MELA Minutes 2024-2025

Ms. Buffey Mathews, Ms. Michelle Pickering, Mr. Van Morse

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College

Ms. Sabine Zabarovska; Ms. Kim Harris,

Ms. Angel Nickens; Carla Ms. Malone; Mr. Aaron Payne

Northwest Mississippi Community College

Pearl River Community College

Ms. Michelle Mitchell

Southwest Mississippi Community College

Mr. Matt Calhoun

Dr. Krista LeBrun; Ms. Megan Akins; Dr. Christa Wilhite

MS Community College Board

1. Preliminaries 1. Call to Order: President Tequila Sunrise (ICC)

2. Roll Call: Carmen Brown (MDCC) 3. Approval of November Minutes:

1. Motion to approve: Buffey Mathews (MGCCC) 2. Second to approve: Chris Square (EMCC) 1. Motion to approve: Jason Cooley (JJC) 2. Second to approve: Michelle Mitchell (PRCC)

4. Approval of Agenda:

2. New Business

1. MCCB Reports 1. LeBrun

MACC Update Dr. Lebrun opened the meeting letting us know the main office had a power outage and would not be opened for a few days; therefore, she as well as all the staff at MCCB, were working remotely. Dr. Lebrun only had a few things to report which were the renewal contracts for TurnItIn and MELO. The renewal of the TII contract was approved by the group via an online vote in December. In addition, the MELO contract. MELO is moving to a multi-year contract and has a nearly $25000 increase in EBSCOHost, so it will need to be approved by MAC. Both items were sent to Dr. Graham to request their addition to the January agenda. She requested usage reports to have available when being presented to the MAC. Dr. LeBrun briefly gave us an overview of the usage. Last academic year, there were about 647,000 submissions across all community colleges with TurnItIn. Regarding EBSCOhost, since there will be meeting with the Librarians Association, Dr. Lebrun asked Seth Woods, the rep for EBSCOhost, to provide a