Cori Wilhelm: And you'll get sick.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great! Alright! Well, Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for the olest update for February 20, ninth, 2024 this day only comes around once every 4 years. So it's a special day. It's Leap day.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and we'll hop to the next slide. Literally
Maureen Clements (SUNY): happy leaping day. So just wanted to start off with something a little fun.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): But great. So we're gonna go through some general updates and then we'll talk about functional updates, and we'll have enough time for your QA.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So we are also continuing to use the the bullet. The new Olis Bulletin on our Lib Guide. So if you want to follow along in a different format.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): please do. We will be making a couple of updates to that. I know that I wasn't able to get everything on the oldest bulletin update in time. I did had add in a couple of new slides in here. So it will make a couple of changes. Right after this.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright, let's hop on in to general updates.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. So the first update wanna talk about. I know that a lot of folks have been excited about this are our site visits. We are planning some site visits to the schools as part of our fifth anniversary for the Alma primo implementation.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So what we're doing right now is we wanna gauge your interest in whether you'd like to have an oldest member come and visit you because we don't want to assume that everyone
Maureen Clements (SUNY): is able to do that. So what we have done is that we've created a lib wizard and that Lib Wizard basically does that prompt? So some questions of when you would like a visit if you'd like one. And what types, when you might be able to have that visit? I'm gonna pop this in the chat.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And please note that that in that email. You know, I was actually thinking about this right before we came on. And I thought, you know, what we're going to do in terms of how to send this Lib Wizard is that we are going to send it to the library leaders. Lists serve. But I also want to send it to the Lsp.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And what we'll do is if we do receive more than one request per campus. We'll reach out to the library, lead to organize that so we just wanted to make sure that. You know, if you do fill out 2 forms, that's okay, we will contact we will contact the library, lead at the school and organize that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We also recognize that. we, we wanna start the process. So we are, gonna ask that people get this filled out by March 20 s. That's Friday. Give people about a month to talk about it.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and what we're anticipating is the visits will last approximately 2 to 3 h. We'd love to have a tour of your facility and and show us how, what, how, what, how it's going there. We'd love to discuss the initiatives that you're working on and your contributions to student success. And what are potential some barriers to student success
Maureen Clements (SUNY): in the form itself. We've also left a text box there. So if there's other things that you would like to talk about, please fill that out and let us know, so we can be prepared and we will have some little cheat sheets for some questions that you might have, and if we're not able to answer a question for you. One of our oldest team members is not. We'll be able to get back to you during those visits. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): one other note is that we do realize that there, you know, some of the larger schools. We will not be able to get a visit in in 2 to 3 h. So we are gonna plan a whole day for that. And we anticipate that some different departments might like to meet. You know, the the structures are different. So we'll be happy to meet with the different departments as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So our next general update that I wanted to share is an initiative that we started that sprang from the Olis Advisory Board.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and I just wanna make a shout out to everyone who is serving on the old Advisory Board. Thank you so much for all your great ideas and suggestions. They've been really wonderful and helping us think about planning and what y'all need.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So one of the suggestions that kind of came out of that was to thinking about strategic planning documents and sharing strategic planning documents.
and that sort of blossomed into something a little bit larger. Thinking about, how do we share documents and policies across Sunni? And
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I wouldn't call it necessarily repository, but a place that play people are willing to share information. So what Corey has done is she's created a lib wizard for us. So if you are interested in sharing any of your documents, strategic plans.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): collection development policies, waiting policies, practices. Those are just some examples. But we'd love to hear from you the form that we have. It does include a place for links as well as downloading documents. So if you prefer to send a link, you can absolutely do that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We do plan on using base camp to store this documentation, and that if there's certain things that are sensitive, potential potentially the strategic plans, things like that. If they're internal, we can look at different ways of how we can present that information and make sure that it sort of stays internal.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and we are, once we start gathering this information will we'll be working through it, and we'll be looking for suggestions. And
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so to as we work through the process. But we're really excited about this, because I think that this is going to be a great initiative to help
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. Just a couple of other high level things that I wanted to mention.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Ipads everyone that's coming up. That's due in early April and but you might have a different due date, depending on your institutional research office and their deadline because they have to review these submissions before they submit to our department here. So it just be on the lookout, and if you do have any questions or gathering ipad statistics, any kind of information you might need, please reach out to info at Sunyolas.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Live, answers.com, and we'll be happy to help you. Look for that help. Help you gather some of that information there, answer any questions. You might have
Maureen Clements (SUNY): a quick update about novel.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I wanted to just remind everyone that the 3 million dollars was included in Governor Hockey's executive budget that's slowly making its way through, and we'll know a lot more in April. But it's looking very, very positive. And one of the things that's recently happened just in the past week is that the State the New York State Library
Maureen Clements (SUNY): is going to convene a committee to determine the most effective way to allocate additional funding for novel New York
Maureen Clements (SUNY): cause, as we know, not, only York is 2.6 million, and they've asked for 3. So if we do get the 3 million, there'll be additional funds to spend. So they have asked me to serve on that committee.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and I? I
Maureen Clements (SUNY): but I will be attending that. The first meeting that's coming up next week.
