Shannon Pritting: Alright, looks like you know the adding of people is slowing down. So we'll go ahead and get started.
Shannon Pritting: And the first of May. Seems like it's been a long week or long, long month in April. So we'll go ahead and get started and Mark is first up on the on the docket.
Mark McBride: Thanks, Jenna. Hey, good morning, everyone. Shannon could roll to the next slide. Yeah. Um, I mean, I think the, the, the one item I really wanted to address and I sent a message on the listserv late last night.
Mark McBride: We've been following the discussion on the listserv. I believe Sarah Davenport at how you started it.
Mark McBride: Some concerns about library staffing and then other issues related to
Mark McBride: that's impacting our libraries.
Mark McBride: It. I think it, it kind of morphed into a broader conversation.
Mark McBride: That I think we need to have as a community. I mean, right now, let's face it, our campuses are working through some uncertainty right now. And I think our libraries are also feeling that impact.
Mark McBride: Once again libraries are being asked to do less with our to do more with less.
Mark McBride: And I think Holly kind of articulated that well just, you know, you get to a breaking point. And, you know, you're, you're really not serving your, your staff very well. And also you're really not serving your campus if you're continuously trying to do more with less.
Shannon Pritting: And Mark I just
Shannon Pritting: Sorry to interrupt, but
Shannon Pritting: Sorry, maybe spend a second this this discussion was on the directors listserv so
Shannon Pritting: Oh, lot of non directors on the on the call to
Shannon Pritting: A lot of directors, but yeah.
Mark McBride: So one of the one of the directors from Kyle, you go, Sarah Davenport had commented on
Mark McBride: Concerned that her staffing level in the library was was say they begin to low and that some of the vacancies that she had hoped to fill wouldn't be filled. Now, because of the some of the uncertainty with our budgets and so her request to the community was to find out.
Mark McBride: You know what other campus staffing levels words. So maybe she can make the case with her library, but also she
Mark McBride: She, she raised the question of, maybe it's time to have a broader conversation with her executive team on campus about what the role of her library is now in the campus, not just be related to coven 19 but just, you know, working in an environment where libraries seem to have
Mark McBride: They've kind of transform, but they're to the point now where that transformation is limiting their ability to manage all the areas that they're responsible for inside their organizations.
Mark McBride: That was kind of a tipping point to a broader conversation.
Mark McBride: And a lot of library directors started trending in about not only their staffing levels, but some of the similar concerns that they had an in Holly hello Roz from Plattsburgh, I don't know if Holly's on the call or not.
Mark McBride: She made the comment about trying to do more with less. And that it's detrimental to the library is detrimental to the campus really
Mark McBride: If the library is continuously trying to do more with less. I mean, that's really not just specific to the library. I think that's any organization.
Mark McBride: That continues, try to provide the same service and then actually increased services while they have less resources to provide those services.
Mark McBride: And so it, it kind of triggered a conversation amongst the directors on the listserv. And then it also kind of dovetailed into conversations we've been having an old list. And I also believe at the SLC board.
Mark McBride: Where we have we've noticed that the library staffing levels are what are are lower than they had been previously. I think Sunni libraries have have struggled with some staffing
Mark McBride: Levels for a number of years. I think when spectrum and libraries librarians. Join us join our ranks from outside our, our institutions outside our system. I think they
Mark McBride: They're kind of taken back by the staffing levels that they that they see in the libraries, they start working
Mark McBride: And so, um,
Mark McBride: I think another piece that I met many of the librarians have expressed to me who come from the outside is that we don't seem to be as coordinated, as well as we could be
Mark McBride: And I think Sunni when you step in Sunni libraries. When you come from the outside in. You're expecting more coordination and there seems to be less coordination and I know we have made many attempts to try to better coordinate ourselves in all those attempts
Mark McBride: I wouldn't call them outright failures, but sometimes our success and sometimes they're not. And now we're in this
Mark McBride: Environment where there seems to be added pressure on our libraries and a need for better coordination with our campuses and with oh listen I I think with each other.
