[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for a great meeting today. As it turns out we couldn’t triangulate a date for next month’s meeting, so here’s a Doodle poll with March meeting possibilities. Please vote, and also feel free to suggest other dates/times, too!

http://www.doodle.com/iqixemmmc5eznn6s

Best,
Maura

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Hi everyone,

Just want to give this a bump in your inboxes — if you haven’t already, please vote for a meeting time as soon as you can, thanks!

Best,
Maura

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Thanks for voting! Let’s call it for Monday, March 26th, from 3-5pm.

Polly, can we get that room in the Library at the GC again? Thanks for considering.

Best,
Maura

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Hi everyone,

I was thinking of tweaking the meeting flier with the March date info, but realized I’m not sure what we’ve decided on as a topic for this meeting.

I know there’s been talk about the CUE Conference — we could use the meeting as a working session to crowdsource a conference proposal, perhaps? I’m sure there are other ideas as well.

What should we plan to discuss/do?

Thanks,
Maura

[Polly Thistlethwaite]

If you think of a topic, I’ve reserved the Grad Center Reading Room to discuss it in Monday, March 26th, from 3-5pm.

Polly

[Jill Cirasella (she/her)]

Maura, I like your idea of crowdsourcing a CUE conference proposal. Should we maybe combine that with another, more intro-y topic so the meeting will seem more welcoming to first-timers, too? Perhaps, in fact, a discussion of open access textbooks?

[Alycia Sellie (she/her/they)]

I think Jill’s ideas sound good–discussion of OA textbooks and the CUE Conference. How can we help spread the word about the meeting (which is coming up quickly)?

I will post something today to the OA blog and tweet about it, but how can we better reach students and others who aren’t already in the know?

[Stephen Francoeur (he/him)]

CULIBS is worth sending an announcement out on, although that’s a fraction of who we want to notify. I’ll use Twitter and Facebook, too, as there are a number of Baruch faculty I’m friends with on those networks but not here in the Academic Commons.

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Thanks for the room reservation, Polly!

And huge apologies to all — I completely goofed on the dates, and as it turns out the CUE Conference proposals are due THIS Friday 3/23. (I’m sorry! Too many deadlines swirling around my head these days.)

One thought is to try and crowdsource the proposal *now,* in time for the deadline, then spend Monday’s meeting thinking about how to structure the presentation in a more detailed way. What does everyone think?

And I think a general discussion about OA textbooks would be great at the meeting. After the last LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee meeting I said I’d add some of the OA curricular materials resources we’ve found/promoted here at City Tech to the wiki page that Ann Matsuuchi created, which I haven’t done yet. But I will do before Monday!

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

Oh and P.S. re: PR — I’ve RTed the tweets, will post flyers around City Tech (I promise!), and will bring a stack of flyers to both our College Council meeting today and the library’s Tech Happy Hour event tonight, and anywhere else I can think of this week.

[Stephen Francoeur (he/him)]

Maura, thanks for your re-tweets, flyer posting, etc! Does anyone here want to do a CULIBS announcement? I’d be more than happy to do it, but since I’ve only been to one meeting so far, it seems somewhat presumptuous of me.

[Madeline Cohen]

Hi Maura et. al.: Thank you for the poster. I will circulate as much as possible around Lehman and Tweet on Library Twitter feed.

About the CUE Conference, I am fine with trying to submit a proposal by Fri. Open Access Textbooks seems to be a hot topic. We could do an “intro” with a speaker who is actively involved in this. Unfortunately, I am swamped and don’t have time to write an abstract, but happy to comment. I will attend the meeting on Monday.

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

I can send the message to CULIBS, no problem. Will do it now.

[Stephen Francoeur (he/him)]

D’oh! I just realized that I need to attend a faculty recognition award ceremony thingy this afternoon because I went and published an article last year (which, BTW, is available from the DLIST repository at the U of Arizona). Sorry that I won’t be able to make it today.

[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

We’ll miss you, Stephen! I’ll take some notes into a doc here to catch up everyone who can’t make it.

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