and one of the things that I'd like to do is to use the
Maureen Clements (SUNY): novel New York Task Group, and also the Collections Advisory Group A as a springboard for initiatives that might come out of there, and that I would in interact and engage with the 2 task groups. But you know to to bring information back to the community.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So I did want to let you know about that. And II mentioned this to the task group this morning. But this is relatively new. So I did want to give an update on that. So it's looking very positive. And I'm just really glad to hear that they will be having a committee.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And speaking of novel, New York. I did briefly want to share with you all some statistics that we have put together, and that we provided to our legislative affairs group that we also provided to Sunni Law and the Advisory Board. So. But this is some high level usage of what we're doing with novel.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): all of our Sunni campuses use gale resources in one form or other, and from novel and 47 are Sunni campuses use Britannica academic.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): One thing I did want to mention that when we were doing these statistics, and we were looking this up.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The Britannica Academic 47 campuses are using it. But that means that there's 13 campuses that are not so. If this is if you're interested in using this, I would highly suggest I would suggest that it. It's a great resource, and what we've seen is that the usage has been skyrocketing. So you might. We realize that some schools might not know that Britannica Academic is available through novel. It's a relatively recent addition. So if you need
Maureen Clements (SUNY): assistance, adding that to your you know, Rota, excuse me not your rota, your if you'd like to make that available through now, we'll just reach out and we can help you with that that at our info
Maureen Clements (SUNY): additionally. Oh. that Sunni students, faculty and staff
Maureen Clements (SUNY): accessed nearly 2 million items from novel New York resources in 2022, 2023. This huge amount of download so wanted to highlight that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): additionally Sunni comprised more than half of the statewide novel usage for gale databases for all of the college and at university academic libraries, and during that same period Sunni's usage of Britannica told 30% of the State wide novel New York usage for college and university libraries.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great! This is just a little chart that we prepared of our academic usage, and, as you can see, it's going up, it's as from 2223. There was a million hits for Gail, almost a million for Britannica and at least, the Britannic is going up. Gail has sort of stayed steady across the different usage there. So just
Maureen Clements (SUNY): provide that information to you as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I will be sharing some more of that novel information through suiti law, and we're working with Adam, and we will post this in our base camp.
Great.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. So functional highlights
Maureen Clements (SUNY): going to start with Alma primo.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): As many of y'all know, there was a February release for Alma and Primo. Everyone on the Sls team. They provided Updates for those specific areas in base camp. So if you haven't seen them, they're there, and also on the old spilt. And we did provide a link to the primo and Alma release notes so you could see them in their entirety. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): additionally. This past February eighth we had a session with ex libress. Claudia Balby, who was our customer success rep. She did a session on benchmarking. And what benchmarking means to ex libus
Maureen Clements (SUNY): she talked about 3 areas that they create reports that's integration, automation and analytics, and those are the benchmarks that exileebris uses internally to measure customer satisfaction. And as part of our 5 year anniversary that exists is providing our Sunday schools with the opportunity to
Maureen Clements (SUNY): obtain these reports to help them understand? Where they're at in terms of implementing and customer success. So we
Maureen Clements (SUNY): clay also talked about. There's another feature as well in benchmarking. It's a benchmarking community feature within Alma, that you can set up and benchmark your school against other schools who are similar in
Maureen Clements (SUNY): size and geographic location. So we do have a survey that we've sent out that link is in the old bulletin, and if you are interested in opting in to receive either the benchmarking reports or you are interested in joining the benchmarking community, just let us know we're gonna share that with Claudia. And we'll also help you set up the benchmarking
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Just one note, though, that because this ex. Liber's benchmarking session is, you know, sort of internal. We did point the link to base camp. So we're not going to post that video on on online. We don't want to make that available. We wanna keep that internal. So if you could do that, we'd really appreciate it.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): A third thing that we're working on. I am finalizing. I know I've mentioned this before, but we I'm just about ready to get this sent out with Marley finalizing the new 4 year, pia for Alma Alma and primo ve, as I've mentioned in the past. We signed a new second term sort of this contract that we have with Alma and primo with exbrus.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): It's a 5 year contract with 2 5 year renewals, and we are in our first renewal period. The original Pia was 6 years. So that's why this Pia is 4 years.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): There will be a 2%. Year over year increase going forward. The first iteration of the contract there was no increase this second renewal. There will be a 2%.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We're asking also that once we send out these Pia's that they be completed by May thirtieth. We realize that that's that's not a hard and fast deadline. But we would really like to get everything squared away. In the May June timeframe.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): a reminder that the Alma primo is a core product. That means that every every Sunni school does is a member, or is sort of
