Hours: 4 Otterbein Total Hours: 30 CML Total Hours: 19
The main presentation for the meeting was from The Ohio State University Library. The presentation was called Harnessing the Lifecycle. It was about how the OSUL created a Digital Preservation Policy Framework, their Strategic Digital Vision, a Digital Content Workflow, and a Digital Presentation Task Force. I liked the organizational steps they shared with the group:
- Acknowledge
- Act
- Consolidate
- Institutionalize
- Externalize
They worked with the TRAC model for trusted digital repositories, the OAIS model, and did an overall analysis of where they were and where they needed to go. Their goals were to bring everyone in the various university libraries into one system, all using the same software and processes to become One Library. They shared with us their guiding principles, and a white paper about the current state of the modern digital library at the OSUL. Now, they are working on long-term management and preservation plan for the libraries’ master digital objects.
During lunch, we had the members’ meeting. Everyone introduced themselves and shared what projects they were all working on. There are a lot of meetings and conferences coming up this fall, including a Symposium at the State Library in December, a local genealogy meeting in mid-October, and IR Day a week later, as well as SOA & OLHA’s meeting and workshop at the beginning of October.
After the meeting, we got a tour of Westerville Library’s archives and special collections department. It was fun to see how they took an old house and turned it into a workable display and work area.