Cori Wilhelm: We are recording we can start
Maureen Clements: great.
It looks like Kim does have to take a quick phone call, so we can just get started, and i'll just do the the quick intro, and what we can do is maybe when Kim's available will come back to those slides.
Maureen Clements: Okay, great.
Maureen Clements: all right. So, as I mentioned Jim Escalzo, our interim Senior Associate Provost for digital Innovation academic services she'll be. She'll be back with us. But today's agenda Thank you. So much for everyone for coming, and this is the oldest update for May 2023.
Maureen Clements: We're going to be giving updates on the strategic plan as well as all this updates that's gonna be Kathryn Staller, Peters. And then Katherine is also going to be giving an update on the research data management.
Maureen Clements: Then we'll head to the oer, and professional development updates from Corey, and then we're gonna flute right into the Sunny library services. Tim is going to give us an update about the eld, and then i'll RAM round it out. So
Maureen Clements: all right, let's get started.
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Catherine Stollar Peters: All right, Katherine. Great? Well, it's nice to see so many people here this afternoon. I'm: going to be providing the updates on some. All this administration updates and information on a few Ola's activities. We've been very busy.
Catherine Stollar Peters: If you'd like to switch to the next slide.
Catherine Stollar Peters: That'd be great. We've we're in a period of growth and change. Recently we transitioned from a Sunni libraries, consortium, independent organization, governance model to an integrated governance framework soliciting input on Ola's work from an oldest advisory board.
Catherine Stollar Peters: The new Advisory Board is composed of representatives from various stakeholder groups, including each campus sector.
Catherine Stollar Peters: The next slide presents the latest work of that board. Additionally, we've updated our mission statement at Olis, and more details on updates to our strategic planning documents are available on our website listed here.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So for our advisory Board
Catherine Stollar Peters: our work has just begun, and many of our initial meetings have been ironing out administrative concepts for running the Advisory Board. So they've been a ton of fun. It's been great to have so many people develop a devote their time to help us coordinate that or that new existence of the oldest Advisory Board.
Catherine Stollar Peters: All the staff have been reporting on strategic planning processes, soliciting feedback and advice, and this group is intended as a sounding board providing future focused forward thinking perspective on the needs of libraries. Within Sunni
Catherine Stollar Peters: we're dedicated to providing the agendas for those meetings 2 weeks prior to each meeting for distribution to campus sectors and stakeholders.
Catherine Stollar Peters: After a period of a few monthly meetings, we've determined that call quarterly meetings will help us keep our work on track and connected to the needs of our stakeholders.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Some specific activities that have been include completed include a new mission statement for the Advisory Board and a form on the website for you to directly contact the Advisory Board with questions or feedback. You can access that form here at the Advisory Board Link.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So a whole hard to think goes out. Thanks. Goes out to those Advisory Board members, giving their time to help us guide the work of Bolus next slide.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Some of the work that we've been doing includes a discussion of our all this foundation strategic plan covering the years 23 to 2026.
Catherine Stollar Peters: It's an ambitious plan. With the following goals.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We presented about these: goals in our February update, and mentioned a few documents that we were developing.
Catherine Stollar Peters: One of the documents is a one page metric which we will use to benchmark achieving our strategic plan. So if you can go to the next slide.
Catherine Stollar Peters: This is what that metrics document looks like. It's shown here, and it's available on our website.
Catherine Stollar Peters: The document connects our oldest vision, the oldest mission, and the audience to whom we serve with the Chancellor's vision, that Kim will share with us very shortly. Our metrics demonstrate direct accountability for our definition of success. Next slide
Catherine Stollar Peters: a second document we are crafting is a roadmap, and it line by line documents, progress toward our strategic goals.
Catherine Stollar Peters: This document presents a detailed progress indicator on activities outlined in the strategic plan as well as the core. Sunni Library services, continual processes not specifically mentioned in the strategic plan. So the red yellow and green indicators in a stoplight protocol show where we're headed, and how much work we have to complete
Catherine Stollar Peters: This plan ranges from 2023 to 26. So you can see that in this image there's a lot of red. It means we haven't started as much and that red area, but it is a 3 year plan.
Catherine Stollar Peters: The areas that we've made the most progress in is navigating our complex change, and our own governance models within all this developing communication streams for soliciting community input and sharing out that information.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Our work in professional development and leadership training work on boarding, new staff.
