Fall 2022 Meeting Minutes
Minutes of CALLR Fall
meeting
Date:
Thursday, November 11, 2022 Time:
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location:
Lee College Baytown
Members present:
Telishia
"Tee" Murray, Paul Arrigo, Helena Gawu, Phil Roché, Keitha Robinson
Kathleen Dillon, Henri Achee, Alexandria Trombley, Carmen Walton, Samantha
Smith. Samantha Mueller, Karyn Jones, Nicole Brown, Sandra Brown, Jennifer Crispin,
Mira Washington, Rudy Silva, Kasey
Fuller, Phil Roche, Pam Wells, , Chad Clark. Bill Hurd, Joanna Tapp, Michael Mitchell,
Vivienne McClendon, Kathy…..
The meeting
was started at 10 a.m. with a welcome address by Telishia Mickens – Chair of
CALLR (Director of Library and Learning Resources, Galveston College Library)
Speaker: Mike Crowe from EBSCO (sponsored
breakfast)
Topic: TexShare Aftermath—Where Do We Go
From Here Powerpoint https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1K71pr42ktW-un8pBA1I-S7mYaVhyztPv/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=113954288921906744363&rtpof=true&sd=true
Business meeting.
The minutes
of the spring meeting were accepted after a motion by Phil Roche and seconded
by Keitha Robinson.
Library jobs
University
of Houston Clear- Lake has 12 openings
Galveston
college has one opening
Brazasport
has some compact shelving to giveaway
Next
meeting- University of Houston Clear Lake April 27th.
Elections - New officers
Chair:
Helena Gawu, Lamar State College-Port Arthur,
Vice
Chair/Program Coordinator: Phil Roche, Brazasport College
Secretary: Jenifer
Crispin San Jacinto College
RefShare/Techshare
: Karen Jones San Jacinto College
Webmaster:
Alexandria Kennedy, University of Houston Clear Lake
Past
officers
Chair: Telishia
"Tee" Murray,
Vice
Chair/Program Coordinator: Helena Gawu, Lamar State College-Port Arthur,
Secretary: Open
position
RefShare/TechShare:
Chair Paul Arrigo
Webmaster: Chad
Clark
Refshare discussion - What role
does your library play regarding Textbooks?
1. What type of Textbook business model
does your campus use?
a. Bookstore?
b. Electronic
Textbook Services like VitalSource, BibliU, Redshelf, etc..
c. Open
Educational Resources (OER)?
d. Combination
E-Textbook, Open Educational Resources (OER), & Print Resources?
e. Other?
2. What role or roles does your library
play in that process?
3. What role would you like to play if it
was allowed?
4. What services or resources do you
provide students who may not have the funds to pay for their textbook?
a. Provide a
list of etextbooks that are available in your ebook databases?
b. Refer students
to Chegg or Amazon Kindle for purchase?
c. Check out
Amazon Kindles for textbook access?
d. You have a
limited collection of print textbooks that you purchase that students can use
in the library only. (Only one copy of
the textbook for each course)
5. How economical have these services
been?
6. Is the cost per use or cost/benefit
worth it? a. If so, how?
7. Did you have a choice in participating
or were you voluntold?
The meeting
concluded with a motion by Paul Arrigo seconded by Henri Achee