| Item | Who | Notes |
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| Intro to Study Hall format | Melanie | |
| Housekeeping | Melanie | - The Outlook invite for the meeting was suggested as a way to get organized - was it useful?
- the majority of attendees did find it helpful
- Next month is the last meeting of the semester -
- Do we want to do anything special for that meeting?
- Do we have any special goals for that meeting?
- Things we want to shore up or have ready for January?
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| Recap on digital scholarship | Melanie/Jennifer | - There have been 2 campus-wide gatherings
- They pulled together representatives from groups inside the libraries doing related work
- The TX DH Consortium is working on fleshing out their website - the area where you can make a profile with projects and special interests so that people can find each other and connect
- Next TX DH Consortium will be in Arlington in April
- UT-wide meetings have been informal - conversation, getting people subscribed to the UT-DH listserv
- a couple of projects have already come out of that - possible grant proposals
- the meetings have been advertised on campus but have also pulled in some folks from outside of campus
- The TX DH consortium list would be a good place to push the interinstitutional conversation around DH
- Last session there was a discussion about combining DP questions in the DH survey with Jennifer and Ece
- They surveyed the UTLib group about the survey and identified DH projects/relationships that were preexisting
- Also concerns about giving the impression that the survey implies immediate action on DH on campus, which would not have been accurate
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| Environmental Scan of Complex Objects on Campus | Melanie/Katie/Jennifer/Adam | - Thinking about the best way to do this
- Surveys introduce the following issues:
- response rate
- promises/expectation management
- people feel obligated to answer even if the available responses do not describe their practice
- Perhaps the environmental scan should be more like interviews or focus groups
- Interviews would allow us to build relationships
- How closely related are these two efforts
- It sounds like these two efforts should be different
- Adam feels that perhaps one way to go about it is to focus the scan on specific departments
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