Governance / Commercial Products Committee Meeting: October 9, 2024

Commercial Products Committee Meeting: October 9, 2024

CONFERENCE CALL

Members Attending: Chad Buckley (Illinois State University), Audra Deemer (DePaul University), Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe (Chicago State University), Michele Hunt (Northern Illinois University), Ann Johnston (Olivet Nazarene University), Marie Martino (Moraine Valley Community College), Thane Montaner (Prairie State College), Scott Thomson (Rush University), Ashtin Trimble (Black Hawk College)

CARLI Staff Attending: Jenny Taylor, Nicole Ream-Sotomayor, Denise Green, Marisa Tolbert

Members Absent: None

Announcements   

CARLI Updates

  • Transition to ConsortiaManager is progressing and CARLI is still waiting on vendors for pricing. Working on having the system open next week.
    • Marisa Tolbert: ¾ of the Alma CZ collection IDs have been added
  • New employee starting on Monday at CARLI and Denise is retiring at the end of the month; new staff member will have some overlap with her to get oriented and onboarded.
  • The Instruction Committee: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Libraries & Underrepresented Students, discussion, registration is open: https://www.carli.illinois.edu/InstructionDiscussion-20241024
  • Jenny updated the committee on the status of contracts being worked on.

Discussion

PRODUCT PROPOSALs

  • There were no proposals to review.

Annual Project

AI Symposium Collaboration - Next Steps

  • Public Services Committee wanting feedback on the timeframe: Which date works best between April 14-18 between 10am and 2pm?
    • Consensus is the Tuesday or Wednesday (April 15 or16) would be best, the 18th is Good Friday so there could be a lot of folks off for and possibly travelling on the 17th. Times 10am – 12pm, or 1pm–3pm, or 12pm-2pm
  • Should we work on our own or should we collaborate with the Primo VE group?
    • Primo VE group is considering something related to using AI as a research tool, but this is still in preliminary stages
      • Would want to not focus solely on Primo VE so that non-iShare libraries are not excluded
    • May be easier to do this on own as a committee since it is hard to schedule with so many people
    • Topic ideas: review some of the current AI integrated tools within vendor products. What they are, what they do, and are they free, add-ons or come with a subscription. How to evaluate the tools.
    • JSTOR is doing an AI beta project: https://about.jstor.org/research-tool/
    • Many on the committee feel they are AI novices and some folks’ libraries have created task forces/working groups – these groups and other colleagues may be good sources for ideas and tools to cover. The committee can also recruit speakers.
  • Format decision: panel, discussion, lightning talks, other?
    • Likely a panel but this could change once the topic is formalized
  • Soliciting & communicating with speakers/presenters: How to recruit participants?
    • We will recruit others if we decide this is needed
  • EBSCO released AI Insights beta test – were any IL libraries a part of this?  https://www.ebsco.com/blogs/ebscopost/AI-insights-library-research

hosting a table talk at the annual meeting

  • Some ideas: changeover to new EBSCO interface, Third Iron and Mometrix overviews, implementing new resources in your library, advertising/marketing library resources to get more usage
  • ERM committee: discussion about vendors and e-resources - led by Robin Hofstetter and Jacob Del Rio and is entitled, “E-Resources: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”
  • No presenter from the committee is needed, just a topic suggestion and if someone from committee is in attendance, they can help encourage discussion/moderate. Ann and Jenny may co-lead

Decisions

  • Minutes of the September 16, 2024 meeting were approved.
  • The Committee decided for the AI Symposium to do a topic ourselves and not with another committee. Initial plan is for a panel presentation, but this may change once the topic is fully formed.
  • The meeting was adjourned at 10:56am

Tasks Assigned

  • Look into some products that are adding AI tools to cover in AI Symposium
  • Folks with library working groups that focus on AI (or just interested colleagues) should reach out to them to get feedback and ideas on AI tools they may be interested in seeing covered

Meeting Dates

  • Next Meeting: Monday, November 18, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. (minutes: Rosalind Fielder-Giscombe)