Accountability (12-09)

How we can ensure accountability
• Create summary document --> shared
• Designate point person at each school
• Identify areas of agreement --> where to focus out collection attention
• Collective agreement on the priorities
• Develop a plan with time frames
• Expect active, enthusiastic engagement
• Steering committee has responsibility to lead
• Expect collective ownership
• Define time commitment effort expected of all
• Expect different groups to communicate, engage with one another
• Heed realistic, achievable goals
• Steering committee has positive obligation to explicitly identify transformative potential of activities
• Infrastructure for communication informal discussion
• Expect all of us to be courageous
• Followers – take initiative act as stakeholders

Collective Commitments-4 (12-09)

• Infrastructure/mechanism for collective communication (long term)
• Develop standards for this work/product
• Time to do the work (i.e. release time)
• Professional development
• Work culture that supports intellectual and creative growth expression
• Publish or present in and out of traditional library channels
• Let go of our preconceived notions of our roles
• Be positive
• Early on establish a portal/shared space for brainstorming
• Follow thru on staff development all inclusive and expansive
    Staff (support and librarians)
    Students
    Faculty
    Administrators
• Identifying expertise pools on each campus
• Enhance communication
• Physical and virtual equipment and access. Laptop-mobility.
• Central point-portal important for early communication/idea generation
• Familiar with technology, R&D and creative time and space
• Find out what we can stop doing with time and space
• Creating and training for robust virtual collaboration spaces (meeting and work space)
• Individual time dedicated to work on project
• Steering committee will address sustainability by defining roles for ongoing project committees
• Defining project stages with measurable goals for assessment purposes

Collective Commitments-3 (12-09)

• Create collections that are particularly valuable to undergraduate learning.
• Create projects people want/excited to invest in
• Create projects that make it more valuable/attractive to come to Ohio5 colleges
• Create projects that encourage promote student learning
(Signatures: Ron Griggs, Sharon Bodle, Dee Peterson, Cecilia Robertson, Jacob Koehler)

Commitment to Communication (12-09)

• Facilitate us as learners
      Mentoring, documentation, on-site visits, face-to-face meetings
• Small communities of learning
      e.g. English liaisons, first-year experience librarians, catalogers
• Respect for different learning/communication Styles
• Ongoing communication
• Ongoing assessment
• Sharing successes/failures
• Need effective committee structures
      Criteria for projects
      Allow for differences among campuses
      Means of communication
      Project management
• Shared vision and publicize to all

Collective Commitments-2 (12-09)

Principles
• Risk
• Communication
• Flexibility
• Inspiration
• Dedication
• Enthusiasm
• Useful
Practices
• Collaboration
• Planning
• Flexibility
• Reallocate Resources
• Commitment to capturing scholarly output; help DRC idea succeed

Collective Commitments (12-09)

• wiki or portal, etc. communication tools
• expertise list
• staff development virtually and in person
• allow groups to get together
• individual commitment to learn from one another
• workflow redesigns with a commitment to GIVE UP some thintgs
• commitment to documentation
• commitment to ENJOY the new environment
• commit to commit
• encourage room for failure/experimentation

Principles and Practices to Ensure Success and Sustainability (12-09)

• Commitment to being open to risk, and avoiding "nay saying"
• Commitment to getting to know our counterparts at the other Ohio5 schools
• And to actively share best practices, epiphanies and struggles
• There is no place for competition and judgment with the five college team
• Commitment to remembering SUSTAINABILITY -commit to figuring it out-
• Hone people skills, respect, reply, inform , help others to improve, encourage
• Regular meetings - video conference to share what we're doing and what works, bests practices
• Training for all staff
• Requires a coordinator
• Non-judgmental accountability
• Don't feel that the work has to be useful permanently. The learning may be in the doing, not the keeping
• How to define success - useful to more than one person

Interdependency?

Dependency?