Catherine Stollar Peters: integrating all this work into the digital library environment, our work in research data management and supporting oh, read, and their efforts to support research activities across campuses.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So, combining these 2 documents next slide. Please
Catherine Stollar Peters: let's talk about all this and sunny library services by the numbers for a few minutes. So some of our initial work in data driven decision making has encouraged us to document the work of all this functional areas.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We plan to highlight statistics like these in our annual report that will be available at the end of the academic year. So
Catherine Stollar Peters: by the numbers we've
Catherine Stollar Peters: in the past few years, and in this academic year 5 million intellectual print resources are accessible to the broader, sunny community. 200,000 sunny Connect journal titles are available. We've had over 1 million downloads from our institutional repositories. The sunny digital repository and sunny open access repository. Our Il book and article service has a shared over 2020, 20,
Catherine Stollar Peters: 222,500 items in this till now in this academic year, and we have an incredible amount of work documented in 80 vendor accessibility reviews
Catherine Stollar Peters: and 59 of our campuses are participating in opt in contracts that Sunni Sls supports.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So what to all of these numbers mean for campuses next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We've calculated an estimated total campus savings of about 7.7 million dollars.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We calculated that building an integrated library services platform enabling shared Medic that bibliographic metadata and shared resources through I in our library loan, as well as 2 Sunni institutional repositories, has saved campuses about an aggregated 1.3 million dollars.
Catherine Stollar Peters: leveraging our shared negotiating efforts and staff time and collaborative power. We've saved campuses nearly 5.9, 5 million dollars.
Catherine Stollar Peters: and providing extra contracted support services to campuses. We've been able to save an additional 20 campuses, $430,000. These are some broad estimates.
Catherine Stollar Peters: but we're we're estimating this this impact of all of these metrics and all these numbers into something in the range of about 7.7 million dollars. So
Catherine Stollar Peters: I think that's that's a pretty great number, and very proud of those.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So in the area of communications we have a few updates.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Information is available broadly through the Sunni Library list. Serve, and if you haven't signed up. Now is a good time to sign up.
Catherine Stollar Peters: I didn't paste this communication link in the chat, but if someone wants to piece that that'd be great. so to sign up for the list. Serve, there's a a link right now in the chat. Additionally, we share a specific technical information about all, not primo and any other contractual questions through our base camp site that's still active.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We provide information through our website and some general updates on our blog
Catherine Stollar Peters: or updates like this that we schedule quarterly or a good way for and for shared information about all this. We have them scheduled throughout the remainder of the year until December.
Catherine Stollar Peters: and in a a a broad swath, glancing at the work that all this has conducted recently will present that in an annual report, hopefully at the end of this summer.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Other ways that we're at leveraging. The
Catherine Stollar Peters: connections of all this with other libraries is through our communities of practice updates. We have 3 active communities of practice, including the library leaders, community of practice. That is the sunny Library's director meeting that happens June First, our scholarly communications. Community of practice is happening this Thursday, May eighteenth. At 100'clock we'll be looking at orchid connections and implementation at Sunni.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Additionally, we just recently had an oer lead meeting, and those fall dates are set, the first occurring. What! We'll take a little bit of time off this summer, and then next meeting for that the way our leads community of practice will be September fourteenth.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Another way that all this has been connecting with the broader Sunni community is by participating in the fact. To task group leveraging the dle. The goal is to investigate and foster sharing and the potential of a sunny, wide learning, object, repository in bright space.
Catherine Stollar Peters: All this is participating in a few ways. We're hoping to make sure there's no duplication with our existing institutional repositories for permanent long term retention, learning, objects, and hoping that the lore, this learning, object, repository, is something that could be utilized or active use materials shared among those engaging in teaching and learning activities. We're also providing some guidance on metadata and submission processes for learning objects within that
learning object repository, and there should be some report out to the broad community about this lore relatively soon.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: One specific activity. I'd like to share some information with you about is research data management, and we have a sunny lip guide that I can put a link to
Catherine Stollar Peters: in the chat right now. Olis is working with Cpd to prepare some training options for research data management. We're investigating the best model to meet the needs for librarians and those who are supporting research on campuses.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We have this lib guide which has information for both researchers and library librarians and administrators. And then research data management and we're looking at best practices and models and frameworks that exist to share out.
Catherine Stollar Peters: In the spring of 2023, we developed a small research data management task group that includes members across the Sunni system and campuses as well as members from the Research Foundation campus, sponsored programs offices. And O read one initial output of that was an environmental scan to determine campus capacity and current institutional readiness for supporting research data work.
Catherine Stollar Peters: We found that there is definite need for it. More training as well as Sunni specific models and frameworks
Catherine Stollar Peters: for building campus capacity and support for creating, for developing a research data management, not only in the library, but with other groups on campus as well.
Catherine Stollar Peters: One of the direct ways that we are supporting this effort is through Dryad Dryad Sunni Olis has one of the first consortium members Institutional memberships for Dryat
Catherine Stollar Peters: Sunni. It's a generalist data publishing repository. The website to Dryad is here.