Maureen Clements (SUNY): all, it's an all in kind of thing.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. Next slide key.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay? So another initiative that we are working on to help you and thinking about the 5 year anniversary is health checklist.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So these are checklists that are based on excellent versus implementation. Go live checklists that were passed out about 5 years ago. And what we've done is that there? we've taken the this giant checklist, and we've parsed it out based on function.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And we've added some new things and and removed a few things. But to to
Maureen Clements (SUNY): like
Maureen Clements (SUNY): from the original survey to help you determine what are some
Maureen Clements (SUNY): places that you might need to? think about implementing or doing work in Alma. So it's basically designed to help you with strategic planning for Alma to find some gaps and work flows or issues that you might find or things that you might want to clean up, and we're so we'll get these and you'll get these, and we'll be. We'll happy to work with you on anything that you know, that sort of comes out of this.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): What we're gonna do is we're gonna send these. We didn't bombard everyone cause the checklist so long. But we do wanna do it based on function. So the first checklist that we'll be sending out will be the resource management checklist. Then I'm gonna slap that into the chat and so please take a look additionally, in April, we're gonna be sending out a resource sharing health checklist that you can use
Maureen Clements (SUNY): this summer, we'll be focusing on analytics and systems. And in the fall we'll be working on a primo and the acquisitions.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): okay. So I'm gonna move on to cataloging metadata. So we did have a town hall on January 30. First, that was a huge success. We had over 70 people attend, and it was just a really wonderful session where we talked a lot about catalogue and anadata and please feel free to watch the video. It was as I mentioned. If you weren't able to attend.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): it was really just a great session.
We also had an O Clc. Record manager training session, as many of you know. I think the connection browser is going away so they for folks who might not use the client. There's record manager training. O Clc. Valerie Chase, with Clc, so you can watch that record manager training session.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Additionally, we launched a metadata interest group. And this metadata interest group is open to all. So please, if you, if metadata is of interest to you and your group, please join, would be love to have you. There are monthly meetings that are scheduled for the second Wednesday of the month. At one Pm. You can register for the next session on which will be on March thirteenth.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Another thing that arose out of the work we've been doing in metadata, and that would be Marcy Strong who's really leading this effort is the Sunni metadata standards and Policies working group. Leslie felt ball is the chair of that group works very closely with Marcy. And we have just expanded that group to include several new members. And they're going to be working on a lot of new projects, particularly as it relates to the metadata policies for the N zone.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And just wanna mention that the within Alma and Alma community zone homosaurus link data vocabulary is now available and the Homosaurus Bib headings are control can be controlled, and the authority records can also be viewed within the Mde. Editor. So that's a big step forward, and we're really excited. That that's there now.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. So I do. Wanna take a little bit of a deep dive. I'm gonna be talking a little bit about collections. I'm doing a little bit more of a deep dive today on some collections, because there's a lot going on in this area.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Last time we mentioned that we had convened into Collections Advisory Group, and I just wanted to mention all of the collection Advisory Group volunteers really thank them for their service and for volunteering. We've had several meetings and they've been all really great. But I just wanna mention everyone's name here. So Elena, news from Genesio Amanda. Start from the University of Buffalo, Anna Wong from Canton, Don Walton from Jamestown Community College.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Kathy. Mansion from Farmingdale, Kim Nolan, from Upstate
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Matt Gallagher from Binghamton. Ruth Owens from Esf esta toastiati from Olis and myself. So that's who makes up the advisory group.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And already that group has really been having some wonderful discussions, because the group is not only about, I think, thinking about procurement, but also thinking about the management of collections in general, and one of our first discussions that we had really related to weeding and collection management. And I will. We will talk a little bit, but more about this, but it really it prompted it an idea where we'd like to have a weeding round table so.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and talk a little bit more about that
Maureen Clements (SUNY): as we move forward. But I also wanna mention that we the the collection advisory group will be working on updating the website. So we will have a session section on the website. We haven't gotten to that yet. We're gonna be putting together a little mission statement. And we look forward to sharing that with you in the future.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So thank you again to everyone on the Collections Advisory Group. And I'm you know, really excited to be working with you
