 Again. So welcome everyone to our first meeting of 2022 for your DLF's Museums cohort. So we're just a heads up that we're recording today's meeting and it'll be shared on clear DLF's YouTube channel so keeping video on or off is completely up to you just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I've shared it in the chat but the agendas and meeting notes document for the year are at bit.ly slash DLF Museums 2022 instead of a nice Google link we've I've learned. So, if you haven't already in the shared notes, add your name your institution pronouns, and just you know whether you're new or returning attendee of the cohort today. So if you aren't familiar with the shared note stock we encourage meeting attendees to take collaborative notes and therefore reference later either for folks who attended the meeting if there's any links notes etc you want to make sure you remember later, or for anyone who won't be able to attend person who will be watching the meeting later. It's nice to be able to have some notes from the meeting to refer to so feel free to jot down any any relevant information in there. Oh, and I apologize, I don't know if I introduced Gail Schachter I'm the program associate for DLF. So just really super briefly just because these slides are linked to in the meeting notes and any links to stuff that you want to find out more about the cohort are available, right in the slides there, but just really brief for anyone new or people who are a little less familiar with the museum's cohort. So the cohort has been around since 2015. It was started basically as an exclusive group of DLF members museum members of DLF with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In 2018 with some additional support from Kress we opened a call for new members to the cohort and expanded with an additional 14 institutions joining up that year. Again this was still just, you know, a smaller, you know, smallish group, and it was just open to staff and those working at those museums. So in 2019. The cohort opened up to basically anyone with museum interests to just put it very broadly. We sort of like DLF's working groups we wanted to make sure that it was open to all regardless of whether you are affiliated with one of our members or not it's just you know, open access open, open equitable things that's what we're about here at DLF so, and actually 2019 in the fall is when I started working for clear and took over the cohort from the previous DLF staff member back of Kwan, who sort of started up the cohort originally with the member museums. Um, so now we're at 2022. Two years into, you know, pandemic and over the past couple years since I've been working with DLF we've had continued to have monthly meetings of the cohort and we've had some really great people come to us and talk about a really nice wide variety of topics and just generally a nice sort of gathering place to fill a need for the community, because there's this sort of overlap of museums folks, you know, museum library folks with digital library and archives practitioners and there's a lot of, you know, gray area and overlap in a lot of the institutions particularly smaller ones so we wanted to just, you know, we're sort of a gathering point for all these folks. So the plan for 2022 is just because due to constraints on staff time. We are going to DLF staff, I myself will be organizing as opposed to monthly meetings in 2022 we're going to do one a quarter and you'll see on the share notes the dates of all the meetings for outside of, you know, a meeting for the DLF forum which is sort of in the works to brainstorm about, but in terms of meetings you can attend that are not at a conference that you have to register for will have four meetings this year. Today, April, July and October. I would say that we won't return to a monthly meeting format in the future just for right now. DLF is taking some time to figure out what are some future directions for museums cohort because it's a little, even though it's open to participation like all of our working groups it's sort of a little bit different and so we, we want to remain remain a dedicated for the community and I'll in the next slide I'll explain some of the ways we will do that. But we wanted to sort of as a program really look into what are some potential next steps for museums cohort so it's very much in the infancy of planning right now so as we have updates we will of course share them with the group. And, you know, it's sort of a, you know, if you have thoughts on the cohort you're always welcome to get in touch with us as well where we're trying to keep thing the lines of communication open that way. Sort of in, you know, to elaborate a little bit on what our plans are for this year so we'll have the staff organized calls once a quarter. However, if community members I you or you know anyone else who's involved with the cohort has a topic or, you know, anything where you would like to organize a meeting of the group and that could be on our standard we stand we typically had our last Wednesday of every month so if you want to have a meeting at that time like an, you know, sort of regular museums cohort call, you can schedule then if you want to schedule it at any time that is more convenient for you if that was if those Wednesdays afternoons don't work. We're happy to give you the same kind of support that we give to all our working groups in that you can schedule these calls on our zoom account