Mark McBride: So I hope that provides enough context.
Mark McBride: So as we've been following this discussion on on listserv.
Mark McBride: You know, we've been thinking in terms of, you know, within all this, how can we respond to the needs of the library community when we ourselves have have been struggling was was staffing levels over the years and
Mark McBride: You know, we've grown a support unit that Shannon leads and I think that the rest of the community looks favorably on
Mark McBride: In is there opportunities where you can start expanding those services to provide them to the campus but we're always hesitant to to expand services on if we really don't understand the the needs of the library community better
Mark McBride: And the one thing that we do know is that it when we work together as a whole, we're much better than if we try to do things separately. Shannon, you can move on to the next slide.
Mark McBride: So one one idea we came up with.
Mark McBride: Is to uh let's let's work on a I'll call it a four week project if we could, if we could seek maybe four to six volunteers.
Mark McBride: From when our library community to help us identify these problem areas. I think we have them identified in the next slide I'll present them, but it doesn't mean that these are the, the only areas we will focus on
Mark McBride: But we'd like to get a group of about four to six library personnel together, not just the, not just the directors, but also librarians and maybe staff members.
Mark McBride: To help us think through these areas where where our campus libraries are struggling the most review those problem areas and determine what we want to
Mark McBride: Focus on the idea is that this group would meet next week or before next week. So next Friday when we get together for another webinar we will present the final areas that we want to focus on
Mark McBride: From that group of Bob referred to him as problem areas. We will seek another call for volunteers.
Mark McBride: To join us.
Mark McBride: With helping to develop solutions to those problems.
Mark McBride: And and again we want to do this quickly. We understand that the solutions that we put into place. They may not be permanent. We'll have to iterate, but
Mark McBride: I don't think we want to drag this out as like a traditional strategic planning type of exercise where we spend months rehashing what we believe these these issues are, I think we're in a time now where we have to rapidly.
Mark McBride: Transform what we're doing. And so I think we have to quickly respond to some of the immediate concerns that are that our libraries are facing in our campuses are facing. And the idea is that
Mark McBride: Each each group will meet
Mark McBride: And and work through a process to offer up a solution to the community and then we will start to act on that solution. And again, we will measure it, we will look at the impact
Mark McBride: And when we need to change. We will change will iterate will will keep moving through this until, until we get it right, Shannon. Next slide please.
Mark McBride: Looking at the looking at the listserv. This is what I gleaned as some of the areas that that people have expressed concerned with
Mark McBride: Um, I think one was the virtual library services and you can see them all up in here on the screen. Um, one was about our shared collection strategies which really the CPC is already working on
Mark McBride: But I imagine maybe not everybody's quite aware of that. And so maybe we could take time and the next few weeks to to make everybody aware what the CPC is working on
Mark McBride: I know there are some concerns about some of the scholar communication services, especially with the new open access policy that many campuses have stood up recently.
Mark McBride: There are also some concerns about, you know, what can we do better to help strengthen our Interlibrary Loan offices, so maybe there's an opportunity for us to kind of coordinate better around resource sharing. I think professional development has been an issue for a while.
Mark McBride: And then also some external and internal partnerships that we have to
Mark McBride: Discuss. I mean, one of the items that the SLC has brought up for a number of years is how do we have better tie in with Sunni law and maybe this is an opportunity for us to very dramatically. Think about how we want to be better positioned and better
Mark McBride: Aligned with Sunni law. And then also, we also want to look at some of the Course Reserves that came up on an immediate concern.
Mark McBride: Um, that was brought up, I believe, two weeks ago on one of our calls
Mark McBride: How the, you know, our Course Reserves we train, you know, we kind of moved them up to electronic reserves. When the publishers made their content free but
Mark McBride: Now the publishers are probably going to pull back on offering free access to those materials and if we move into remote learning again in the fall. How do we provide services to to our campus and Mike Daly has been leading that effort with with for directors and our institutions.