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. So I want to give you some updates. I know I've shared this with the Advisory Group and the Advisory Board, but I wanted to talk about the Ifb contract updates
Maureen Clements (SUNY): there were 6. These, this happened back in July 2021. There were 6 contracts that were awarded
Maureen Clements (SUNY): chronicle of higher education. Jstor proquest. The New York Times. Wes. Thompson reuters and Ebsco the proquest Ebsco products are different than the core collection. So these are actual specific suny contracts.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): One of the things we thought was that the term for all of these Ifb contracts was 7, 1, 21 t(063) 020-2024.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): It turns out that that's actually not the case, because the term in the contract actually, mentions that the the start date of each contract is the date that the contract was approved by Oscar going forward. Well, we're gonna have to do a little bit of a change here, and I'm gonna talk through each one of these individually
Maureen Clements (SUNY): to let you know what our plans are.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Let me go to the next slide
and talk about the chronicle of higher education. That contract CM. 0 3, 7, 9 0.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The contract date expiration is 1, 2625.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): There are 47 campuses that use Chronicle.
and we do. That is billed through recharge that is built through our Atis portal. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): one of the things that we've just what we're working with the Chronicle on is that we will be working on 6 month, prorated, pricing to take us up until January 2025 for the contract.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So, and we have. We are working on new terms for this contract. So we're already working with our procurement office to push us through as with an exemption request, because the chronicle is one of the one of the
Maureen Clements (SUNY): products that we really use and rely on the most
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we are going to need to be sending out new. Pia's Pia, again, is a participating institution agreement. The current Pia's that we have for the Chronicle only go t(063) 020-2024. So we'll be working with our procurement department and with Marley Timmons to send out a new pia that will cover the 7, 1, 2024, through 1, 2625, and that should take us into a new contract.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Fingers crossed
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. So Jstor is another contract that we have that is, through recharge. There are 40 campuses.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): but the jstor contract expires February so fifth, 2025
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we did put an amendment through of the new pricing that J. Store has put together with the community pricing and the different groupings that they've
Maureen Clements (SUNY): pad. You can either, if you're a community college, you have to go with the All in pricing. But if you're other schools, they can pick and choose.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So all that pricing is already in place. So basically, what we're doing right now is just working on a new contract terms. We're we're not gonna really need to, I believe, go through
Maureen Clements (SUNY): amendment for pricing. So the current Pia, though, goes only t(063) 020-2024. So we will be sending another Pia to cover for that period of time from 7 1 24 to 2, 5, 25, and hopefully we'll be able to get a contract through with J. Store. But by that time
Maureen Clements (SUNY): things are slow, though so must be hopeful.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great. Alright. So the the next we'll talk about is proquest. There are 31 campuses who use the proquest contract, and that is again through recharge.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The proquest contract, though, is a little bit trickier, because the expiration date on that really is 6, 9, 2025. So we're looking at over a year away for this this contract to expire.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We're working with Deirdre Hogan and the are working with our vendor on amendment pricing. We're not sure what that's gonna look like. We think it will potentially be 10 month amendment pricing. But we are meeting with Proquest, and we'll be talking through that. We'll let you know as soon as we know everything
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we do. Plan to work on a new contract going forward, and we'll see how that goes. But again, what we are gonna need to be sending out in the meantime, is a new Pia to cover that period of time from 7 1 24 up to 6, 9, 25.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. The New York Times.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So the New York Times is not on the recharge. Y'all, New York Times has moving subscription dates. It just changes, and so we do not need a pia for the New York Times. But the New York Times does expire on 1 2625,
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and we are meeting. We've been meeting with them, and we've been oop. Hello.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Hello, okay, so we've been meeting with New York Times Christine and Patterson, and to talk about what a new contract looks like. That new contract will include some new products, their athletic cooking games and wire cutter. So those who are addicted to wordle
Maureen Clements (SUNY): might have a chance to subscribe to that
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we are planning a session for March thirteenth at 11 Am. To review the new offerings, and they haven't sent us a link yet. But I do wanna just have a save the date there. So you are aware, and we will be sending out a link as soon as we get that from them.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great. So the last 2 that ifb contracts that we're going to be talking about are West.
