Evergreen Outreach Committee Meeting February 1, 2023 4 p.m. Eastern, 1 p.m. Pacific
Attending: Rogan Hamby, Stephanie Leary, Ron Gagnon, Ruth Frasur, Debbie Luchenbill, Kathryn Nesbit, Andrea Buntz Neiman, Jennifer Weston (minutes)
Press releases (Ron)
Social Media (Kathryn/Rogan)
Promoting Community Survey – Rogan has been promoting Survey and will send additional reminders
Kathryn will send survey-specific tweets and Facebook posts for promotion
Kathryn will continue to highlight video content to boost visibility
Question to Conference Committee about social media plan; we can provide credentials to conference planning team
ACTION: Debbie/Ruth will discuss with conference committee
Annual Report
Community Spotlight (Andrea, Ruth) - form
Threadless
Board voted in favor of this to approve
Rogan will work with Galen to get online shop up and running
Debbie bring merch to conference? Suggestion to bring to conference as give-aways with option for people to donate online; Rogan will take suggestion to the Board.
Follow-up Community Survey -
There will be another survey to include the following topics: (we can add to the list with additional ideas)
other
self check
collection analysis (collectionhq, libraryiq)
patron engagement/messaging (orange boy, patron point)
discovery layer (vufind, biblio, aspen, eds)
reservation management (envisionware, libki)
print management (envisionware, … another)
content management system (libguides, subjects plus)
ill (clio, fulfillment, SHAREit)
ERM (coral)
eCard Sign-Up
Dashboarding
Readers Advisory (Novelist)
Content enrichment
Website Improvement Project
Stephanie will review to make suggestions
Discussion on path forward
Discussion about considering professional hosting service and/or moving to a non-WP host
We will put this back on the regular agenda & perhaps invite Chris Sharp to a future meeting to discuss next steps
Stephanie was given logins to both the current site & the test site
Meeting adjourned at 4:58pm ET