Catherine Stollar Peters: and for most campuses that are not, you see, who may have their own institutional membership in Dryad there is availability for Sunni researchers on your campus to publish data in dryad. Assuming there's no domain specific repository for data publishing that may exist already for those researchers.
Catherine Stollar Peters: User Groups are coming soon for those campuses who may be participating in that next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So this is what the dryad submission interface looks like as well as just what it would look like for 1 one data set.
Catherine Stollar Peters: If you think this might be useful for your campus researchers to have access to a generalist repository for publishing data either related to Grant funding or related to
Catherine Stollar Peters: just data that they're creating on campus. Then let us know. Send us a ticket, and we can work to set up IP Authentication Next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: Other work occurring in Sunni is a system. A Sunni system led orchid task force.
Catherine Stollar Peters: This will land will involve librarians this summer with Sunni O. Read, and Rf. Led researcher workshops for doctorals and comprehensive. So these will be given by Sudani. O read staff, but they will be about not only orchid in general why researchers would need to create their own orchid records, but also why at Sunni it would be useful to
Catherine Stollar Peters: to participate in revealing your research output for coordinated large scale grants, and also to harness connections between grant applications and publication records. Next slide, please.
Catherine Stollar Peters: So we'll move on to O. Our services, professional development and engagement. Corey will be presenting on that before she does I wanted to mention one thing we recently launched. We are grants.
Catherine Stollar Peters: These were due last Friday 54 grant proposals were received from 29 campuses. There were large scale adoption projects as well as we are creation projects, and about half campuses ask for about funding up to about $15,000, and the other
Catherine Stollar Peters: half of requests, for we're up to $30,000. Grants will be announced, may thirtieth, and that has been a really exciting opportunity to see how we can support. We are on campus. Thank you.
Cori Wilhelm: and I just want to add a few people on this call are involved in the Grants review process the Peer review process. Thank you. Thank you for your time. We got a lot more grant proposals than we may be expected, but that's a great problem to have. So
Cori Wilhelm: thanks for your help. With that I did want to mention 3 other partnership grants. These are not new, but we wanted to just bring them to everyone's attention again, because we are still accepting
Cori Wilhelm: campuses for each of these grants, so digital promise is partnering with the Gates foundation, and they focus on making statistics, courseware, inclusive and equitable. They're using feedback from the Lumen learning, testing center at Rockland Community College
Cori Wilhelm: to change the statistics courseware and person excuse me participating at faculty, receive an honorarium for that, and the campuses do as well for data reporting.
Cori Wilhelm: The next is with Carnegie Mellon's online learning initiative for open learning, initiative, general, organic, and biochemistry. This is a fellows program that
Cori Wilhelm: aims to bring together committee to develop
Cori Wilhelm: on you. Be courseware, and materials.
Cori Wilhelm: I am finally the
Cori Wilhelm: community engaged courseware for STEM success we call it
Cori Wilhelm: that is, looking to improve outcomes for STEM learners at community colleges with an emphasis on traditionally underserved students.
Cori Wilhelm: And again, we're looking for participants. This is going to be community colleges.
Cori Wilhelm: you know.
Cori Wilhelm: for courses focusing on STEM learners.
Cori Wilhelm: And if you're interested in any of these grants. If you know faculty on your campus, who are definitely reach out to Sunny or our services to Tony or myself, and we can get you some additional information.
Cori Wilhelm: I wanted to refresh everyone also on the sunny oer training courses. These are offered through Sunni o our services, website.
Cori Wilhelm: and they are free to everyone in soon either interactive courses where you basically start with just understanding. O, we are and what is, O, we are which most of you probably already know, and then slowly develop your skills throughout the series of courses. You can take one or all.
Cori Wilhelm: and you do get badges through credibility for completing the courses. They've all been revamped a bit
Cori Wilhelm: from the Pre Covid times, so we would love, you know, some more interaction with them, and with the feedback. If you do take the courses
Cori Wilhelm: also through to our services, and our partner Lumen learning, we are offering lemon circles again this summer and fall, and these are
Cori Wilhelm: fellowships mainly focused on teaching faculty. But we do have the lum and self-paced course, in belonging for educators that many librarians have taken and and do find useful.
Cori Wilhelm: But basically these explore evidence-based practices reflect on teaching experiences and
Cori Wilhelm: help the faculty develop their skills in a number of areas. And we did just want to share. These are the Lumen circles numbers so far, so we've had 800 faculty successfully complete. This is through spring 2,023,
Cori Wilhelm: representing 58 sunny institutions. So we're really pleased with these numbers and if you're curious about your own campus, the numbers are here on the side
Cori Wilhelm: Rockland Community College is currently kicking everyone's, but so maybe we can get some campuses to challenge them and have more people participate. These are free to all sunny educators right now, so please encourage your faculty to take advantage of them.