That contract expires on 2, 6, 25. There are 7 campuses that use that contract
Maureen Clements (SUNY): vendor does Bill direct. So this is will not be through recharge.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): But we did meet with the vendor, and we have talked to the campuses, and this is one of the contracts that we are going to let expire.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So with, you know, the return investment there for the number of schools that are using the contract. It's and the amount of time it takes us to put the contract through is just it's it's really not a good return on our time or investment.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Similarly, with Ebsco, we did review with Ebsco the contract that we have only 2 campuses are currently using that contract. The vendor does Bill direct. So we met with the vendor, and they would like that. We prefer to cancel that contract so that they can align the 2 campuses to this, the 7, one type of work
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we'll reach out to those campuses and work with them with Ebsco.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright as part of the internal controls cleanup. I think they're doing a lot of work on internal controls here at Sunni Administration. and one of the things that we're gonna be looking at as a result of the internal controls, are we are looking at establishing participating institution agreements for some of our core collections. We don't currently have pias for Ebsco or our Yale.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And that's the all in products that we subscribe to. So right now we're reviewing how to approach that. What's the best way to approach that, and we will let you know more in the future. But I did wanna make you aware that that is something that we're gonna be looking at as well. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): lots of Pia's coming.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Additionally, we just one more Yup back there. Thank you. We do plan to not renew Harper's Weekly through Proquest the Harper's Weekly is a core product that we have been subscribing to through proquest. But it turns out that we also have access which right now we're. It's a very minimal fee. We're just paying the hosting fee for the Harpers Weekly Weekly.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Harper's Weekly. But we do have access to Harper's Weekly through Ebsco's American Antiquarian Society Periodicals Collection. So we worked with the Collections advisory group to talk through this and work through any potential issues we might have. And I think our plan is we that we will not be renewing through proquest, we'll send out more information as the dates. As the dates progress about potential changes you might need to make to your collection. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): okay.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and just to wrap everything up. There are lots of pis coming your way. Core databases. As I mentioned, those are the Epsco gale. Will be working with our teams on that there'll be the opt in core for the Ifb current contract, and then the Alma primo core
Maureen Clements (SUNY): PIA.
Red.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): just a couple of other announcements that I wanted to make in terms of the collections
recharges any changes for recharges posted in the Atis portal will be applied in March. We'll let you know when that takes place.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): The Art store amendment is still working through. We're making progress. I I know that that's been something that we've been working on for a long time. But there was a lot of changes that were happening. And so but I do think that we're both on same page with Ithaca, and we'll be able to get that amendment through
Maureen Clements (SUNY): jstor. The All access package is officially live on January first and has been activated in the Cz. So if you do have any questions, please just reach out to our info@umsunniolas.lib answers.com.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And one last thing I wanna mention which I know is a, big huge
Maureen Clements (SUNY): excuse me, which is a big hold on to
Maureen Clements (SUNY): alright. So one thing I want to mention is the Ebsco, interface and Admin, portal changes, I know that this is going to be a big
Maureen Clements (SUNY): a big deal. So we are gonna be hosting a session with Senior Ebsco trainers. Sha Shauna Ashwood, Vela Viala. Excuse me.
she's going to be joining us on March thirteenth at 10 A. M. So march thirteenth is a big content day. New York Times and Ebsco.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): but Shauna is gonna be showing us the new Epsco host Preview. The session will be recorded for those unable to attend. And just to note that you might have recently received an email about automatic activation of the new platform.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We we were told by Epsco that the new platform will be activated in the summer.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): But this email said, hey? People with low use profiles will be might get this activated. So we reached out to find out what low pup pro at low use profiles actually mean. And that's those schools with 100 or less sessions over the past 12 months, mostly test profiles that were set up over the years. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): just wanted to let everybody know in case they did receive an email about that. But Ebsco is still planning to do the major change over in the summer.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay? Great.
