August 17, 2009, Minutes
PRAM Meeting Minutes 8/17/09
Present: Barbara Hood, Jay Wiese, Aimee Barrett, Richard Saltzburg, Margeaux Johnson, Ryan Litsey, James Liversidge, Mcauliffe Carol, Patricia Morgan
TOPICS
Library News Letter. We are waiting for Judith Russell to finalize her personal message.
Money. We have spent $232.00 out of our $700.00 in the “additional printed promotional items” category. The printed table covering was ordered.
A vote was taken and Laurie Taylor’s request (DSO weekend) for magnets was approved. The cost will be borne by the printing budget for $109.00.
New Faculty Orientation was this morning, August 18, 2009 and all went well. Thanks to Aimee Barrett, Ryan Litsey and Richard Saltzburg. We had about a 100 new faculty, quite a few from Health and human Performance. Also many “new faculty” were UF students at one time. Go Gator Nation.
Carol does not want to discuss GIS day until the budgetary aspects are resolved (include as a line item).
Margeaux Johnson is working in the area of “open access” trying hard to educate the University population as to what it is, who benefits, and to quell some of the fear about free stuff. To that end she is involved with the Sparky Awards which is a project to help reveal the value of information sharing. Those who want to participate and make a 2 minute video can check flip cameras out. A limited number are now available from the libraries.
There will be an Open Access week where the UF community can begin to discuss what this means for the campus. This initiative has a partner in the Florida Free Culture organization.
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