Cori Wilhelm: The library professional development needs survey. We sent out through Sunny Center for professional development.
Cori Wilhelm: This survey we would love to hear from all library folks that's
Cori Wilhelm: directors, assistant directors, librarians, professional staff. Anybody in the library who has a professional development need. It takes about 10 min at the most, 5 to 10 min to take, but it will really help guide us in planning professional development for next year.
Cori Wilhelm: So if you Haven't, please complete the survey in the next few weeks, please share it with your staff. If you're not sure we just send it out on the list. Serve, and we posted it on the blog, but we know not. Everybody is tuned into every communication channel, so please share it out. I went through
Cori Wilhelm: the results so far this morning, and it's already been really helpful to say, we're we're not interested in hearing more about this. We really want to hear more about this that will help us for next year.
Cori Wilhelm: And then, lastly, the library, leadership and management certificate program launched this past academic year as a Friday. We still had one course
Cori Wilhelm: to finish the grades up and be added, but we had 31 participants. almost all from Sunni, but we did have a few non sunny folks.
Cori Wilhelm: We had 67 successfully completed courses. And again, this is not including the last course, and that's individuals taking the courses because some people obviously took more than one and 11 participants so far earned the library, leadership and management certificate
Cori Wilhelm: through Cpd. That means they completed 3 courses successfully. We are hoping to run it again for the fall.
Cori Wilhelm: We'd love feedback if you took a course we did have a survey, but not everyone received it. So please reach out. Let us know. Let us know if there's something you're interested in. We we didn't offer.
Cori Wilhelm: and we'll move on to Sls updates, and I think Tim will be starting with eld.
Timothy Jackson: Yes, thank you, Corey. So I just want to give you all an update on where things stand with the new eld contract.
Timothy Jackson: Aslin sent out the final pricing
Timothy Jackson: for the contract to library directors on April 20, seventh, 5 day service will be $8,160 per year for day will be $6,740 per year.
Timothy Jackson: 3 day service will be $5,320 per year.
Timothy Jackson: and 2 day service will be $3,900 a year. So these prices are a little bit higher than the initial estimates that were sent out earlier this spring, but fortunately the final price didn't end up going
Timothy Jackson: up too much, and I know she's not here today, but I do want to take a brief moment to say a huge, huge Thank you to Maria Ticketino from Eslin for all of the work that she did to keep these prices as low as they can possibly be.
Timothy Jackson: So a huge Thank you to Maria.
Timothy Jackson: When Maria sent out those prices on April 20, seventh, She also sent out membership agreements that need to be signed
Timothy Jackson: by all of the participating libraries. Those signed membership agreements are due this Friday, May nineteenth. So if you Haven't returned that to Eslin, please do so as soon as you can.
Timothy Jackson: Also I know a lot of campuses that are on September to August fiscal years add expressed concerns about how billing for eld would work, since the bills would be sent out in July.
Timothy Jackson: Maureen and I met with Maria and Kathy Gundrum from Eslin, and they have agreed
Timothy Jackson: to an alternate billing arrangement for those campuses that are on a September to August Fiscal year.
Timothy Jackson: I sent out an email to all of those library directors on Friday.
Timothy Jackson: detailing that arrangement. If you're if you're at one of the September to August fiscal your campuses, and you didn't receive that email. Please let me know
Timothy Jackson: next slide, please.
Timothy Jackson: So the majority of Sunni libraries will be reducing El D service Once new contract goes into effect. On July First, 14 campuses have chosen to stay with 5 day service, but we have 5 campuses that have reduced to 4 day.
Timothy Jackson: 23 campuses that have reduced to 3 day service 8 campuses that have reduced to 2 day services, and we also have 4 campuses that will be receiving Elv. Service via Rlc.
Timothy Jackson: We have a couple of campuses that will be receiving service via Syracuse University.
Timothy Jackson: and we do have 4 sunny campuses that did decide to drop the service.
Timothy Jackson: Naturally, all of this has the potential to impact request turnaround times, because our Alma resource sharing rotos are currently configured, based on the fact that all sunny libraries are on 5 day Elv service. But now that
Timothy Jackson: many campuses will be reducing service, we need to reconfigure those rotas to minimize the impact the service reduction will have on request turnaround times. So Sls has been working with the access, services and resource, sharing, working group and our shared career task force
Timothy Jackson: on how we should be managing our rotas. Going forward. We plan to meet again tomorrow.
