We welcomed Micah Vandergrift from Florida State University to our meeting. Micah was in residence at Columbia for the week meeting with colleagues in the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and other units. He expressed interest in our project as a model for involving more librarians in digital scholarship. Micah is Florida State University’s first Scholarly Communication Librarian. He manages the institutional repository, works with faculty and has a strong interest in the future of academic publishing.
At the meeting, Micah discussed his work at Florida State and how they are going about implementing and building services for digital scholarship. He pointed out that his long association with the university has been advantageous for him – he knows the culture, the faculty, and has been successful in anticipating certain needs. He also acknowledged the challenge in getting faculty to think about their own research in new ways and how best to make them aware of what services are available.
The agenda for the meeting focused on updating our project timeline and confirming our meeting schedule through the fall. We granted extensions to several deadlines for the design team and the development team – recognizing busy work schedules. We are hoping to have the logo refined, color selections confirmed, header and footer ready to go by September – which will give the development team the necessary content to begin implementation.
We are planning a few site visits to archives in the fall. We hope the first visit will be to the Municipal Archives to explore original documents that can help inform the history of Morningside Heights.
