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Date

Attendees

  • Michelle Bickert (Unlicensed), DPLA

  • Rachel Frick, DPLA

  • Micah May, NYPL
  • James English, NYPL
  • Valerie Horton, Minitex
  • Greg Pronevitz, Massachusetts Library System
  • Selvon Smith, Brooklyn Public Library
  • Michael Blackwell, ReadersFirst/St. Mary's County Public Library
  • Michael Santangelo, BookOps/Brooklyn Public Library
  • Toby Greenwalt, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Library
  • Maura Marx, IMLS
  • Veronda Pitchford, Reaching Across Illinois Library System
  • Christine Peterson, AMIGOS Library Services
  • Paula MacKinnon, CALIFA Library Group
  • Kelvin Watson, Queens Public Library
  • Anna Fahey-Flynn, Boston Public Library
  • Melissa Andrews, Boston Public Library

Goals

  • Group introductions
  • RFP update
  • Discuss workstreams and commitments for future meetings
  • Discuss details of upcoming DPLAfest, next LEAP F2F meeting

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
IntrosAll
  • 18 attendees
Discuss RFP statusMicah
  • Received a lot of questions from vendors
  • Vendor responses due 1/15
  • Hoping to see a LEAP Marketplace prototype by late 2016
  • NYPL has drafted a financial model for viability of LEAP governing organization
    • Available for us to review (possibly require an NDA? Maybe not for grant partners)
    • Partners had questions about staffing, how long financial projections go, time until profitable
      • Good discussion for Governance workstream to take up 
  • Micah addressed COSLA during ALAMW
    • COSLA a good spot to look for potential partners; some members looking for ways to co-invest
    • Utilize COSLA as a sounding board?
    • Best Practices & Advocacy workstream can reach out here
  • Discussion of where content for LEAP will be hosted
DPLA role
in ebook conversations		Rachel
  • DPLA received Sloan Foundation funding to explore ebook landscape and help develop national strategy
    • Holding the space for stakeholders to come to the table and discuss
  • Community conversations will inform LEAP but also other projects (like SimplyE for Consortia)
    • Inviting people from outside the LEAP partners as well
  • Will work with groups and organizations holding similar conversations like ReadersFirst, ASCLA, DCWG
  • We are recruiting more voices; want people to feel open to joining the conversation
  • White paper on our progress at the end of the year
WorkstreamsMichelle
  • See here for workstreams
  • Will have co-chairs and members solidified by end of January
  • Need 1-2 co-chairs to facilitate and 3-4 active group members to help with tasks
    • These may change over time; ok to be flexible
  • Partners want to make sure these conversations made available online to those who can't join us
    • Listservs and open calls for workstreams? Larger groups?

DPLAfest 2016

April 13-15

Washington DC

Michelle &
Rachel

  • http://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2016/
  • Next face to face meeting for LEAP
    • Wednesday April 13 - day before the conference formally begins 
    • Will have a few hours for group and for individual workstreams
  • We will have another ebook track this year but it won't be quite the intensive workshop that it was last year
    • Hoping to add people outside our group to give updates on their work, i.e. Charlotte Initiative, Readers First
  • Need to add notes and give updates for people who can't participate
  • Please submit topics! Submissions due 1/22
  • Registration is open

Action items

  • Solidify workstream co-chairs and members  
  • Register for DPLAfest (all)
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