Library Committee Handbook

Diversity Committee 

E-mail:
diversity@library.uiuc.edu

 

Library Diversity Committee Meeting Minutes

March 13, 2007
413 Main Library

Present: Cindy Ingold (chair), Mary Beth Allen, Lori Carroll, B.A. Davis-Howe, Bernice Harrington, Emily Love and Lisa Romero

  1. Minutes: The minutes from the January 9, 2007 were approved.

  2. Update on Diversity Talk by OEOA Speaker (Emily Love)

    "Just Be Fair" Library Forum will be held on March 14, 2007 beginning at 10 a.m. in Grainger Commons. Lisa will work on evaluation forms. She will make 30 copies.

    Cindy and Emily will look at the conference room to make sure everything is set up for the forum.

    Chad Martinez will be the speaker instead of Menah Pratt; Cindy will introduce Chad.

    Committee members will arrive at Grainger around 9:30 a.m. to help set up room.

    Evaluations will be distributed and summarized. The Committee discussed including a question about how the Library can act on its commitment to diversity. Lisa will work on this and send to the committee for review.

    An announcement should be sent out stating the forum is an approved event.  Cindy will check with Library HR to get wording and will send out an e-mail.

  3. Lincoln Trails Library System Diversity Forum

    LTLS will be hosting a free statewide diversity forum to be held at the Hawthorn Suites, in Bloomington on March 27, 2007 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Bernice and Emily are interested in going.

  4. Diversity Website

    Emily and her grad assistant are currently compiling information on campus, community and library resources. She is looking at the web sites at Penn State and the University of Tennessee. The University of Tennessee's website is specifically for the library committee. Emily will use the undergrad template to set up the website.  The only issue with the site is where to link it from. The site should be linked from the Library's main Gateway page, and not just from the Undergraduate Library page. The site will be titled Diversity instead of Multicultural.

  5. New Business

    • Two people will no longer serve on the committee, Chris Hamb and Raj Chilana. Do we want to replace those individuals right away or wait until the beginning of the fall semester? The committee agreed to wait to replace the 2 individuals.
    • We will be working on ideas for fall. The committee will develop questionnaire over the summer utilizing web tools.

  6. Next Meeting:

    April 10, 2007, 10-11 a.m. in room 413 Main Library