Timothy Jackson: and our plan is to implement the new Rotas in late May or early June basically as soon as we can agree on a plan. And I have the time to do the configuration work. And once we do agree on the plan. I will be posting that plan to base camp, so you can all see it
Timothy Jackson: like I said. The
Timothy Jackson: The changes to service won't be happening until July first, but we would like to get the new Rotas in place as soon as possible, because we want to give ourselves enough time to evaluate those rotas and make any adjustments that are necessary
Timothy Jackson: before the fall semester starts. So like, I said, we we hope to get everything configured in late May or early June, and then we'll see how things go over the summer, and then we will adjust the road as in mid- August, if necessary.
Timothy Jackson: Next slide, please.
Timothy Jackson: Also, Sls has been working with Connect New York on an Alma resource sharing partnership. We did
Timothy Jackson: already managed to add Kenisha's College to our Alma rotas back in September. That's been going very well. I've done a lot of work with both Vassar and West Point.
Timothy Jackson: and currently it looks like we'll be able to add them into our road, as sometime later, this month or early June. I will let you all know when I have firmer dates for that
Timothy Jackson: also I have started working with Siena College and Mary's College, and the goal is to get them added to our rotas by the end of this summer. So between now and the start of the fall semester, we should have at least 4 more or new libraries in New York State.
Timothy Jackson: In our all my resource sharing rotas
Timothy Jackson: also. I've been working a lot with Saint John Fisher University. They're They're no longer St. John Fisher College. They are now a university.
Timothy Jackson: We've been working on sending requests directly from Alma to their Iliad, via the Iso protocol. Right now we're doing this with the 7 or 8 campuses. It's going really well, and I've been working with Courtney Blackburn at St. John Fisher on expanding that partnership, and
Timothy Jackson: we Pan, we plan to keep expanding it throughout the summer, and i'll be reaching out to libraries that I think may be interested as we do that. But if this is something your library is interested in doing now. Please let me know, and I can. I can work with St. John Fisher on getting them into your rotas.
Timothy Jackson: and sadly to kind of cycle back to the eld thing Nazareth College, who has been in our Alma Rotas, and has been a really great partner for us for a couple of years now. Unfortunately, they had to drop in the eld service.
Timothy Jackson: They are in the Rochester area. They will still be on the Rrlc. Career.
Timothy Jackson: So places like Brockport and Genesia will still be able to borrow from them directly and send things via a courier. But for the rest of you i'm afraid you'll need to use some other shipping method.
Timothy Jackson: get the postal Service or Fedex to send and receive items from Nazareth College.
Timothy Jackson: so I will be reaching out to all of the libraries that are participating in all the resource, sharing with N. N. N Nas. With college soon to make sure that you still want them in your rotos, and if you don't I will remove them for you.
Timothy Jackson: So that's everything I had. So I will pass it on to marine.
Maureen Clements: Great. Thank you so much, Tim. i'm going to start talking about collections.
Maureen Clements: So, as you know, Ogs, the the contracts have been enabled, and we have several new vendors. These contracts go to 2,027, and put a link in the chat there, and 2 new contract vendors that we have are wiley and sage.
Maureen Clements: We recently just had stage provide, You know, an update with us last week about the different products that they have available on the contract. And right before we had this meeting. They shared that video. So i'm going to share that video link
Maureen Clements: in the chat, and we'll update that later on
Maureen Clements: through Ellis, the Lsp.
Maureen Clements: Additionally, we. I just wanted to briefly mention as well the Ogs review that we know about in terms of the $200,000 for Ogs invoices, and 75,000 for Sunni contracts.
Maureen Clements: We do know that it is a challenge, and we are sort of all under the same scrutiny. There we are, we are looking at and be thinking about ways that we can potentially consolidate or use some of our third party vendors, such as Ebsco and Harassowitz, which are both on the Ogs system might be a little bit easier to get things through.
Maureen Clements: and we're also gonna find out more this summer, both of our Epsco and our Avon invoices do our over the $200,000 threshold, so we'll find out a little bit more about that as well. How that process works. With these 2 changes.
Maureen Clements: the ebook Task Group. As I mentioned last time we have slowed this down a little bit, and some of the changes that were happening at all this. So we are revising our timeline. But I did want to mention that, and also to in terms of some of the procurement questions that we have had coming up. So this is some things that are slowing us down a little bit.
Maureen Clements: But this summer we are going to be working with the Ebook Task group to review models and vendors on the Ogs system. We just recently heard about this new
Maureen Clements: on the Ontario Council of University libraries recently announced a pilot with Wiley about some evidence based acquisitions, and so that potentially be something we'd be interested in. And I see that Sarah also mentioned that you know it's not easier getting things through just because they are on the Ojs contracts, and we we do know that so
Maureen Clements: procurement is a is always a challenge. So
Maureen Clements: next slide.