Mark McBride: So what I'd like to do is I'd like to ask for people to volunteer to participate. I'm in a you can go back one slide.
Mark McBride: To volunteer to participate in an exercise where we will quickly develop a solution to the problem. So the first exercise would be to define the problem.
Mark McBride: Then we will gather information quickly and will come together with possible solutions will generate some ideas on how we could solve those problems and then get to implementation.
Mark McBride: With the idea that we're going to be evaluating this these solutions and then also iterating so we put together this form here.
Mark McBride: On the next slide.
Mark McBride: Where people can
Mark McBride: Fill out their name, email address that campus. They represent area focus where they would like to volunteer to help us think through some of the solutions and some of the problems and, you know, I've kind of put
Mark McBride: I put all our problems into these these individualized buckets, you'll see on the form that
Mark McBride: That I hadn't mentioned on the on the second slide I believe that doesn't mean this is this is just going to be the areas we focus
Mark McBride: On we may actually want to iterate on the problems that we've identified right now, but I think the, the key thing is to just start working on some of these solutions because I think we need it now, as a community, and I think our campuses needed just as much as we do.
Mark McBride: So I've done a lot of talking, so I'm going to step back and take any questions or maybe field any of the comments that have showed up in the chat.
Jennifer Smathers: Brian Sullivan says love this. Will the original four to six volunteers continue beyond the first way week that's making eight to 12 folks total or is it a tag team thing.
Mark McBride: So I'm just thinking that the first week would be four to six people who could actually help us.
Mark McBride: Identify the problems and then they would be maybe a group that code oversee the whole process and just keep
Mark McBride: Keep track on the other groups as they work through this so that it's so groups do work somewhat in isolation. But then there's members of that original group that kind of check in with them from time to time. So there's better cross pollination.
Mark McBride: You know, another piece I wanted to bring up is last night, I was reading the SOC strategic plan that was created back in 2015 or 2016 and a lot of the items that were brought up on the listserv are actually
Mark McBride: Brought up on that strategic plan is areas that directors did want to focus in on. So I think we're going to also look at that strategic plan to help us in a form some of those strategies in terms of the direction we want to take things
Shannon Pritting: Kerry, did you want to unmute yourself and and give your hand up.
Carrie Marten: Yes, thank you.
Carrie Marten: Mark. Thank you very much for bringing this up to our attention and really
Carrie Marten: putting together something that I think we can work with. And I love that there have been specific things identified
Carrie Marten: There's a couple things that I hope as we're
Carrie Marten: As this group is coming together is
Carrie Marten: Also looking at how how to introduce and manage change because there will be some change with all of these things also possibly
Carrie Marten: If one of those changes might be in scaling back services or adjusting services and how to manage that, especially when
Carrie Marten: We have staff that have very specific kinds of jobs and maybe having trouble if they're being asked to make an adjustment. How do we help them and support them as we're trying to meet the new needs or different needs of our patrons and how can we
Carrie Marten: In a sense, redeploy them into new areas and also recognizing the great work that they've done and the value that we, they have to the organizations.
Carrie Marten: And in terms of making those shifts and changes. I think that's really important in terms of managing the overall change, regardless of what we do and how we can support everyone
Mark McBride: Yeah, that's a good point care. I think you're right. I think we have to maybe that could even be one of the areas that we focus on how do we manage people through change.
Mark McBride: I will also let you know that
Mark McBride: Your oldest will help facilitate each one of these areas and so will take on the responsibility of bringing the groups together recording minutes reporting out to everyone.
Mark McBride: So that we will need everybody to be prepared to work on this, you know, this is one of those volunteer assignments, where we're actually going to ask people to kind of lean in and put some shoulder into it.
Mark McBride: But, you know, we will we will step up and we will help with the coordination of facilitation of these meetings.
Jennifer Smathers: Ellen McGrath noted and chat that some change management webinars were given during the early days of the alma migration project.
Mark McBride: That's a good point.
Mark McBride: Are those recorded anywhere, Shannon.
