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Meeting Minutes December 9, 2003

2 p.m. in the Haddad Room

A G E N D A

• Review of Goal 1 and Objectives
• Review of Goal 2 and Objectives
• Other

Review of Goal 1 and Objectives

The goal today is to go over Objectives 1 and 2.

Mark pointed out that there is a new Action 1.1.3. : Develop and incorporate outcome assessment, using the ACRL Standards for College Libraries, and other professional resources such as Nelson and Ferekes’ Standards and Assessment for Academic Libraries. We will look at the Outcome Assessment using the professional standards. Over time, we will adopt as much as possible. He asked for additional comments from the Committee concerning Goal 1. There were no comments.

Concerning Action 1.1.8 regarding whether or not Media Services collections should be merged into the Library holdings, Dolores Marek and Rick Venneri are very amicable to this suggestion. Items, such as, videos, CDs, tapes, etc., would be moved to the Library. Media Services would still be responsible for classroom setups. Many details would have to be handled first. Logistics is a big problem.

A lot of Media Services’ materials are already cataloged but still housed in Media Services. It would be better if all items are contained in one place, and Collection Development right now is a hit or miss situation.

Bob asked Mark what he thinks will be the hardest Objective to achieve. Mark replied, “The Budget.” Mark has asked for a lot that has never been asked for before, including two new staff positions. He is trying not to prioritize until all the Objectives have been gone over.

Review of Goal 2 and Objectives

Graham observed that there was an enormous amount of positions Mark wanted to add. He thinks this is a lot of “wants.” Mark said that basically the Library has been at the same standard for the last 15 years. For fiscal year 04-05 Mark has requested to convert the Technical Services position to a tenure-track position and to hire a full-time tenure-track librarian dedicated to developing distance education services.

Graham wanted to know if the second request is really necessary. There may be ways other than getting a full-time tenure track librarian. Can this be contracted out?

John A. replied that he doesn’t know of any library that does this.  It is better to have someone within the library. Bob said this decision would be made at the VPAA level, anyway. He also questioned the criteria used to determine faculty status. Do we want to continue this? Mark answered that it is either all are faculty or none are. Librarians are faculty. Staff are not.

Regarding 2.1.8 (converting two part-time reference librarians to one full-time tenure-track position) Mark commented that the staffing patterns were established a decade ago. We are understaffed! We need to increase the evening position by one third, and he would like to see them as tenure track. Graham thinks it is better to have a full-time person if the money is available. John E. commented that with the limited budget the University has, it might be better to use part time people. Graham pointed out that with part time people, they don’t need a second masters for promotion or tenure.

Other

Mark asked the Committee to go over Objectives 2 and 3 for the next meeting. However, no date was picked for the next meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 3 p.m.

Minutes submitted by: Virginia Preuss

Library Coordinator