Fondren Library Town Meeting March 6, 2012

Agenda Canopy Update—Sara Lowman Center for Written, Oral and Visual Communication—Sara Lowman Electronic Theses and Dissertations—Geneva Henry E-Science/Research—Geneva Henry Horizon Group update—David Bynog Strategic Plan—Melinda Flannery and Leah Krevit Senior Administrative Retreat update—Sara Lowman

West Side Canopy Project Goals of the project—cover from elements, lighting, signage Timeline—construction in mid-May

Center for Written, Oral and Visual Communication Overview of Program—new curricular writing requirement Collaboration with the library Space

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Geneva Henry

ETD Update ETDs are currently being accepted from students, but they are not yet required. The 2011/12 academic year will have both electronic and print submissions. Fees are lower for ETDs ($100 vs. $128 for print). Theses are still being submitted to ProQuest/UMI; will be submitted at end of academic year. Working with Central IT to include administrative forms from the student record in OnBase.

E-Science/Research Geneva Henry

E-Research Update ARL E-Science/E-Research webinars concluded Esther and Geneva attended capstone event in Phoenix to develop an E-Research strategic agenda Collaborating with IT’s research computing and Office of Sponsored Research Rice is a contributing institution to DMPTool for defining data management plans for grants (https://dmp.cdlib.org/) Hosting a brown-bag series of talks on e-science; next ones are 7 March, 4 April and 25 April

Horizon Report Update David Bynog

Melinda Flannery and Leah Krevit Strategic Plan Melinda Flannery and Leah Krevit

Contact Melinda or Leah for assistance! Fondranet Library Admin Workspace 2011-2012 High Level Goals Contact Melinda or Leah for assistance!

Senior Administrative Retreat Update Sara Lowman