Shannon Pritting: They were, I would say they were very focused on technological change, so I'm not sure how much they would skill to this.
Shannon Pritting: That's like that they weren't useful but
Mark McBride: Also let you know that last night, I called Roger schonfeld at home and I let him know that Roger schonfeld from Ithaca SNR people don't know the organization. If the guys on our and I'm sure most of you do.
Mark McBride: He, he can be in a group of 40 directors nationally and actually talk through some of the issues they're dealing with, you know,
Mark McBride: With the global pandemic.
Mark McBride: And Roger has agreed to, you know, to kind of add his perspective as well from what he's hearing from outside of Sunni
Mark McBride: But also, he did tell me that two of our directors. He didn't tell me who but he said two directors from SUNY were actually part of that engagement, which was good that we were there, but he would be willing to, you know, offer support if we need any help.
Sarah Weisman: Hi this is Sarah Wiseman soon as we go.
Sarah Weisman: Mark
Sarah Weisman: You mentioned looking at that this group will also look at the strategic plan.
Sarah Weisman: For like 15 so I was one of the people involved in
Sarah Weisman: Getting that you know organizing the group to get that written up myself and Connie holberg I guess my one comment would be that I hope this group will
Sarah Weisman: Thinking in two phases. The kind of the short term, the immediate term and also long term because I think that that 2015 strategic plan was extremely ambitious and I think we have to get through these this initial time first
Mark McBride: Yeah, I agree. I mean, that's part of the reason why I want to make sure that this is just a four week window because I think we have to do something.
Mark McBride: Like a rapid deployment and it should appear at first, but then I agree with you. I mean, looking down the road and thinking I'm
Mark McBride: Thinking long term strategies. I think that's also a way to, you know, this exercise. I think will bring us closer together as a community, and then that you know this. These immediate solutions. I think will also help us with some of our long term conversations. So that's a good point, sir.
Jennifer Smathers: Thanks Sarah. This is Jennifer Smithers and I'm pulling together the virtual conference meeting and starting to step into the longer range planning will be part of that I believe
Mark McBride: Well, I appreciate everybody's time and thanks for the activity in the listserv and helping us kind of kick things into gear. I'll pass it back to you, Shannon.
Shannon Pritting: Right, I have something very, very brief, you know, I figured we talked a fair amount about
Shannon Pritting: Your topics. So just wanted to put this out there, we when we first started to talk about responses to the pandemic.
Shannon Pritting: We were, we were very upfront about, you know, if you needed some help with something. Let us know and we'll do whatever we can.
Shannon Pritting: We've been doing some site visits and, you know, people were saying, well, I'm really frustrated. I've been trying to get
Shannon Pritting: X, Y, and Z working for laptop lending and this fulfillment units not working or the fulfillment unit rules, not working. Um, if you need help with something like that, just let us know. We're here to help in a time that's extremely stressful, you're needing to make changes.
Shannon Pritting: Etc just reach out to us and and we can we can help you out.
Shannon Pritting: So that's really all I have from the shared library services. We had an update yesterday.
