NDSA:Outreach Meeting Minutes 04-14-11
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NDSA Outreach Working Group Conference Call Notes April 11, 2011, 3:00pm EASTERN
Participants
- Deborah Rossum
- Kat Hagedorn
- Carol Minton Morris
- Blane Dessy
- Lisa Gregory
- Dever Powell
- Glen Cook
- Barrett Jones
- Helen Tibbo
- Sue Manus
- John Unsworth
Items
The call opened with a presentation by Helen Tibbo, a professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, discussing the outreach activities undertaken by the school, and discussing ways in which the NDSA Outreach group might reach out to library school students.
She described “outreach” as being present in all the activities that the school undertakes, including grants, continuing education and public presentations. There is a component to their digital preservation and outreach class where students go to work in an existing digital repository, which provides an opportunity to do outreach.
The school has received several IMLS grants including DigCCurr I and II (for both masters and doctoral students). Each of these projects has held conferences that had an attendance of about 270 people each. Additionally, she tries to do public events in conjunction with funded projects by leveraging the knowledge of advisory board members.
Discussion opened up after the presentation to focus on ways to further engage library school students. It was noted that there was some awareness of digital preservation issues across the entire student community, but it was dependent on area of interest.
Ideas that came out in the discussion:
- NDSA representation at the public events, perhaps including a booth at SAA in August. NDSA funding for receptions at other public events.
- Identify faculty members on library school campuses who have an interest in digital preservation/curation and offer NDSA representatives as speakers.
- Give a presentation on the NDSA at the ALISE and iConferences.
- Get in touch with the student chapters of ASIST (http://www.asis.org/Chapters/chapters-student.html), ALA (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/affiliates/chapters/student/studentchapters1.cfm), SAA (http://www.archivists.org/students/chap_dir.asp), student group (does one exist?) of American Association of Museums, etc.
- Develop a persistent resource of free online materials that support a digital preservation/curation curriculum that can be used to construct for course modules and readings. One existing resource is the Digital Curation Exchange (http://www.digitalcurationexchange.org/). The NDSA could create its own community here.
- Leverage ALISE to distribute NDSA-compiled materials to people already teaching in existing classes what they’re doing.
- Begin to post job information on the NDIIPP Facebook page so that students gravitate towards it as a place for current job information.
- Reach out to library school student blogs and start to identify a community of interest.
- Explore the development of supporting materials to assist NDSA members who are going to speak in classrooms or at local and state conferences.
- Explore ways to leverage the Sloan/CLIR grant on research on how to build capacity for data curation within disciplines.
Action Items:
- Barrett Jones will share the DPOE list of blogs.
- Form an action team to work on a slide deck for public presentations.
- Make contact with Alise and Ischool representatives to begin the preparation of a survey to request digital curation/preservation syllabi to begin an NDSA project to compile and share them.
- Carol will send out a poll to uncover NDSA Outreach working group social media users and their handles.
- Convene a social media action team to discuss the NDSA social media strategy and prepare a short document describing the NDSA plan and approach.