Maureen Clements: and on continuing that theme of challenging for collections, just to give you a brief update about what's happening with art store. We are still in legal negotiations. The current art store contract expired in December, 2022 and we Don't have an active agreement with them.
Shannon Pruding and are both working on with our legal team to try to get a contract in place and extension until June thirtieth 2024. So we will keep you updated on that.
Maureen Clements: We know that the time is coming close, but we really we're hopefully. We'll be able to get something through, but we just we just Don't know.
Maureen Clements: and additionally Jay store, which is also part of Ithaca, both Arts, or in Jason or part of Ithaca. They recently introduced a new Mo. A fee model where they were allowing the community colleges to have
Maureen Clements: all in the the entire J. Store package
Maureen Clements: for us a reduced fee. So, but in some cases there were a few colleges that might not have been getting the whole package, or only bought one or 2 products. So what we're also doing is that we are working with our to Esther and Shannon are working with our
Maureen Clements: procurement team to amend the current. Excuse me the contract team to amend the current J. Store contract, so that we can pay the recharge for you the new fee model, and will be more to come on that as well.
Maureen Clements: Our J store contract does expire in June thirtieth 2,024, and because there is a lot of difficulties with J. Store.
we started looking at what the potential future would look like
Maureen Clements: going forward. So
Maureen Clements: we don't know we're going to be continuing
Maureen Clements: discussions with J. Store, and we'll just see how that goes. But June thirtieth 2,024 is the is the deadline, and and we're not sure what's going to happen? So
Maureen Clements: we do know that the J. Store group. The J. Stored Task group did vote to not do an all in contract. It would be an opt in. So that does give us a little more of
Maureen Clements: all right, Can you? The next slide? Great?
Maureen Clements: Oh. okay.
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some brief updates for ex levers. And Luna. Sorry about that.
Maureen Clements: We have had a really low number of tickets with ex lebris. And so that's a really great thing. Historically. We've had quite a few tickets open at one time, and we've noticed that those numbers are lowering so just to mention that that's really that's moving to the positive. There.
Maureen Clements: Tim did send out an an email about our May to Seventeenth Support meeting that we have quarterly with the Exhibition support team. So please email him with any tickets that you'd like for us to review or ask about. You can email him through the Lsp base camp
Maureen Clements: just a couple of the highlights that I'm really really happy about David Shuster, who is from Binghamton, and he was just recently voted on to the Lunar steering committee. So we're really really excited about that, and we're looking forward to working with him and learning more
Maureen Clements: additionally our very own Michelle Eichel, Burger and Nancy Bab. From University of Buffalo. We're both voted on to the Premium ve working group, so we are going to have a little bit more more insight into what's happening with the Luna. I'm really excited.
Maureen Clements: And last week for those who didn't attend was the Luna Conference, the the big one that was out in Los Angeles. We had several Sunni presenters, and just wanna say congratulations to everyone who went, and we look forward to hearing lots of updates about what's going on next with Alma and premium.
Maureen Clements: Okay. great.
Maureen Clements: Some O. C. I'll see updates. Just a reminder. There is a new small library offering that a sales is updating. Excuse me that Olc. Is offering.
and that's not actually offered for all schools, but only schools with under 3,000. So you've likely been contacted already, and I know that Shannon has been coordinating that
Maureen Clements: same with the world, Cap visibility subscriptions. If you are interested, please reach out to Andy bush and his email addresses there, and just a quick note that that sunny contract i'm gonna just gonna put the link in the the oops that didn't come out as a link. I'll send that later. Sorry.
Maureen Clements: all right. And then you might have also seen a note that i'd sent to the list, or Olc. Is offering reduced price for hosted services, easy proxy, hosted services. So I know that a lot of schools do host themselves. So this is good time. If you have the money
Maureen Clements: to get on Osclc hosted services for easy proxy right now, they're offering no implementation fee, and I do believe it's a 30% discount for the first year. And so please reach out to Scott
Maureen Clements: Hodge, Naki, and please, that's how he pronounces his name. So the email is there as well.
Maureen Clements: And finally we we got a note that Olc. Is retiring cat express in April 2024 and we only have a few schools on cat express, so we will be reaching out to them. And so we'll be working with you on how, how we'll work that. So
Maureen Clements: it's kind of surprising news, but probably not too shocking.
Maureen Clements: All right. and talking about the theme of authentication. Open Athens, which we've been working with Epsco to help administer, that they help do implementations and hosting for open happens
Maureen Clements: and open Athens is the single sign on authentication system that really allows for a little more granularity than some of the easy proxy services
Maureen Clements: we we will be getting a 20% discount if we can get 5 sooni schools to subscribe. We did extend the deadline for signing up to June first. We do have a PA process for that, and we have several schools who are interested. So if you are interested, please reach out to Nancy Gramaldi, Kristy out Miguel, Roy or myself as soon as possible, and we can get that process started and hopefully secure the 20% discount.
