Liberal Arts Colleges and GLAM Interest Group

The purpose of the Liberal Arts Colleges and GLAM Interest Group is to make digital repository resources easy to use and accessible, particularly to under-resourced and smaller institutions, so that Islandora is a sustainable long-term solution for our members.

Conveners

Nicole Scalessa (nscalessa@vassar.edu)
Emily Higgs Kopin (ehiggs1@swarthmore.edu)

Specific goals, activities, and outcomes include:

Build a vibrant, supportive, and equitable group that collectively supports open-source software as critical to providing access and preserving a wide array of cultural heritage and scholarly materials.
Collaboratively identify pain points in Islandora systems management and find solutions.
Document best practices and workflows that meet the unique needs of under-resourced and smaller institutions.
Provide feedback to the Islandora Foundation regarding issues, concerns, and features specific to under-resourced and smaller institutions.
The interest group will abide by the set of principles in the Code of Conduct that articulate the values of the Islandora Foundation.

Meetings:

The interest group will meet once a month virtually, first Thursdays, 2-3PM EST (eg. via Zoom).

Running Meeting Notes for 2023-2024

A call for agenda items will be posted to the Islandora Google Group one week prior to the meeting.
A convener will appoint a note taker for the meeting and meeting notes will be made available online.
A convener will submit occasional reports on interest group activities to the Islandora Coordinating Committee.