Attendees
John Ellis (Chair), Algonquin College - ellisj@algonquincollege.com
Justin Johnston, Fleming College - Justin.johnston@flemingcollege.ca
Jennifer Mo, OCLS - jmo@ocls.ca
Amanda Van Mierlo, Humber College - amanda.vanmierlo@humber.ca
Sarah Gillard, George Brown College - sgillard@georgebrown.ca
Thomas Guignard, OCLS - tguignard@ocls.ca
Tony Onorato & Erin Williams, Fanshawe College - aonorato@fanshawec.ca / ewilliams@fanshawec.ca
Regrets
Eva McDonald, Centennial College - emcdonald@centennialcollege.ca
Joy Wen, George Brown College - jwen@georgebrown.ca
Lingling Jiang, Sheridan College - lingling.jiang@sheridancollege.ca
Rebecca Pearson, Lambton College - rebecca.pearson@lambtoncollege.ca
Discussion Items
Committee membership
Sarah Gillard from George Brown college is joining the committee. Welcome Sarah!
Erin Williams from Fanshawe College is joining us today for the last time before going on leave, passing the baton to Tony Onorato. All the best Erin!
BOLT group (Banner Ontario Leadership Team)
John talked to Ruth from BOLT.
Requirement for Alma Certified Administrators
OCLS is currently negotiating with ExLibris on the terms of the agreement. One item on the list of changes they are pushing for is to remove the requirement for each college to have two Alma Certified Administrators. Instead, this requirement will be met on the consortial level: OCLS will ensure there are at least two Alma Certified Administrators across all participating colleges and OCLS.
Colleges that have the capacity to have staff train to become Alma Certified Administrators are still encouraged to do so. Currently, only colleges with an existing ProQuest subscription are able to sign to the ExLibris Academy website to register for the Alma certification course. Thomas is working with ExLibris to have them add the remaining colleges to the list. Currently, the colleges that are missing are Algonquin, Confederation, La Cité, Lambton and Northern.