by getting in touch with me. And, you know, if you need help promoting any initiatives that you're working on related to the cohort or any meetings you're planning to hold. We're happy to be at your disposal in terms of support in that regard so you know we're always happy to support you all sort of if you have something that you want to take the lead on in terms of whether it's meetings or, you know, putting together a project under the cohort. We're always happy to have a limit there so we're always happy to have a discussion with you on that. Outside of meetings we also have our lists serve and again there's links to this I have links to the stuff in the slides and this document that you can grab later. And if you're not already subscribed to our dedicated museums cohort lists serve, I definitely encourage you just to subscribe there. That's where all of the announcements related to the cohort get posted, as well as any kind of, you know, occasionally job postings will be in there, if folks are working on something and they have a question to pose. Outside of our normal meeting schedule. That's another great place to ask it it's really just meant there to be a space for the community to raise these issues that maybe other lists or forums aren't really the, you know, or in addition to. And as I mentioned, DLF staff are always happy to discuss your ideas for the cohort, including even if it's not. Something like you organizing a meeting on your own if you have someone you want us to get in touch with to see if they're interested in speaking or any kind of topics you want the cohort to discover, then that's kind of. And, you know, we're again, it's really, there's no set rules to things so any ideas we're open to. So these are sort of the ways to stay in touch with the museum's cohort if you're tweeting about us the hashtag is DLF museums. Obviously viewing these you won't. These are all linked to just download the slides for meeting notes. And also just have the link to that in the chat again for you again if you are joining us a little later and don't have the link to today's meeting notes. So if you want to just sort of overview of the group itself the history of the group, the various, you know, link to our listserv. If you have any other relevant group links like our shared drive, you can click on the link to the group overview on DLF website discussion list pretty self explanatory. As I mentioned, this meeting is being recorded and not all past meetings but several of our past meetings from the past couple years have been recorded the presentations and are available on clear DLF YouTube channel. So please feel free to watch those at your leisure and then as always you can contact DLF staff at info at didgelib.org. So in terms of the rest of the meeting. I would like to sort of leave things open to the group for, you know, questions just talking about you know, any thoughts you have on the group writ large anything covered on the survey that we put out in November at the DLF forum. So sort of with that survey got a good idea of the types of topics the group is interested in and we're sort of using that to guide our internal planning for the group and again I don't have a ton of updates in terms of the plans but again as we discuss with those and we have a better idea of how things will take shape with the group. Later in the year and beyond. We will, of course, get the word out to you all. And then I think I haven't mentioned in the. Let me stop sharing my screen so I can see our notes again. All right, there we go. So let me. I can see everything. So yeah so our next meeting, and I mean I'm jumping ahead a little bit but just to get, let you all know the next meeting that we'll have as a group as is in April 27 and we're sort of jointly hosting that meeting with our list. And it is museum library division and the topic is going to be digital preservation to small to medium for small to medium sized institutions which that topic as a whole was one of the more popular choices from the survey we put out. And there's certainly a lot of interest and desire for more knowledge of that in the community so we're, you know, checking checking around to see who will be able to have presented that and hope to have, well obviously have an announcement for April but again just make sure you're subscribed to the listserv for any updates on future museums and then as for our museums in July and October we don't have a set agenda or topic for those meetings yet so if you have any thoughts on those or something that you want to bring to the info at digital.org feel free to email me for that one as well so now that you've heard my whole speech for today that's kind of it from me I kind of want to just if folks are new and you have questions about anything with the cohort now would be a great time to I'm more than happy to address those or if anyone who's returning cohort member has anything to throw in please do or if there's any thoughts related to the survey itself or any of the sort of topics therein that this group covers happy to talk about them now. But yeah, I'll just sort of stop talking leave it to the group now if anyone, you can either put it in the chat or or on Mike either one is whichever works for you. I mean, I just wanted to express gratitude to DLF for having the inclusive spirit that surrounds this group, I've, and thank you to you for hosting this small off camera. I'm gathering today I kind of feel like