you know.
We would like everyone who can to participate in it, and will be an opt in list.
That will maintain. but it'll be ideally our our biggest announcement, Avenue we will keep using the Scld list.
Serve or director communications. I think that works mostly for directors if you're not on it.
If this seems like something you haven't heard of let me know I'll make sure we have the right list
The sls blog will still be used to communicate the most important updates, particularly action items that we need feedback, or answers from campuses and Then base.
Camp will still be used for alma related communication book we're hoping to again clean that up so that it's a little bit less like me posting professional development things that not Alma based camp and then finally the
all this updates such as this one we hope to have at least quarterly and separately.
We will have the library directors. group meetings that will not be exactly the same as these update meetings.
It'll be updates for the director level communications, and then, like I said, kind of topic, too, discuss and consider.
So with that. Are there any questions? and you can please either.
Raise your hand and and go ahead and unmute, or you can type right in the chat
And we made it right. at noon
Any questions from anybody. We will like we said send out links to the different sections that were recorded of the meeting and
We'll include the chat and transcripts with that
Just want to say Thanks, everybody for your you, your your time listening to all these updates.
And thanks for all of your work with this in the last several months to to year, i'm gonna go ahead and stop