{"id":3249,"date":"2014-03-12T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2014-07-03T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T14:31:18","slug":"tag-meeting-notes-2014-03-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2014\/03\/12\/tag-meeting-notes-2014-03-12\/","title":{"rendered":"TAG Meeting Notes 2014-03-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAG Meeting March 12, 2014 12:00pm-1:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendees:<\/strong><\/span>
\nTim Cannon, Paul Cutrufello, Kim Daniloski, Dave Dzurec, Tara Fay, Jim Franceschelli, Eugeniu Grigorescu, Katie Iacocca, Charles Kratz (guest), Sandy Pesavento, Kristen Yarmey<\/p>\n

1. Lunch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TAG members thanked CAS Dean Brian Conniff for sponsoring lunch for our meeting. Dave thanked Mary Ann Maslar in the CAS Dean’s office for making the arrangements. Charles noted that he is willing to sponsor lunch at one of TAG’s remaining Spring 2014 meetings.<\/p>\n

2. Items for Discussion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WordPress<\/span><\/p>\n

Dean of the Library and Information Fluency Charles Kratz asked to come to a TAG meeting to speak about the campus WordPress network (sites.scranton.edu<\/a>), which has\u00a0been a topic of TAG discussion\u00a0since 2011<\/a>. (In preparation for today’s meeting, Kristen emailed TAG members notes summarizing the history of the campus WordPress network as well as a\u00a0justification for the academic use of WordPress<\/a>\u00a0that former TAG co-chair Jeremy Sepinsky had composed for IR in Spring 2013.)<\/p>\n

At our last meeting in February 2014<\/a>, we received word from Jim that IR would not be expanding support for sites on the campus WordPress network until at least 2015. Subsequently, at the February 14 Faculty Senate meeting, Senator Terry Sweeney expressed concerns about access to the campus WordPress network.\u00a0There was seemingly\u00a0some confusion at the Senate meeting about CTLE’s role in the WordPress network and a misunderstanding that CTLE staff were responsible for determining which requests for WordPress sites would be approved, when this decision actually rests with IR staff.<\/p>\n

Charles (who oversees both the Library and CTLE) has since met with IR and CTLE staff in order to seek clarification on the criteria and process for WordPress site requests, as well as to ascertain whether there might be a middle ground for supporting faculty use of the campus WordPress network. Charles noted that the CTLE, while currently very busy with the Desire2Learn transition, is interested in supporting faculty use of WordPress and would be willing to support a few pilot sites in fall 2014. He suggested that TAG might identify faculty who would be interested in a WordPress pilot in the near future, and advocated for transparency for faculty regarding the criteria and process for site requests.<\/p>\n

Prior to today’s meeting, Kristen had asked Jim for IR’s criteria for reviewing requests for WordPress sites, which she then emailed to TAG members. These are as follows:<\/p>\n

Blogs are available to the University community to provide an area for discussion and collaboration. The following criteria will be applied to these requests:<\/p>\n