9 February 2022
Agenda items with Notes on Decisions, Actions, and Responsibilities
- Performance evaluations update
- FY period for annual reviews of A&PS, using the form as amended by LLT and approved by HR. Roll out with special meeting of A&PS staff in March.
- Budget
Student wage budget for next year–unclear at this point if it will increase to meet new minimum wage and/or new structure. As soon as VH knows she will ask LLT, LC and Student Supervisors group to be involved in thinking through priorities and possibilities for each unit’s student wage budget.
Library reps to various consortial/state/national/international groups
- We need a list of these representatives. VH will ask Matt to work on this–he will be in contact with library staff, probably through LibLowdown to collect this information.
- Alison volunteered to be rep for NEO-RLS
Strategic Directions doc
- Drafting Committee nearly finished (reviewing their work now).
- Will go to LLT and LC on afternoon of Feb. 10. Then to GF Lib Committee and Student Library Advisory Board and full staff for review and comment. Then as official report/document to the Deans.
PanLibrary Forum planning spreadsheet (please use to get items/reports on the monthly agenda!)
- March–with Music focus: Caleb will provide an Avalon demonstration featuring a Neuman playlist. Debbie will discuss Neumann postdoc search. William Quillen, Dean of Conservatory will be our guest.
- Circ Working Group–will give a committee report.
- Friends–Perspective update
Fire and exit safety training in Feb.
- Waiting on dates and times from campus safety. Two sessions in Terrell, one Conservatory Library, Art, and Science.
Serials cancellation project
The full list of subscriptions for review and cancellations to date will be discussed at a liaisons meeting next week; there will be a cover memo that provides the context of the process for all faculty, but liaisons will correspond with their departments individually, as usual.
Some departments have already cut and their liaisons will write appropriate memos with the list. Otherwise, cover memo will state only that the libraries have been asked to cut 15% from their FY2020 budget by FY2023 and that we would appreciate faculty assistance and support in canceling lesser-used serials, with the understanding that Resource Sharing/ILL will always do their best to get them what they need. We will also warn them that a database cancellation project will follow hard on the heels of the serials project. Deadline needed so that we don’t needlessly pay for renewals of titles that will be cut. Renewals are on rolling schedules, but goal is to get this feedback from faculty by April 1. “ It is possible that we will have to come back to faculty with Cost per use and say, you didn’t say we could cut this, but we need to, based on cost and CPU, sorry.”
