February 25, 2021 Meeting of Library Staff Support Committee

Time and Location of Meeting

February 25, 2021

Agenda Details

Agenda

LSSC Meeting Agenda 02-25-21

  1. Approve January Minutes
  2. Liaison & Committee Reports
  • Break
  1. C. meeting (02-15-21)
    1. Inclusivity of staff in decision processes – recap
    2. Plans/ideas for next month, Mar 22, 2021, 2pm
  2. Conference CSE support
    1. Reaching Forward South (merged) / ALA
    2. Contact in Business office to help register awardees
  • Subcommittee volunteers to help with logistics
  1. Conference awardees, follow up from last year
  1. Other Comments and Updates
    1. LSSC representative for unit head review committee – Kristen Blankenship
    2. Brian Clark (Sep 2019 – Jun 2021) stepped down, liaison opening for Tech Division to fill.
    3. Professional Development Days Spring Semester (1/3 over)
    4. Drop in hours for LSSC
    5. Diversity Committee (social – distanced option)
    6. DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Committee) – thoughts on 2007 and 2015 climate qual/ morale survey
    7. OEC (Outreach and Engagement Committee)
    8. Building Project – UGL staff reorganization questions
    9. Other Comments and Updates

 

 

Minutes Details

Attendees

Attendees for February 25, 2021 zoom meeting

Kim Hutcherson (Administration)
Jan Adamczyk (Area Studies)
Karen Huck (Arts & Humanities)
Kristen Blankenship (Central Public Services)
Michelle Self-Ballard (Central Public Services)
Jessica Sommers (Law)
Erik Chapman (Life Sciences)
Julia Cross (Residential Hall Libraries)
Tony Hynes (Special Collections)
Rachael Johns (Technical Services)

Minutes

Minutes for February 25, 2021 meeting

Approve November Minutes: Approved with no corrections.

Liaison Reports and Updates: 

Administration: The faculty and staff Preventing Harassment and Discrimination training is March 1 to April 2, 2021.

Administrative Council:  Did not meet

Area Studies:  Discussed the Library Building Project.  There are 2 phases which cost 2 million dollars, proceeding with the lower cost due to budget which will take 5 or more years.  Different departments are questioning dropping the price.

Arts & Humanities:  Katie Lambaria spoke about wanting Graduate Assistants to get acquainted with units with an idea to create a standardized check list of what people would cover; discussion on creating funds for digital humanities because currently there aren’t funds for collections; Tom Teper requested for feedback about Unit Heads dealing with strategies for combatting stress during the pandemic. It was suggested that it would be best for Unit Heads to talk to each other first to discuss where stressors are coming from and what structures are in place to handle; Also discussed a 3% reduction for collection development.  There is a question on whether it is a 1 year or 3-5 year reduction; Organization Development & Training Advisory Committee asking about how people dealt with the non-instructional days such as what they did, how units did and was it a  stress reducer not a stress inducer.

Central Public Services:  Merinda Hensley talked about the Archiving and Thesis Capstone project.  It’s a new way of archiving that is still in the works.

Central Access Service:  Locker pick up is very busy.   Answered 1000 emails within a week.

UGL: Can reserve study space on the same day that it is needed and they are adding more seats. We did hire one of the res hall SAs and I am not sure if we need to hire more SAs at this time but please feel free to send them my way.

Law:  Will be opening for study space, not sure when yet.

Life Sciences:   Checking with ACES Library if they can be flexible and prepared for study space; there was some discussion on noise level (hear a lot of noise from first level).

 

Residence Hall:  U of I alumnus, Mikki Kendall distributed copies of her book: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot books for free.  She will be giving a talk on March 2nd , sponsored by Women’s Resources Center, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives, the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, and other co-sponsors; Res Hall was given a 5 million dollar gift from former employee and a small portion will be used for res hall library; Main Library Administration denied their request to be a holding pick up area; communication with Main Library Administration on-going about recalling books that have been checked out for over a year and they do need them back to circulate to others.

Special Collections: Talked about the building project; Lynne Thomas is on a committee looking at phase 5. RBML will hopefully hire students in the fall once they have a better sense of needs.

Technical Services:  Didn’t meet

AGENDA ITEMS

  1. C. meeting (02-15-21)
    1. Discussed if anyone had anything to address E.C. about.
  2. Conference CSE support
    1. Reaching Forward South (merged) / ALA
    2. Contact in Business office to help register awardees
      1. Erik Chapman sent out an email to BHRS.
  • Subcommittee volunteers to help with logistics
    1. Kim suggested that “subcommittee” be changed to “working group”.
  1. Conference awardees, follow up from last year – Early bird registration begins March 1st for ALA Annual
    1. awardees Karen Huck and Jennifer Vargo Hauser.
  • Other Comments and Updates
    1. LSSC representative for unit head review committee – Kristen Blankenship
      1. Congratulations, Kristen!
    2. Brian Clark (Sep 2019 – Jun 2021) stepped down, liaison opening for Tech Division to fill.
      1. LSSC members will check with others to see if anyone is interested.
    3. Professional Development Days Spring Semester (1/3 over)
    4. Drop in hours for LSSC
    5. Diversity Committee (social – distanced option)
      1. No updates.
    6. DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Committee) – thoughts on 2007 and 2015 climate qual/ morale survey
      1. Task force – shaping up. There are 3 teams.  The next meeting will decide how to distribute between the teams.  LSSC will discuss the 2007/2015 climate qual/morale survey at next meeting
    7. OEC (Outreach and Engagement Committee)
    8. Building Project – UGL staff reorganization questions
    9. Other Comments and Updates
    10. Non-Instructional Days
      1. Confusion about the day. Should it be a vacation day, do whatever you want day without using benefits, a day off without using benefits but for relax work such as self-improvement, webinars, etc.  Consensus was that all LSSC members enjoyed their relaxing day.

 

Next LSSC Zoom Meeting: March 25, 2021