DAS Subcommittee Conference Call Minutes
Present: Ghaznavi, Ghering, Lindberg, McAninch, Rosko, Schaefer, Martzahl, De Sutter, and Capodilupo. Absent: Bishoff and Legg
4/12/16
Comprehensive Examination Questions
- Remove DCU question #102, replace with another one to be found and proposed by Tom
- Item #154 PIDA – unclear if should keep or not. Tom likes it – will leave as-is.
- RFPs question #98 – propose replacing with pilot, Cynthia agreed.
- BASA – need to eliminate one easy question, decided on #167
- DFA – need to eliminate one question – agreed on #115
- Question #113 – change to “the preferred strategy”
- MER #143 – too tied to specific course, if you haven’t taken it is very hard. Veronica wants to keep it, rewrite so answer C doesn’t seem correct. Change “mission” to “values” in option C.
Approval/Changes to the Minutes plus updates on certain items from the minutes
- Minutes were approved.
- Are we going forward with the general call for instructors? Ghering wondered how we are moving forward and what is needed. De Sutter will put together language, will have it to everyone in a week.
- Everyone should come to the next call prepared with ideas/possible instructors
- Ghaznavi – workflow document. Context was that staff, faculty are busy, committee members are rotating on and off, so need to codify steps
- Capodilupo will post on microsite under general resources along with revised core competencies and liaison checklist too.
Staff Updates
- At the February Comprehensive Examination the latest migration in Grubb resulted in some typos and truncated sentences. Decision was made to exclude these questions (4) from the general scoring.
Ghering – update on Electronic Records webinars
- Hasn’t gotten to them yet, will update on next call
McAninch – update on two-day Appraisal/Accessioning and Ingest course
- McAninch, Myers, Faulder, and De Sutter discussed the hybrid Appraisal/Accessioning course for the Yale group. It will be a 2-day course, both instructors like the idea. Will benefit SAA as well because right now each of them is the only teacher for their respective courses and participants will benefit from both instructors’ perspectives.
Committee wondered about long term sustainability and amount of work that this hybrid model would take; De Sutter feels that like any contract project it’s more work up front but less later on.
De Sutter to send call dates that were agreed to in February.
