RPC Meeting Minutes
February 5, 2015 3-4PM
Minutes:
A motion to approve the previous meeting’s minutes was made by Dan Tracy and
seconded by Qiang Jin. The minutes were approved. Some previous meeting minutes
were not approved when they should have been and votes for these will come over
email.
Discussion:
EC-Funded Innovation Grant (Lisa Hinchliffe): This is a one-year pilot for creating a
publication series for internal project reports and related documents. RPC doesn’t
have specific obligations but is an important point of contact for feedback. The RPC
Chair (currently Atoma Batoma), Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, and Dan Tracy are
advisory members for the project. After a year the library will need to review and
consider how to continue support.
A question was asked: If the project is successful, who would be responsible?
Answer: That is unclear since workload and specific needs would be revealed by
pilot process.
The goal of the project is to make important documents more widely
available, and have full information in reports that exist about who produced the
report and when it appeared, among other things. We are often doing more cutting
edge work than other places that publish similar reports and get frequently cited, so
we are losing the opportunity for recognition here.
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya may also take on more of a leadership role
than the original draft of the proposal suggests due to the changes in her AUL
position overseeing the Office of Research.
AP Research Survey Report: RPC will present the AP Research Survey Report at the
next faculty meeting. Atoma Batoma and Jennifer Teper will present. Jim Hahn said
we need to submit questions we want to ask faculty for a discussion item.
Possibility: Lots of variation in research activity by APs. Important to note it
is not required but is an option for any AP for use of 2 hours investigation time. Is
lack of participation by some APs due to lack of opportunity, lack of desire, active
blocking?
Three questions were identified as being most important to the unfulfilled parts of
the report, and thus will be forwarded to Jim:
What should the parameters of investigation time be?
What are the best ways to inform APs about research time?
Are there additional forms of research/investigation support that we need to
furnish, or are current opportunities offered to faculty and APs sufficient?
Updating RPC website
The question arose about the RPC charge listing only library faculty. Do we
need to add AP in light of report? It was noted that we cannot change the charge,
only make recommendations to EC.
It would be useful to have proposals or abstracts linked from awards page,
but RPC hasn’t done that in the past. We need to ask Beth if she knows of reasons
why we haven’t done so or couldn’t do so.
There was a question of whether anyone ever requested copy cards anymore,
and whether that should be reframed/updated to allow scanning/digitization
support that may be more useful now. We may want to check with Jennifer Teper
and other digitization staff to see if they would be willing to do some on demand
digitization for faculty with RPC support.
Updates
--RPC Applications – There are no current applications.
--Brownbags – We have 1-2 presenters for every remaining brownbag this
semester.
--Research Showcase: New poster backing was purchased with remaining
research showcase funds.