Just a couple of quick updates for discovery, any resources as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Exelebris has published a document on their new discovery interface. They will update it with ongoing information. And so the that's gonna be something that's gonna be coming up pretty soon. And looking forward to that Michelle Eichleberger, who is our er resources discovery program manager. She's
Maureen Clements (SUNY): excuse me working on that working on that project with X labor's through the Illuna Users group. So thank Michelle for all the work that you've been doing on that and keeping us in the loop and updated. So that's been wonderful.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Also, there's a new, a couple of new primo exile webinars, the primo ve roadmap highlights, and what's new with primo? So if you are discovery librarian, or you are interested in Primo. You might and haven't had a chance to watch that. Please do.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Finally, we will be having 2 interest groups the Discovery Interest group will be meeting on Friday, March fifteenth, and the E resources interest group will be meeting on March twenty-first.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. So lots of happenings upcoming Webinars and professional development is Corey's area. Corey will thank you so much. So Corey has put together a spotlight and sunny libraries called streaming workflows with widgets in Alma. And that's going to be on March sixth.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We will be also having a leadership library leadership and management. Cert certification spring courses, the library strategic planning with Hollyhallo. Ross starts on March nineteenth
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and Corey is working on the fall 2024 course date, so she'll be announcing them soon.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): One other professional development webinar that we've what's not really a webinar. It's more of an in person meeting that we're gonna be doing is the spring 2024 library leaders, community of practice. They would like to meet in person. So we've been organizing that for the Su. University of Buffalo
Maureen Clements (SUNY): to coincide with the Sunni Cit. That's the conference on Instruction and technology. We'll be meeting the day before. So that's Tuesday, May twenty-first.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Cory's working on all kinds of plans for that. So registration and details will be following. And we're really looking forward to meeting library leaders in person.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): great and great. So Corey, just posted about the Alma spot spotlight in the chat. So thank you so much, Cory.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so one of the projects that Cory is working on is library research showcase. So you know, our new Provost, ROM. One of his major initiatives is doubling research output at Sunni.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and as part of that effort. We do wanna really start highlighting the vital role that our campus libraries play in research and scholarship, not only with or not within our own libraries, but across the schools and outside of our schools. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): whether you're working directly with professors doing your own research. We are, gonna have a 2 day session, April ninth and tenth. This will be virtual where we we've invited 10 presenters to discuss their research projects. So we're really looking forward to this.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Corey's gonna be sending out more information about that. And we really appreciate everyone who has stepped up to volunteer to be part of the research. We will be inviting Rob to attend if he's able. And we really look forward to that. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): yeah, Corey.
Cori Wilhelm: I'm just gonna jump in. I am still working on the schedule. So if you have a research project something you've worked on or partnered with faculty or students on, and you're interested in presenting are. The presentations will either be a lightning round like 7 to 10 min or a 20 min presentation. And if you are one of your staff is interested in presenting, we do still have
Cori Wilhelm: time to work you into the schedule. So shoot me an email this week.
Cori Wilhelm: if you want to be included.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): really excited. Because I know that everybody's doing so much great work across our Sunni schools, we really want to celebrate that. Thank you, Corey. Alright. Another couple of roundtables. One of the things I had mentioned earlier is the collection Advisory group had been talking a lot about waiting and collection management. So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we are working on some upcoming round table discussions.
We thought potentially they'd be great for city spotlight. But We're we're, I think we're gonna turn them into a round table.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): But when we'll be on weeding what we we'd love to learn what works for your school and what hasn't tips and tricks for best practices. So if you are working on a weeding project, we do have several folks lined up. Who will be talking about specific experiences at their school and but please reach out to Corey as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Another Round table initiative that we're working on is discussing library and learning Commons services. We want to find out more.