that might be symptomatic of, at least where where I'm at as an institution which is, which is, I'm sorry I'm not an institution but where my institution is at which is that it's, we're so small, and we're so stretched right now in just trying to carry on basic functions that to me this cohort is just kind of a welcome nudge periodically and quarterly is great monthly I fully appreciate that that might be up to up to members to provide the evidence for some of that. But that's, that's just kind of where I'm at I don't know if others are in a similar boat right now but I just wanted to give voice to that, maybe, and the upcoming the April calls sounds like a fantastic topic and a discussion that I would like to be part of. If I can manage the time then. So that's it. I don't trust if I wasn't hosting the meeting today I would have my camera off as well. But, and that's the thing that you know, especially in terms of pulling back a little bit from monthly meetings and sort of evaluating what may be a good direction for the cohort we're very aware of the fact that people are very fatigued and I mean even you know personally when I have groups outside of work asking me for stuff I'm very, very selective with my time because we're all I think we're all sort of in varying degrees of burnt out. And so, yeah, we wanted, you know, we wanted to make sure this was carrying on, and not sort of abandoned just because, you know, oh we don't have time to do a monthly meeting for everyone so we figured this would be a good, a good way to sustain this group of people taking the time to get to really focus on what will work for this cohort because I think for the past couple of years I've been trying, or yeah, I've basically been trying to turn this into more of a standard DLF working you know just like you can't really fit a square peg in a round hole so you know something about the nature of this group. It's a really special and important, you know, area and place for folks to come together on these on the topics relevant to our membership but you can't sort of force volunteerism on people so so that's why we're sort of you know we're looking into what would make sense opportunity wise for the group and you know whether that's looking into funding for stuff or etc again you know it's all very in the infancy of planning but we're always happy to support not just museums cohort but the wider DLF community in any kind of initiatives you want to take on you know our working groups are generally or you know all sort of just a lot of them just spring up out of conversations at DLF forum people like oh we should we should address this and you know that's all of a sudden you know they just hit the ground running so that's why you know we're always sort of like the door is always open so to speak to have a conversation with us if you have ideas about anything so I always want to make sure that I'm sort of you know really really sending that point home to folks that were we're always happy to listen to you all. Yeah, so I'll you know anyone else feel free to just interrupt me. I will just add obviously our April meeting we're focusing on the digital preservation talk but we do recognize that there's other needs and interests in the community so it's we're not planning to have all of our meetings this year focused on that and yeah I just wanted to reassure anyone if you thought like it's just going to be a digital preservation year for museums cohort that's one thing we're doing but it's obviously not the only thing. And yeah and there's also some overlap. And if you ever need resources from our other working groups again feel free to contact your staff, but we have a few different groups that have documentation that while not necessarily aimed for our museum specifically there you know could be useful guidance in there. I'm thinking of stuff like our foreign digital access working group. We also have our digital pedagogy group if you're looking for more teaching resources there's I'm like I work with working group all the time then all of a sudden I'm like wait what are all the working groups. So you can always go to digital.org slash groups to find out more about what our groups are doing so I always want to make sure that you all know that those resources are there as well. So beyond that any questions about the group any thoughts about, especially looking ahead to our July and October meetings which I know seem far away but it's already almost February. So any thoughts about topics you'd really like to get in front of my eyes and make sure we try and maybe explore at one of those meetings. And if you can't think of something now that's fine you can always add it to the meeting notes later, or email us. But yeah chat is totally fine for questions or comments as well. I wanted to make sure it's giving folks enough time to type in the chat if they needed to but don't see anything coming in yet. But otherwise, yeah if folks are a little tapped out for the day I get that. So you know we can definitely end things a little early and give you back maybe half hour of your day. I will stick around in the room I'll stop the recording and stick around in the room for a little bit if anyone wanted to chat about something off camera real quick, but otherwise. If you're coming and, as always feel free to email us anytime with any questions about anything and looking forward to see you all in April, if not sooner. But yeah, thank you and have a good day.