Shannon Pritting: With a lot of detailed information about what we're doing. And I'll post the recording of that sometime today. But, you know, just wanted to reiterate that if
Shannon Pritting: You're trying to get something working and some of our help would would relieve some stress will do what we can to to help you. I'll
Shannon Pritting: Turn it over to Mike
Shannon Pritting: Unless there's any questions.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Thanks, Shannon morning everybody. My daily from SUNY oh we are services just got a couple quick updates for you. So shining, go to the next slide.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Mark alluded to this a little bit earlier, there is an increasing exploration and in some cases implementation of inclusive access or I or automatic billing programs.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: On Sunni campuses and these run the gamut from entire campuses on signing contracts with bookstore vendors to offer inclusive access program. So students are automatically billed for course materials.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: To smaller more niche programs were certain departments business seems to be the the tip of the spear in this adventure.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Where certain departments opt in, usually through a bookstore contract provide access to all the course materials that a student would need in a particular degree granting program.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: I feel, and I think you know Mark shares this as well. And the people I've talked to that libraries and librarians are particularly
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: well positioned and uniquely positioned on their campuses to be key participants and stakeholders in these Campus Conversations. This isn't
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Me, saying, you know, you should advocate one way or the other. I think libraries and librarians. See the flow of information how people consume and use
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: course materials and also don't use course materials in ways that other departments and stakeholders on campus don't interact with on a daily basis.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: And so if you have the opportunity on your campus to be involved in those conversations and even perhaps in a real advantageous situation to have a voice in the decisions of those conversations
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: I would encourage you to take those opportunities. Of course, this is a direct counterpoint to what Mark just said that you know all of us are taking on more work and having less people to do that work.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: But if this opportunity arise, and there's bandwidth in your organization, you know, definitely consider
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Being involved. To that end, the third point Florida is academic library services cooperative is hosting an informational webinar next week. This is being led by Florida Virtual college as well as US perk.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: The student interest portion of US per egg which recently released a automatic billing white paper pretty well documented.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Resource the webinars responding to publish your course material proposals.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: It looks to be a very good introduction at a primer for those of you who might be new to this topic. And for those of you who are already engaged in this topic and need some
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Additional talking points. It's a free webinar. There's no registration required and the access does require you to email The email link is on the slide.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: For the web connection link. I'll be joining that webinar and certainly encourage others who are interested to join me as well.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Next slide in.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: THE FINAL UPDATE ON. Some of you may know tsuneo we are services. A couple years ago stood up really kind of duct tape Band Aid approach to offering
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Sunni faculty who were seeking to use open educational resources but wanted a traditionally printed
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Textbook or a PDF file. We had one person in our, in our organization Amanda Wentworth leading that operation, she did an excellent job with it and really put together.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: A model that faculty appreciated her position has shifted at SUNY Geneseo should be shifting out of that role and out of direct relationship with Sunni or services. We are thankful
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: To have established a new relationship with the Sunni press. Some of you familiar with the Sunni, Sunni traditional Academic Press. They have a new director Tim's Tewkesbury Tim has been really
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: gung ho to further, further and strengthen ties with Sunni. Oh, we are so at the end of this academic year, if not even a little bit sooner.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: The Sunni press will be taking over control of production and printing of customize our textbooks in PDF files as adapted and requested by sooty faculty
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: The press has already reached out to faculty who are but there's about 70 or so across the system, who are using our existing tsuneo we are workflows.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: It's hard to gauge their interest going forward. So they've already begun some indication
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: As the final details of this program are established will be sharing those out on this call and other communication outlets, but we were certainly welcome the presence of the Sunni press in this operation which is proven to be appreciated by sooty faculty and students.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: That's all I have. Thanks for posting that link.
Jennifer Smathers: No problem.
Jennifer Smathers: Hi folks, the SLC board met yesterday and you can go on. It's okay. Shannon and the, the major thing we had to consider was the board response to the budget issues.
Jennifer Smathers: Mark alerted us that the funds that SLC had been held by all lists were being flagged at the state level for
Jennifer Smathers: Some closer analysis to see what it was used for or would be used for. And so the board had to debate and consider what was the best way to encumber and or expand those funds and given the current situation.
Jennifer Smathers: The, the following three things were decided upon, and mostly it fell into it was these three things or lose the money.
Jennifer Smathers: to oversimplify a complicated process. So the first thing that the board definitely decided for is that we will not have a membership fee for years fiscal year 20 2021. The reason for that is because we have enough existing funds to do what we need to do. So it's a one time sort of
Jennifer Smathers: Release from that obligation, with the hope that this little amount would or not so little amount in some cases would help libraries with what's going to be a very difficult budget year
Jennifer Smathers: Additionally, that that still leaves some money in the budget and the board voted to invest those funds and extending those SUNY library support services that SLS is
Jennifer Smathers: Shannon and his staff have been provided a you may recall from from discussions, way back when, during our migration that the provost was going to support SLS s for two years.