So
Maureen Clements (SUNY): findings from the library and learning Commons services survey. That's some Cory has been working on sending out talking about what schools have library learning comments and how they're organized. We wanna examine the different models, including the department structures, your staffing, sharing the space.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): what services are not included, I think. This is a really great time to sort of as we move into Ds. I think it's a great time to sort of explore how libraries are involved in other areas as well that all sort of relate. So, Corey. Thank you so much for working on that and gathering that info
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we are looking at as well. Questions for the waiting panelists. So if you do have any questions for waiting panelists as well as questions for the library and learning comments, panelists where some things that you might be interested in Corey has developed a lib wizard for questions. So please please feel free to share your questions with us.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So should be putting that in the chat. Great.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Thank you.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay. So institutional repositories
Maureen Clements (SUNY): wanna talk about a little bit about soar. And Sdr, right now, one of the things that we're doing is we're sort of. We're we're doing a little bit of a deep dive in our guidelines and reviewing our guidelines right now. So we're working our we've convened a small group, Catherine Yvonne, Marcy and myself
Maureen Clements (SUNY): that will be reviewing the soaring Sdr as a trusted digital repository. So we're gonna be using the track. Tdr guidelines to do that, and we are creating a rubric. And so what guidelines do we have? Really? Looking forward to sharing that documentation and information. Once we've
Maureen Clements (SUNY): sort of work through it ourselves.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we are looking for feedback from users of Soren, Sdr. To help inform our repository planning. We are
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so please feel free to give us a shout out or an email through the institution repositories base camp, or you can email any of us. And again also info@umsunulus.lib answers.com.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): There is a plant upgrade for soar software upgrade d space, and that's it coming in 2024 will share more information with you as that comes available.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And I do wanna make a note about this scholarly communications community of practice this past. Thursday there was a session on workflows in D space and open repository, and Yvonne presented on that. So that's recorded, and you can access that as well. And then for March the March 20 eighth, the topic will be
Maureen Clements (SUNY): repository, education, and outreach to faculty. So and also, too, we, we welcome any kind of feedback about soar, Sdr. During skull communicate communication
Maureen Clements (SUNY): scholar communications, community of practice. So really look to that community for recommendations and engagement.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So research data management.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I know that Corey and Katherine have been working very diligently on putting together acr training for building your research data management toolkit.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So this is actually going to be a session that is co-produced with the Empire State Library network. It's going to be virtual registration is available. It's a workshop for June sixteenth and seventeenth.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and the audience's introductory level will be sending a little more information on that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Excuse me as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Katherine, Stellar Peters, who is leading our research data management strategy. also, runs the task group, the Rdm task group. We're we're and in that task group she's working on developing a framework for graduate student competencies on research data.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So the initial investigations of interest were in service for suny wide or campus data catalog that's been put on hold while they work through the graduate student competencies. So that's gonna be the focus for this year
Maureen Clements (SUNY): looking forward to what the framework looks like. So thanks to everybody who's serving on that committee really appreciate it.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And Catherine's also been doing a tremendous amount of work on a pilot session. The research data framework pilot feedback with campus stakeholders for the Sunni created tool.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So Catherine's presented in less than several times. It's a really wonderful tool that is designed to help you evaluate your readiness. So there is arg Task group from NIST there that Katherine has provided, and you can also see the Sunni prototype tool. I believe that Bridget almost has been working on that tool with Katherine.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Rdf. Planning scorecard as well, and there will be a a presentation on Rdf. Research data access and Preservation Association. It's the Rdf summit that's coming up in 2024. There's a panel in workshop, so you can click on the link there for panel and workshop through the old button and take a look.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright. So we're rounding out the functional topics with resource sharing.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So I just wanna point out some of the great work that Tim Jackson has been doing for resource sharing. We Cuny is now live through the peer to peer, peer to peer
Maureen Clements (SUNY): peer to beer, really peer to peer resource sharing network, and so really excited about that we there was a couple of tiny little bumps, but we've gotten them worked out and so we wanna thank everybody on the team Tim and Ally, that's for this guy from Cuny as well such hard work, and really, really excited about these new
Maureen Clements (SUNY): partnership there.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Tim has also been working so hard on launching new partnerships through the peer to peer network, and we just recently went live with Pascal and OCUL. Which is the Ontario Council University libraries. And so there's going to be research sharing with Canada in our future. So really thankful and excited for all the work that Tim has been doing on that.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): And finally. excuse me.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we will be putting together. Tim's gonna be leading a session on Alma resource sharing. It's a general update session that's scheduled for Tuesday, March twelfth. At 2 Pm. I highly recommending. I think it's going to be a really great session. Tim's gonna talk about expanding article resource sharing within Suny
Maureen Clements (SUNY): expanding the physical resource, sharing with the Non Sunni libraries, and also reviewing possible changes to Sunni re resource sharing loan period policies. So please, if the the we'd love for you to attend. We'd love to get your opinions and your take on that. And Tim is going to be leading the work.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Okay.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Whew!
