2024-01-24 Outreach & Engagement notes

 

Participants

  • @Heather Greer Klein - regrets

  • @Kevin Kochanski

  • @Karen Cariani

  • @Alicia M. Morris

  • @Adam J. Arling - regrets

  • @Kirsten Leonard

  • Molly Reed

  • @Chris Awre

Agenda

Contentful and website planning updates, progress

Adam completed:

Ideas for series of messages/blog posts this month:

  • Get to Know the Samvera Community

  • Get Involved with the Samvera Community in 2024

Ongoing projects below

Upcoming press releases

  • Hyrax 5 when released

  • British Library as new Partner - waiting on their signed agreement

  • New Board members and Chair - in January; this is delayed due to potential special election

Making the case for supporting Open Source: how to break down the process to create this as a page on our website? Could first step be all of us gathering existing resources? Can we ask how this is being pitched now, and what is getting through? Who are their trusted sources? Showing that there is not one solution for all problems, need to be able to talk to other systems.

 

Making the case: Create a series of documents to help people get administrative support for adopting initiatives.

  • Adopting open source

  • Value of going to Samvera Connect

  • Pledging community hours

 

Accessibility (Samvera.org, etc):

  • Link text should be more descriptive for Accessibility; eg, “Learn More” should be more specific.

  • Should we consider an overall Accessibility scan? (Site Improve)

 

Press release list

Library Technology Guides

American Libraries Direct (ALA)

ACRL ScholComm Discussion Group

ACRL Insider

Library Journal

Library Journal Info

ICOLC Listserv

University Business Magazine

Educause

Information Today

Against the Grain (Charleston Hub)

Hyku for Consortia Listserv

European mailing lists: jisc-repositories@jiscmail.ac.uk, diglib@iflalists.org,

Of these, Library Technology Guides, Against the Grain, ICOLC and ACRL almost always publish what PALNI send.

Potential outreach through chapter call

Action Items

  • Reach out (@Kevin Kochanski ) to Heather and Adam about Hyku aligning with Avalon -

  • Kevin will merge the glossaries and add definitions as a draft

  • Molly will think through link text on Samvera.org re: Accessibility; potentially Site Improve scans.

  • Do we still use this template? If so, we need to update the motto: