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Executive Committee

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

Thursday, September 11, 2003

3:30-5:00pm

428 Library

 

Present:  Paula Kaufman (chair), Lisa German, Janis Johnston, Bill Mischo, Lynne Rudasill, Lynn Wiley, Beth Woodard

 

1.  Review and approval of minutes from August 21

     Minutes were approved.

 

2.  Question Time

     Is there an Affirmative Action officer and an Equal Employment Opportunity Committee chair? Yes, Lisa Romero and Mary Mallory.

 

     Does Janis have access to the G: drive yet? Not, yet. Kim will check on it again.

 

3.  Observers at meetings document

     Approved. The document will be linked to the meeting minutes.

 

4.  RPC needs another member

     Paula will contact the suggested person and ask them to serve.

 

5.  Request from Miranda Remnek to confirm Marek Sroka as Head of cataloging in Slavic

     EC has set the policy that unit heads should be able to make reassignments in their own unit without consulting EC. New titles must be common use titles.

 

6.  Process for filling positions

     Divisions will have until October 17 to send positions requests to EC.  This will be done in the usual process. The Divisions will be asked to think creatively about filling positions and what they will do if a position cannot be filled.

 

     Some criteria the committee discussed  in determining whether to fill positions included:

1.      Accreditation requirements

2.      Previous commitments

3.      Unit Head positions

4.      Impact with quantitative data

5.      Uniqueness of expertise

 

7.    New Global Resources Center

       We will invite Karen Schmidt to the next meeting to answer questions.