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright! So we covered all of the high level updates that we need to cover and wanna leave it open for some questions. And if also, please, anyone on the Olis S. OS team. If there's anything I missed, or please feel free to just share info, if you have, it
Maureen Clements (SUNY): just gives time for questions as well.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright sounding very quiet out there, I think. Think that's a good thing, I guess.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): it is a lot of info, Karen. It's a lot of info. I'm always amazed at how much information is happening here. It's kind of
Maureen Clements (SUNY): it's a
Maureen Clements (SUNY): we're doing a lot.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Yup. Great! Thank you, Corey.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): So our tentative update for the spring 2024 will be May Friday, May third, at 11
Maureen Clements (SUNY): and we will again put out a bulletin, and we'll have the update. That's right around graduation time. So it's hard to believe.
Susan Davis (UB): That's coming up so soon. And I do see I do see a hand up from Susan. Hi, Susan! Hello! I sorry I was late coming in, so I'm sure the things that I'm most interested in were covered before I was able to get here. But I just wondered, you know, if
Susan Davis (UB): there's any sense of where the state budget is going to go in terms of Suny. I know that there's been a big effort to get the money there for the the novel. New York. Replacements, if you will. And you know, again, like is, are people still really optimistic? That that's gonna gonna remain in the budget through passage.
Susan Davis (UB): You know, I don't know if you or I mean, like Shannon always had his ear to the the legislature. So if you have that Maureen or someone else in Olis has that yeah kind of sounds. Lauren asked me to be on the committee for the novel New York,
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Mentioned that the New York State Library is convening a small Committee of Constituents to review
Maureen Clements (SUNY): what to do with potential additional money or looking at the novel. New York, you know, package itself. So I thought I took that as a very positive sign. That it it's looking. It's looking good that that this money will come through. I haven't heard anything.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Hi!
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I'm not as tuned in. But II haven't heard anything negative. And I. And I think this potentially from from my perspective, it's looking very good. Yeah, it's probably too soon, because you know the
Susan Davis (UB): the method is okay. We have 3 days. Oh, but it's Easter right there, you know, or I don't know if Passover is always yeah, the same that that's gonna you know. Crunch it for for the Legislature, who still seems and and look at our Federal government. It's the same same kind of deal, the last minute stuff in the scramble to see what? What? Finally
Susan Davis (UB): what finally makes it into into the budget. But yeah. anyway, and let us know. When you come to Buffalo, like, you know, if there's particular places or restaurants that you wanna.
Susan Davis (UB): everybody has a different thing. So there's all you can get, whatever I mean, we have. We have lots.
Susan Davis (UB): obviously, and cool stuff. Yes, we're very, very excited looking forward to that trip. So buffalo is big in our future this year, because not only is cit happening, but oh, yeah. And sooni law is happening, too. So that's a buff state. So we're gonna be spending lots of time in Buffalo really looking forward to that. But thank you, Jill, do. Do we have any information on the degrader partnership with sunipras?
Susan Davis (UB): I do not. This is the first I've heard of it, so I appreciate you mentioning that, Jill, I will reach out and be meeting with CD press, I think. And it's yeah. Your old friend Rob Karen, yeah, I got that email too, although you know I've I have been in touch with him. But I was sort of shocked. They sent
Susan Davis (UB): again. They said, they've joined sunni Press has joined the you know, the greater University Press partnership, and now they can sell
Susan Davis (UB): Sunni output as a collection. I guess before you could never even do that directly with Sunni Press, but they were anticipating 200 240 books.
Susan Davis (UB): this
Susan Davis (UB): in 2,024, and I was personally, I was surprised it was that high
Susan Davis (UB): So anyway, I don't know. I sent it on to our our selectors, and I don't know. you know if anybody has any any thoughts, because De Grider they keep offering
Susan Davis (UB): again like a trial to their University Press program that, you know, might be 3 months, 6 months, maybe longer. I just got an email about like a a journal's trial
Susan Davis (UB): through the end of June, or something like that. So they're they seem to be being very
Susan Davis (UB): aggressive, maybe is too strong a word, but they're out there, and of course, you know, Rob
Susan Davis (UB): is a pretty good schmoozer, you know the previous rep for degrader was Steve Sutton.
Susan Davis (UB): who also was a schmoozer. So, anyway, in a different way, so, anyway, so I'll reach out and I'll take a look, and I'll let you know. I know that Soonie Press is really interest, you know they they've got such great offerings, so
Maureen Clements (SUNY): I'll see what I can find, and we'll share that through.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): We'll figure it out
Maureen Clements (SUNY): so. But thank you so much. Jill, I appreciate that, and I'll have to do some digging.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Great.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): Alright.
Maureen Clements (SUNY): all right. Any other questions.