Maureen Clements: Okay.
Maureen Clements: And finally, just a couple of updates to a reminder that there is going to be the Conference on instruction and technology as soon as we go. That's coming up next week. So if you are in the area, and I want to attend that that'll be available.
Maureen Clements: and i'm really really looking forward to seeing everyone at Sunni. Law, that's going to be held at Sunny maritime on between June fourteenth and June sixteenth.
Maureen Clements: Wanted to mention that as well let me pop that in chat.
Maureen Clements: and finally welcome to Marcy Strong. I know that you know that we we will be. We had a new metadata coordinator and sport specialists. So I just wanna give a very warm welcome to Mercy. And we're gonna be meeting with the SMS. P. Group this week and looking forward to that
Maureen Clements: Kim is back with us, Kim. So I I just wanted to turn it back over to him here for her click update.
Kim Scalzo: Thank you, Maureen.
Cori Wilhelm: Yeah, if you don't mind, it might be easier to stop sharing, and then we share. Yeah.
Kim Scalzo: rather than clicking all the way back through. We've got a lot of slides here. It's great to see everybody. Thank you all for joining today, and just want to say thank you to the team for all the updates. A lot of work is happening on the Olaus and your services front, and
Kim Scalzo: just really appreciate everybody's efforts. So
Kim Scalzo: so I think what I wanted to start with is just a reminder. If the Chancellor, if you were present when the transfer visited your campus, because he has now visited all the campuses.
Kim Scalzo: then he may have talked about his 4 priorities, and so I just wanted to say a little bit about each of these, just to know that, and and know that they're kind of front and center, and our minds as we do our work at the System Office. So
Kim Scalzo: on the student success front.
Kim Scalzo: If you're not aware. We recently brought on board a new senior Vice Chancellor for student success. Her name is Donna Linderman, and she started in. I think this first or second week in March.
Kim Scalzo: so she is still kind of getting acclimated and connecting with folks around the system. We did recently have the student success Summit, and so I think that was a good kind of way for her to
Kim Scalzo: get a handle on everything that's happening in student success across Sunni, and much of her work will continue to intersect with the work that we all do in the Provost's office.
Kim Scalzo: not just in Ola and O our services, but in other areas as well so, and as her portfolio is kind of established being established and developed, I did want to share that the center for professional development which has
Kim Scalzo: historically reported in the Provost office will now be part of her portfolio, I think, to reflect the priority on student success, and the fact that really everything most of us do is about student success.
Kim Scalzo: So so that change has just taken place. And and the other thing I want to say about that is that we're gonna continue to work very closely with with the center for professional development. We have many
Kim Scalzo: interdependencies between what we do, whether it's in all this and o our services, or to me, online or other areas of the Provost office, we're gonna continue to rely on the Cpd. And work closely with them so so more to come, as we learn more what what is going to be happening in that space. But
Kim Scalzo: Don is really going to be, I think, setting the agenda. And if you're not aware
Kim Scalzo: when the New York State budget just got passed, there was a significant investment for transformation funding that will be targeted primarily for student success. We're really excited about that
Kim Scalzo: on the diversity, equity, and inclusion front. Again, this is another area that really touches all of us, and should touch all of us. And so I'm really excited to announce that today our new chief Diversity officer at the system level started. His name is Ricardo as our Cologne.
Kim Scalzo: and so he well, literally, today is his first official day on the job, and i'm really excited because I actually served on the Search Committee for for his hire, and I think he's gonna be a really good fit for Sunni. So
Kim Scalzo: so what? What is happening in the diversity, equity and inclusion front. I can tell you that in all of the work that we are doing in the Provost's office, including Allison o our services, we're bringing a different lens to the work that we do, and really trying to think about how the initiatives that are underway
Kim Scalzo: really support diversity, equity, and inclusion. And so I think that the phrase that that
Kim Scalzo: you know really kind of stuck with me throughout the search process is that
Kim Scalzo: De I work is not the work of the Chief Diversity Officer. It's really all of our work, and what we have to do is really think about how all the work that that we do is done through this Dei lens, so more to come as Ricardo comes up to speed. But just, for example, I I just want to say that there've been some really great conversations with the Olis
Kim Scalzo: team and with the whole team in Ds. About all the activities that we have going on, and how we're supporting the Ei
Kim Scalzo: on the research and scholarship front. I'll take the opportunity here to say that we have the Provost search has been launched, and there is a an active search in place to find our next provost.