Jennifer Smathers: And then libraries would be held responsible for that support this will be shifting that a year and then the remaining funds which are to cover half of my salary through 2022 and anticipated expenditures for the next in person SLC meeting will be managed by all us
Jennifer Smathers: There were a lot of different things discussed and looked at, but when it came down to it, this was really the only way to ensure that those funds would absolutely be used for library needs instead of being swept up at a state or campus level.
Jennifer Smathers: Next slide please. Shannon
Jennifer Smathers: So the virtual meeting for this spring is going to be on. We're going to have it run June 8 through the 10th.
Jennifer Smathers: Again, there will be no registration fee, although we will have some registration needs to ask them some questions about you, folks. It is open to all of SLC
Jennifer Smathers: That means, you know, in the past, because it was an in person meeting. A lot of times, you would have just the director representing campus library or maybe the director and one other person.
Jennifer Smathers: In this virtual setting, we don't really need to limit attendance, we should be able to expand it out so attendance is encouraged, there will be breakout rooms available so
Jennifer Smathers: There are plans to at different points in the agenda break people out into similar areas of interest, such as functional areas.
Jennifer Smathers: The administrators in a room that research sharing in another room. We're hoping to have some virtually social events and you can
Jennifer Smathers: Make up what virtually social means for yourself. We'll see what will happen there. And then this is all under development still so it will be done via zoom and we will get an agenda together and registration together, but it's not ready yet.
Jennifer Smathers: Any questions on that.
Jennifer Smathers: Okay.
Jennifer Smathers: Thanks, Shannon. And then finally, this is just a reminder about the the vote for SLC board is ongoing.
Jennifer Smathers: My understanding is, we have about 25 libraries that have voted. So if your library hasn't voted, please take a look at this great slate of candidates and let us know by the end of next week.
Jennifer Smathers: Thanks. Any questions.
Shannon Pritting: Let's open it up for questions on anything.
Sarah Weisman: Hi.
Sarah Weisman: This is Sarah Wiseman and I'll ask a question, is there can. I'm sure there is. So can you direct us to a place on the website where
Sarah Weisman: Everybody's title and duties are listed out or you know roughly the role is listed out because I'm finding i'm i'm
Sarah Weisman: Confused with some of the spillover between what's happening with the primo migration versus what's happening with SLC so that would be really helpful if there was some kind of listing like that you could point us to that.
Shannon Pritting: There is, I am a little constrained with getting that web page up, let me try it. Let's see.
Jennifer Smathers: So the link I just added there is the board members.
Jennifer Smathers: To get you to who's on on the board and probably some of your confusion Sarah's probably because I am half SLC and half SLS s. So, I myself am I'm a bit of a model there.
Jennifer Smathers: But it's proving to be a great crosswalk, I think, between the two organizations.
Maureen: I'm Sarah. This is Maureen zukowski Wendy Ackerman, and I had been working with Mark about redoing the landing page for always
Maureen: It's it's under Sunni connect@suny.edu and we've been working on.
Maureen: With the help of Shannon and his team to create a page in the live guides that would list out all staff, not just SL SS, but everyone associated with with all us and what their roles are so we're working on getting that up.
Sarah Weisman: Great, thank you.
Shannon Pritting: I'm Mark Do you know anything about this season asked is fall semester online course decision going to be made by Sunni or up to each campus.
Shannon Pritting: Knows if that's been just
Mark McBride: Yeah, I can.
Shannon Pritting: Tell you
Mark McBride: Yeah, it hasn't been necessarily decided yet so I do know this and I mentioned it last week that
Mark McBride: Problem is Todd LARSON IS joined a group of academic leaders.
Mark McBride: Across eight on their meeting on a regular basis to actually talk about this topic state ed is also part of that discussion.
