OLA Universities & Colleges Division
July 13, 2005
Stillwater Public Library
Meeting Attendees:
Parker T. Atkins, OCU
Suliman Hawamdeh, OU-Tulsa
David Oberhelman, OSU
Cathy Blackman, Cameron
Gina Minks, TU
Christina Biles, OSU
Marc Carlson, TU
Cokie Anderson, OSU
Jo Ann Daniels, TU
Kiem Ta, OSU
Susan Jeffries, NWOSU
Melissa Huffman, Rose State
Michele Seikel, OSU
Linda Taylor, OSU
Cathy Blackman opened the meeting at
1:00 and made sure that everyone had an agenda.
Minutes:
Minutes from the May 4, 2005 meeting
were approved.
Salary Survey
Cathy announced that Mary Evans,
University of Tulsa, has agreed to do the salary survey for us
again this year.
Call for proposals
Both Cathy and David expressed
concern that many of the people who have submitted proposals in
the past for the UCD sessions really needed time for a full 50
minute presentation. Originally these sessions were to be
academic paper reviews where fifteen minutes was enough time and
the three papers could easily be covered in one session. They
had spoken to Barb Pfrehm, Program Committee Chair, and she
thought it would be a good idea for people to submit proposals
for review to help this situation. Barb has been involved with
Encyclo-Media and was surprised that OLA didn’t already have
some sort of call for papers. Cathy asked if anyone had
experience with the “proposal submission process”. Gina
mentioned that she had experience with the Society of American
Archivists process for both submitting papers and reviewing
submissions for division endorsement. Michelle asked the call
for papers would replace the UCD committee work on the
conference paper sessions and it was clarified that UCD would
still sponsor the poster sessions and a paper session. Michelle
then asked if the call for papers should go out to the OLA
membership at the same time as the call for programs. Cathy
mentioned that the Program Committee was meeting on July 15 and
this would be something they would need to discuss.
Cathy asked for ideas for specific
conference sessions that UCD would sponsor. The Buried
Treasures session is always popular but Cokie suggested that
perhaps we try to highlight collections that are really off the
beaten path. Gina mentioned that she had heard really positive
response to the RFID session. Cathy had presented this session
and said it would be easy to do a follow up on this topic.
David suggested that we really try to get a room for the poster
sessions this year. Last year the poster sessions were so out
of the way that they didn’t benefit the vendors and many people
couldn’t find the sessions.
It was discussed that people will
need to commit really early to a proposal in order to fill
program schedule. Susan asked how many programs were sponsored
for OLA 2005. David believed there were six sessions. Cathy
agreed with the suggestion to try to cut the number of sessions
that are sponsored by UCD. She will attend the Program
Committee meeting on Friday and report back at the next meeting.
New date for ACRL “publishing
workshop
The new date for the ACRL workshop on
publishing is November 18th at Rose State. Dr. David
Kohl, editor of Journal of Academic Librarianship and Dean and
University Librarian Emeritus of the University of Cincinnati,
will be the speaker.
Knowledge Management workshop
planning
Cokie introduced Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh,
OU-Tulsa. He is the founder of iKMS, the Information and
Knowledge Management Society, and is Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Information and Knowledge Management and the author
of Information and Knowledge Society. Dr. Hawamdeh
announced that the 4th Knowledge Management Seminar
will be held in Tulsa in September on KM and Healthcare. After
some discussion on what kind of Knowledge Management Seminar UCD
would want to sponsor it was decided that perhaps a basic “What
is Knowledge Management” workshop would be the most appealing to
the largest audience. Dr. Hawamdeh mentioned the first KM
Seminar he did was an introduction to Knowledge Management and
that it would be appropriate for the suggested seminar.
After checking the OLA calendar, the
group tentatively decided that February 10, 2006 would be the
best date for the KM workshop. Dr. Hawamdeh stated that the
Best Western Hotel on Skelly Drive in Tulsa has been a great
place to hold the past KM workshops. Costs are approximately
$11.00/person including lunch and two breaks and they set up the
room which is equipped with wireless internet. Gina said that
she would work with Dr. Hawamdeh on scheduling the room. More
discussion led to the registration fee to be set at $50.00. It
will start with participant registration at 9:00 and last from
9:30 to 3:30. David added that we should contact some other
library groups such as SLA, MLA, OCALD and FOLIO. Cokie
suggested contacting the OSU Business School to see if they
would be interested in also sponsoring the workshop. Gina said
she would check with TU College of Business Administration.
Cokie also mentioned that she would check with the OU-SLIS
Alumni association to see about possibly sponsoring some student
scholarships for this and future OLA workshops.
Video Meetings
Cathy had everyone examine the agenda
where she had put pictures of the various Onenet video
conferencing equipment we should be looking for at our
respective institutions. The alias to connect will be
ucd@onenet.mcu . She asked if everyone had access to an
Onenet site and suggested we try video conferencing for the next
meeting. After discussion, six sites agreed to host the Onenet
connections: Cameron, OSU Stillwater, Rose State, Tulsa,
Northwestern and Panhandle.
Cathy reminded us all to plan at
least a half hour before the meeting to connect. Cokie
mentioned that the legislative committee has been using video
conferencing for their meetings and that it has worked very
well.
Next Meeting
It was decided that the next UCD
meeting should be in early August to discuss any proposal
deadlines. The next meeting will be a teleconference on
Wednesday, August 10.
Adjournment
The
meeting was adjourned at 2:50.
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