Created Content Committee Meeting: February 26, 2019

Conference Call

Members present: Marlee Graser (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), Tricia Lampron (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ariana Lim (Lewis University), Matt Short, Chair (Northern Illinois University), Angela Yon (Illinois State University), Ellen Corrigan (Eastern Illinois University), Hunt Dunlap (Western Illinois University)

Members absent: Greer Martin (Loyola University Chicago), Colin Koteles (College of DuPage)

CARLI staff present: Amy Maroso

CARLI staff absent: Elizabeth Clarage

Minutes

• Ariana was confirmed to take minutes this month.
• The January 22, 2019 minutes were approved

CARLI Webinars

• There have been two webinar sessions and the webinars are going well so far. There have been some technical glitches.
• One more webinar next week
• Alma presentation a little difficult to follow
• BIBFRAME and Library of Congress presentation
  • Pilot catalogers and BIBFRAME
  • Confusion that CARLI catalogers were a part of the LoC project.
• Elizabeth and Amy: Will compile survey responses at some point soon.
• Survey results will be talked about at the next CARLI CCC meeting

Social Media Discussion

• Table DAMS analysis for now.
• Social media presence has been on hiatus for the past year.
• If you have any concerns about the DAMS discussion being tabled, talk to Matt.
• Administrators added to CARLI Facebook account?
  • Communications Director does not have a problem with adding members as editors.
  • Start with 2-3 people as basic users to see how it goes.
  • After initial 2-3 people, then go from there and add others.
  • Matt and Marlee willing to sign on.
  • 1-2 test posts before next meeting.
• Other thoughts about CARLI CCC social media.
  • Administrative approval for posts?
    •  CARLI CCC and others in CARLI community can post.
  • Have a post template (guidelines of what to expect) and sign name and say “CARLI Content Committee.”
  • After posting, posts can be edited.
  • How people can submit posts to Facebook?
    • Use a Google Form.
    • Use items in the form to turn into a post.
  • Who wants to handle submissions and how frequently?
    • Back file of posts? Small team, one person per week.
    • 1 post a week. Then, if people are sending in a lot of content, post more.
  • Just digital collections or also digital humanities?
    • Both are fine considering that they are created content.
  • Analytics
    • Looking at this from the CONTENTdm end rather than Facebook end.
    • It should be possible to put a link in and get the analytics.
    • Non-CONTENTdm collections: Not sure if it is possible to measure the analytics. Facebook has analytics.
  • Committee members to send content (a backfile)?
  • Set a deadline for contributors.
  • Within the next month have members send out 1-2 submissions
  • Potentially launch next month
  • With submissions it is anticipated that we will have posts for about 2-2.5 months
  • Potentially having Amy’s post with new collections also being posted to Facebook. Permissions will have to be checked on.
  • 1-2 people as administrators for now, and later on add the rest of the members as administrators.
  • Posts
    • An image with 150 words
    • The goal is to have something that people can look at as they scroll through their Facebook page. Later on, having a best practices document or “this is what posts should look like.”
  • Images only? Or other content? Are these questions worth asking? Video and audio are options as well.
  • Content warnings for anything objectionable?
    • E.g., racist image or rude language.
    • Dime novel cover illustrations
  • Style guide from Tumblr? Or start from scratch?
  • Only 206 Facebook likes. Building an audience may take a while.
  • What does success look like? Views? Reshares?

Future Steps for Social Media

• In the next newsletter, putting a disclaimer that this is something we’re trying out.
• See what the traffic is now and then look at it in 6 months’ time to see if it is worth doing.

Next Month

• Drafting a best practice document. Derive a lot from Tumblr.
• This month (late Feb/March): testing and drafting best practices document
• Confirm best practices and set up Google Form
• Goal: Launch postings in May
• Next meeting: Announcing posting in CARLI newsletter

Next Meeting

The next committee conference call will occur on March 26, 2019, from 9:00 to 10:00 am.