Mark McBride: I think, I think that once once there is clarity about what the situation looks like for the fall that will be brought to everyone's attention immediately. You know, I'm not sure you know what what what is in store for the fall on but i would i would probably assume that we will be
Mark McBride: In a more remote environment. But, you know, no decisions have been made yet, but I think the sense everybody has right now is that it's going to be very difficult to imagine us going back to, you know, business as usual come the fall semester.
Jennifer Smathers: We have a question.
Jennifer Smathers: From Nikki.
Mark McBride: As soon as I have more information. I'll share with the community.
Shannon Pritting: Nikki, can you unmute yourself and
Shannon Pritting: Talk a little bit about what you mean with control digital
Nickie: Lending yeah I knew, you're going to do that.
Nickie: So we're looking at as a means of
Nickie: Providing a digital surrogate to a print to whatever. So, you know, feeling something in print and controlling the lending to people of the digital. You know, the one on one. If we own it in print, create a digital copy
Nickie: Which, you know, MIT is doing a Boston public. So I just want to know if anybody else is doing something similar.
Shannon Pritting: So you're digitizing the entire book and then controlling the the access to it.
Nickie: We're thinking about that. Yes.
Nickie: We're not doing it yet.
Nickie: We like to
Shannon Pritting: Nikki, could you put your email address in case anybody
Shannon Pritting: Show. That's it, yeah.
Nickie: Okay, so if anybody is doing the other knows anybody else doing that. Could you please let me know. Thanks.
Shannon Pritting: Thank you.
Nickie: Yeah.
Mark McBride: I'm con County. I see your question in there about the state budget proposing a 50% cut to community colleges I I'll, I'll get a response from our business office on that.
Mark McBride: The only conversations I've had recently in terms of the budget is really our own internal budget. I haven't talked to anybody outside of outside of our business office, but let me, let me see if I can get a response to that that
Mark McBride: These are these certainly are difficult times.
Mark McBride: So, Brenda, if you could, if you could unmute for a second.
Mark McBride: One was the academic senate meeting was it recently.
Brenda Hazard: Yeah, it was Monday.
Mark McBride: It was on Monday we they announced it
Brenda Hazard: You know, they said, I'm 30 to 50% reduction in state.
Brenda Hazard: State aid expected
Shannon Pritting: Other questions, feel free to put into chat or unmute yourself.
Jennifer Smathers: So in chat. There was a question about other institutions doing that digital document sharing and Nikki hasn't contacted them yet.
Jennifer Smathers: But it looks like they're using internet archives as an access points so
Jennifer Smathers: I'm sure Nikki would be happy to share what she finds out with us.
Nickie: I will absolutely
Jennifer Smathers: Thank you. Nikki.
You're welcome.
Shannon Pritting: Jennifer at at Cortland was saying that they're discussing potentially using
Shannon Pritting: The OMA digitization requests or the doc delivery option here to potentially I'm assuming to potentially provide some access to
Shannon Pritting: print materials.
Yes.
Shannon Pritting: Other questions, comments.
Shannon Pritting: Yeah. Mustafa asked regarding the recent email and and corresponding responses about
Shannon Pritting: Library staffing. Is there a site or a doc that compiles
Shannon Pritting: Library staffing statistics across Sunni, this would be helpful for benchmarking.
Shannon Pritting: Mark, I think you have somebody working on that right
Mark McBride: Yeah so Connie parent is actually monitoring the list and she's collecting all that information that is being populated there and putting it into one document if a campus did not respond to that thread will initiate conversations or reach out to those directors and try to get information.
Mark McBride: If I remember correctly Mustafa we we've done this a few times, as a community, and it usually as a result of a campus or to facing some sort of budget concerns of now. I think this is probably going to apply to all of us. So
Mark McBride: You know, we'll collect that information and I'll share that once we have everything
Mark McBride: Comprised into one document. Yeah.
Mustafa Sakarya: Thanks I appreciate that mark.
