2012-13 Council on Libraries, Information Systems and Computing
(LISC)
Minutes
September 23, 2013
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
AS-122
Attendance: Elizabeth Gaffney, Chair; Evgeny Dikarev; Debra Dickerson;
Mary Casserly; John Delano; Kimberly Van Orman; Susanna Fessler; Rem
Davis; Dave Mamorella; Eliot Rich
1. Report from the Chair: Elizabeth Gaffney
Elizabeth welcomed the new and returning members to LISC. She handed
out a description of LISC from the Charter of the University Senate and
asked that the members think about which sub-committee they would like
to serve: the Library Committee; or the Information Technology Usage
Policy Committee. Elizabeth will send out an email polling their
preference for a Committee following the LISC meeting.
The LISC Committee will meet again on October 28 and November 25.
Elizabeth asked that the Committee hold December 16 in case a meeting
is needed.
2. Report from Dean of Libraries - Mary Casserly
Mary distributed two articles: Who Will Pay for Public Access to Research
Data? By Francine Berman and Vint Cerf; and How to Share Scientific Data,
by John Markoff. These two articles were a follow up to some discussions
held at last year’s LISC meeting on archiving data.
Associate Director for Public Services
With the retirement in July of Mary Jane Brustman, this position is vacant.
The position has been advertised and currently conducting phone
interviews with four candidates. Onsite interviews are anticipated to begin
in early November.
Student Advisory Board
The Library is working on membership for this year. Last year all members
were students employed by the Libraries; this year there will be a mix of
those who work in the Libraries and those who do not. We have
nominations from supervisors for those who work here and have placed
volunteer forms in all three libraries. Next step: call for possible topics for
meeting agendas and scheduling the first meeting.
LISC Meeting September 23, 2013
Provost Fellow and Institutional Repository
Abebe Rorissa, faculty member in CCl who teaches in the information
studies program is a Provost’s Fellow and will be working with the
Libraries to create an Institutional Repository. The Provost’s Fellows
Program enables faculty to take on assignments outside their home
department. Each year the Provost asks the Deans to identify projects
with which they need help. For the past several years, Mary has indicated
an interest in establishing an IR. Abebe expressed interest in this and now
has a reduced teaching load in order to enable him to devote about half
his time helping. A Steering Committee will work with him on this project.
This project will require the assistance of LISC, especially as it gets to the
point when faculty are asked to be among the first to add their content to
the repository.
3. Suggestions for Topics for LISC to Consider
The following are topics members would like to see discussed at future
LISC meetings:
(a) Windows 8 Upgrade - When will the upgrade take place and how will it
be handled? Can our current computers handle the upgrade?
Concerns/Issues with the Upgrade to Office 2013 in the classrooms.
Let’s review how it was done and what could have been done better.
Perhaps this could result in LISC working on a Best Practices Guidelines
- Recommend guidelines for upgrades, etc., which would include a
check-off list, and constituencies to be informed.
Perhaps we could gather some of the help desk tickets regarding
problems created by the latest upgrade to help in this effort.
(b)Data Back-up - There are significant new requirements for Data
backup included in many of the new NSF programs. Perhaps we could
initiate a discussion about how the University might create some
standard guidelines regarding how these data requirements could be
met rather than having each PI have to recreate the wheel. We should
begin a dialogue with Chris Haile about the possibility of developing an
institutional policy/procedure for archiving data. If appropriate,
perhaps Chris and/or Mary could help bring in some people to present
on this topic.
4. Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
