Arts & Humanities Council Meeting of December 5, 2019

10:00-11:30am, 303 Doe Library

Facilitator: J. Ott

Minutes: A. Scheel

1. Announcements

Welcome to Samantha Teremi as our new Circulation Supervisor in Art History/Classics

2. Welcome/introduction to Kristina Bush, Digital Literacies Librarian

In Instruction Services Division
Has created digital notebooks for instructional resilience on the Google platform for different phases of instruction (pre-class, during class, and post-class)
Instructor Development Program next week - 3 sessions available to register for: https://berkeley.libcal.com/calendar/idp

3. Artists' books online discovery portal (L. Cunningham)

URL: https://library.artstor.org/#/collection/100038607
A visual search portal for artists' books from Art History/Classics and Environmental Design
Based in JSTOR Forum, a searchable collection in ArtStor

4. Recap of strategic funding decisions for collections (J. Ott/A. Scheel)

Archivision Digital Research Library (modules 3-14 and Art A-D) (Cunningham)
Socialism on Film (Pendse)
China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China_ 1841-1951 (Xue)
University Press E-Books, 2019-2020 -- 2020 for UC and Harvard, and for 2019-2020 for Stanford, Yale and Columbia. (Edwards)
Sabinet: African E-Journals, Social Sciences & Humanities (2 year pilot/trial) (Edwards)

CDLG will use these as a desiderata list if/when there is unspent funding at end of fiscal year
AH Division will have its own strategic funding process which is currently accepting proposals
Selectors can use their own funds and combine funds with other selectors

Recommendation to somehow limit or prioritize the proposals submitted within AH Council. AH Division will be discussing priorities for each proposal during January selector meeting. This could serve as a model for next year's Council deliberations on strategic funding proposals.

5. Planning an international conference (C. Potts)

Along with 25 others across the U.S. and in Italy around the world, Claude, Jeremy, and Jennifer Nelson are involved in planning a 4-day international conference to be held in Fiesole in May 2020 (New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information). Casalini Libri will host the event, which is sponsored by the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and the German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP), both working projects of CRL, and co-sponsored by the ACRL European Studies Section and Casalini.
Part of a history of international conferences and symposia connected to WESS (now ESS) and the European vendors and libraries
Claude is chairing committees for publicity and publications which will disseminate proceedings (edited papers, slides, etc.) in digital format.
Fundraising: venue contributed by Casalini, vendors and publishers, stipends from CIFNAL and GNARP
https://www.crl.edu/events/sharing2020

6. Acquisition trip to China: Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Shanghai (J. He)

Jianye shared her experience of exploring new areas for researchers and resources in Inner Mongolia and Chengde, attending the 26th International Book Fair in Beijing, visiting current and new collaborative partners, etc. during her acquisition trip in August, 2019.
High interest at Berkeley in Mongolian history, archaeology, religion, etc.

7. Function Council reports

� Cataloging & Metadata Council (A. Malik)

Lisa stepped down as Head of Cataloging and Metadata as well as chairing this council; Jo Anne and Salwa are re-thinking CMC and will co-chair revamped group after a pause

� Collection Development Leadership Group (A. Scheel)

Decision on strategic funding proposals
Preview of analysis of Project Muse e-book and print usage comparison
John Shepard is AH representative on new CSC Scholarly Resources Policy and Guidelines Subgroup, a follow up to the previous Collections Policy and Guidelines Working Group.

� Collection Services Council (M. Hamed and S. Reardon)

Salwa spoke about DLP progress
Chan spoke about faculty survey action plan; no separate library student survey, but library will add 5 additional questions to main university undergraduate student survey for a total of 7 library questions
Jo Anne: newspaper microfilming project for preservation and to replace "bundling" of physical copies in NRLF

� Public Services Council (S. Mendoza)

Public computing prioritization review from Feb. 2019
Thermal paper receipts - health concerns from BPA in paper, should be using BPA-free paper; also concerns for creating additional paper waste; discussing moving away from paper re

� Roundtable Update (A. Scheel)

� Web Advisory Group (M. Erviti)

� Assessment Advisory Group (M. Hamed)

8. Expertise Group reports

� Scholarly Communication expertise group (L. Pendse and S. Reardon)

� Teaching and Learning expertise group (J. Ott)

Next meeting: February 6, 2020