Maureen: Here. Mark This is Maureen has that building on Karen from Farmingdale posted out a link to a Google Doc, was she was collecting this information. A couple years ago is kind of building on that or
Mark McBride: No, she's building off the list, sir, but I document, whether
Maureen: Okay. Because, Connie. I mean, I'm sorry, Karen, I don't know if she's on the call. But in her email to the directors list. She had said, you know, feel free to share us an update.
Maureen: So anyway, just
Shannon Pritting: Thank you. Yeah. And Amy brought up that it
Shannon Pritting: I think it varied um it varied weather report respondents were including librarians and overall staff or just librarians. So you know that will have to
Shannon Pritting: You know that it might. It might not be the exact picture that everyone's looking for. So I guess we can do a first iteration and then see what else we can get from there.
Mark McBride: Right and Brenda Brenda brought up a good point about the about sharing that information on broadly rounded the whole the real purpose would be to share this
Mark McBride: Just with the directors and their libraries will start with the directors, we don't, we weren't going to, we don't plan on sharing this broadly.
Shannon Pritting: Yeah, Jill asked a good question and I received some questions related to the MLS
Shannon Pritting: Information and program about reopening plans and and I would hope we would get some timelines on that relatively soon. I have an email out about it, but it's a great question that Jill is asking is that
Shannon Pritting: Do any campuses have a reopening plan ready for when restrictions are lifted in New York.
Shannon Pritting: And I think, you know,
Shannon Pritting: How is the library playing a role in that would also be a good question too.
Jennifer Smathers: And that was actually talked about briefly at the SLC board meeting yesterday as well. And we're going to stick on the coven live guide will stick another tab for reopening plans. When we have some things to populate there as well as links to the output of what I MLS has
Jennifer Smathers: Come up with
Jennifer Smathers: So we've got a few people dialed in. So I'm just going to sort of summarize in the chat. There's a lot of questions about reopening plans. A lot of notes about how
Jennifer Smathers: There are nuances regarding the staffing information Theresa points out that their library and says, acting directors, there are 910 and 12 month positions part time could mean anything from 10 to 30 hours, etc.
Jennifer Smathers: Jamestown is we are working on reopening plan as is upstate
Jennifer Smathers: Some folks have been told, they'll be working remotely until August. That looks like Polytechnic
Jennifer Smathers: And Sunni law was also gathering some information on reopening plans. It looks like. Thanks, Mike.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: No, I'm sorry. JOHN they were gathering data on staffing levels of
Jennifer Smathers: staffing levels. Okay.
Jennifer Smathers: And then I think the last thing we hadn't discussed at all.
Jennifer Smathers: We have if anyone's interested in the concept of control digital lending, check out the website control digital lending.org. Thank you.
Jennifer Smathers: And then I there has been an ugly URL for you be planning shared as well.
Jennifer Smathers: It's rather long I'll stick that in the in the coven guide.
Jennifer Smathers: When you're ready to if that's ready for prime time, Alan, let me know.
Jennifer Smathers: And Christina Pope says, we also need to consider the status of K 12 reopening
Shannon Pritting: Which I think is going to be discussed today, right.
Michael Daly -SUNY OER: Correct.
Shannon Pritting: All right, other questions.
Jennifer Smathers: Sarah brings up that public library reopening is could also impact what's going on in our facilities.
Jennifer Smathers: Christina Pope shares that she's heard that some public libraries will not be able to reopen in the short term due to staff on availability.
Jennifer Smathers: And summer story times in person programming is likely very cancelled.
Shannon Pritting: Other questions, comments.
Jennifer Smathers: And Michelle I will share. I will share reopening plans begin the coven 19
Jennifer Smathers: Live guide. So when people have once they're ready to have shared, I'm happy to put them there.
Jennifer Smathers: And we do still have that
Jennifer Smathers: Base Camp, as you point out, so if you want something if you want to share something there, but not have it on the live guide. Please. Please note that
Shannon Pritting: All right, any other questions.
Shannon Pritting: Okay.
Shannon Pritting: So it looks like
Shannon Pritting: We're good with questions. I'm going to stop the recording.