February 22, 2016 Meeting of Executive Committee

1.   Approve minutes from February 8
2.   Question Time
3.   Innovation Fund Report
4.   Benefits for emeritus faculty in the Library
5.   Law Librarian Status Update
6.   Digital Humanities Needs Assessment Advisory Group

John Wilkin, chair; Kirstin Dougan, vice-chair; Mary Laskowski, secretary; MJ Han, Bill Mischo, Nancy O’Brien, Lynn Rudasill (by phone), Sarah Williams; Recording-Kim Matherly

1.   Approve minutes from February 8
Minutes approved as amended with a motion by Nancy O’Brien, seconded by Mary Laskowski.

2.   Question Time
A personnel issue was discussed.

John has agreed to chair a search committee for the Vice Provost for Budget & Resource Planning. This position will be in addition to Vicki Gress’s position and will be a faculty positon. It will be full time and filled through an internal search.

A personnel issue was discussed.

EC discussed the Law Library collection and how it will be funded and how their collection will be cared for. John will be talking about a proposal next week with Dean Amar, Faye Jones, and Jamelle Sharp, Associate Dean.

ClimateQual-John met with Cindy Ingold. A number of things were assigned to the response team, but it has been disbanded. Cindy has updated the document to reflect this change. John and Cindy will meet with Greg Knott, Beth Woodard, Qiang Jin, Erik Chapman, JoAnn Jacoby, Beth Sandore, Tom Teper and Dani Postula to prioritize and strategize the recommendations.

After the faculty meeting, EC discussed when documents get posted for discussion. EC continues to appreciate and value feedback from faculty and staff.

Some residence halls are closing their Libraries. Their books are part of the Library collection. Mary will be meeting with Tom Teper to discuss next steps.

Karen Hogenboom, chair of the Bylaws committee, responded to EC’s questions about the bylaws. It was determined that there are no changes needed.
 
3.   Hinchliffe Innovation Fund Report
Lisa asked for an extension through June 30. EC agreed, but would like her to move forward with accepting and preparing reports for publication so that when the DOI’s become available they can be assigned quickly.

4.   Benefits for emeritus faculty in the Library
MJ, Nancy and Lynne will work on a document and bring it back to EC by the end of April.

5.   Law Librarian Status Update
EC discussed the documents that Law provided and will send them back a response.

6.   Digital Humanities Needs Assessment Advisory Group

Approved. The name of the group should be changed to Working Group instead of Advisory Group.