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)

• Nothing new to report since last press release in December
• No new content needed to schedule at this time

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

• Task Assignments
• Send Content to Rogan
• Seeking input on new people in community & new libraries joining Evergreen
• Layout is forthcoming

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