Kim Scalzo: and that position will be Provost and President of the Research Foundation, which really means
Kim Scalzo: more closely bringing together of the activities that have been in the Provost office in the office of research it system administration. So I think that is another really great opportunity. And as we, as you heard some of the folks updating today.
Kim Scalzo: we particularly the folks in all this, have been working closely with the office of research, innovation and economic development on things like the orchid task force and other things. So so I think that there are is gonna be more synergies with the Provost, who also is the president of the Research Foundation. And I think that's gonna be really exciting as well
Kim Scalzo: in terms of economic development and upward mobility. A couple of things that I will point to is that this is really shining a light on what we do across the University, and non credit spaces in ways that it hasn't before. So you know, we have a significant micro credential effort. We've been talking about
Kim Scalzo: halfways for those micro credentials into degree programs. But in addition to that part of that ecosystem for economic development and upward mobility and continuing education workforce development is non-credit programming, and while we talk about the fact that we have
Kim Scalzo: more than 360, almost 370 students pursuing credit, bearing, or degree seeking programs. In Sunni. We also have 1.2 to 1.3 million learners who are engaged in non-credit activities across the system. And so what is interesting as we shine a light on those activities and try to really think more holistically about them is that we don't have good infrastructure from a data perspective for
Kim Scalzo: capturing and tracking and reporting on that activity. And so that's some of the activity that we're involved in to really be able to
Kim Scalzo: know, for example, how many of those learners represent on duplicated headcount, or you know what what types of programs are they involved in? And do they connect into credit bearing paths. We actually don't know that in many cases, so you may have also heard references to you. Have the orchid Id on the research side on the education side, we have what's called the Sunni Global Id, which is intended to be an Id. That is, in addition to the
Kim Scalzo: campus level, Id for students and faculty and staff that allows us to connect activity for someone across the system. So if i'm a student on one campus and a staff member on another campus, or I take courses across multiple campuses.
Kim Scalzo: The global Id will be the record identifier that allows us to see all that activity in aggregate across the system. So so those are a couple of the initiatives happening on the economic development and upward mobility front. If you go to the next slide.
Kim Scalzo: the only other thing I wanted to update on, and I don't think this is a new topic for any of you, but it's seeming seeming to be getting more visibility and more activity, so inclusive Access agreements
Kim Scalzo: are being, you know, promoted and encouraged, and the publishers are being, you know, very active. I'll say, in reaching out to campus leaders.
Kim Scalzo: often not including the libraries and not including faculty organizations. So if you're not aware, inclusive access is a textbook sales model, it basically takes the cost of on digital content and bundles it all together so that students can use it and counted in their tuition and fees calculations.
So and this is the build slide. I think, Corey, you're sharing. If you want to click, make the next click.
Kim Scalzo: It is intended. Publishers will tell you to address the high textbook costs and basically provide everything that a publisher has to all the students on the campus or in a department or at a school level for one low price.
Kim Scalzo: But there are, I think it also creates some challenges for students and faculty, and I think that as we're hearing the conversations at the campus level. In some cases around this there are seemingly misperceptions or misunderstandings about
Kim Scalzo: what these agreements really entail, and what they they are are really doing so. Click one more time. Quarry. There is a really great site, if you're not aware of it, called inclusive access.org, which, as provided by, I think spark is the organization.
Kim Scalzo: and it's a really kind of a balance perspective on what are these agreements? What do they mean? And and I think, in particular, are some good questions to ask. If your campus is discussing or considering inclusive access agreements with publishers.
Kim Scalzo: you know just some things to consider, and in particular. I would. You know what I think? I, you know, just kind of some basic things to ask. Are you know it? Are there opt out options for students. The students would rather not do that and go by their their material separately. Do they have that option? And are those options widely known?
Kim Scalzo: The other thing that that I think I would encourage. If you're looking at these is like, really, do your due diligence and comparing what they're offering versus what students really need. And you know, and is this really a great deal for the students? Or is this really just a way to add cost to students without
Kim Scalzo: without adding the value that that out adding value to what they're getting so. And I think there's one more link on the slide, Cory. If you click one more time.
Kim Scalzo: So the Faculty Council of Community Colleges, as well as the University Faculty Senate, talked about this in their recent plenaries this spring. The Fcc. Actually has a resolution
Kim Scalzo: that they have voted on voted to pass. I believe the Us. Today as well, but I don't know if we've seen that yet. So so again, I think they both include some guidance to campus leaders
Kim Scalzo: for questions to ask and considerations. If you are considering and inclusive access agreements.
Kim Scalzo: And that is, I think, where I'm stopping.
Cori Wilhelm: Thanks, Kim. Yeah. And were there any questions for the oldest team or Kim?
Cori Wilhelm: I'm going to pop.