Time and Location of Meeting
June 23, 20141:30 pm - 3:00 pm 428 Main Library
Agenda Details
Agenda
1. 1:30-2:00 AULs
a. Organizational document
b. NSM Update – Sue
c. Search Update – Tom
2. Approve Minutes from June 9
3. Question Time
4. Position Description Approvals
a. Web Developer and User Interface Specialist
5. Administrative Restructuring
6. Committee Assignments
7. Innovation Fund Report – MPAL iPad Loans
8. Position Requests – Hiring plan
9. New Innovation Fund proposals
10. Unretreat – International report
11. PTAC report – Review of Librarianship
Minutes Details
Attendees
John Wilkin, chair; Bill Mischo, vice-chair; John Wagstaff, secretary; Tim Cole, Mary Laskowski, Jennifer Teper. Visitors – Beth Namachchivaya, Sue Searing, Tom Teper; Recording – Kim Matherly
Minutes
1. 1:30-2:00 AULs
a. Organizational document
EC discussed the document with the AULs.
b. NSM Update – Sue
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections – they are waiting for the Visiting Archival Operations and Reference Specialist position to be hired. The search committee has begun meeting.
Archives – the renovation of 146 Library is coming along. It had been hoped to have it finished by fall semester, but this won’t now happen until winter break.
c. Search Update – Tom
Tom updated EC on the various searches.
2. Approve Minutes from June 9
Approved with a motion by Tim Cole, seconded by John Wagstaff.
3. Question Time
A personnel issue was discussed.
John thanked EC for their work on the AUL evaluations, which he found very helpful.
The Library has received $1.5 million from the Facilities Matching Funds Program. These funds are to be used for main and UGL renovations.
John Wilkin is working with Diane Harris from IPRH, Ron Bailey from African-American Studies and others from GSLIS to put together a Mellon proposal for a library publishing program. If we receive the grant, the Library will hire an AP position, Visiting Digital Publishing Specialist, to work on the grant. This opportunity comes from the Humanities without Walls program that Mellon funded.
4. Position Description Approvals
a. Web Developer and User Interface Specialist
Approved with changes.
b. E-Learning Specialist
Approved.
5. Administrative Restructuring
(AULs documentation about their respective areas of responsibility. Best way for units to report to AULs.)
EC discussed the document. This discussion will continue at the next EC meeting. EC will plan to discuss the document again in August, this time with the AULs. The document will be shared with library faculty at the September or October faculty meeting.
6. Committee Assignments – must assign EEOC for Office of Diversity deadline, July 3
John Wagstaff has agreed to chair the committee for the next academic year and his name will be put forward to the Office of Diversity. Committee Assignments will continue to be discussed at another meeting.
7. Innovation Fund Report – MPAL iPad Loans
Approved.
8. Position Requests – Hiring plan
Approved.
9. New Innovation Fund proposals
Three proposals were submitted. EC asked for further clarification on one proposal, the other two were approved for funding:
Building a Repository for Print Holdings – William Weathers
International Student Search Query Support with the Freebase API – Susan Avery, Jim Hahn
10. Unretreat – International report
EC feels this should wait until the new Mortenson director is hired.
11. PTAC report – Review of Librarianship
This was deferred to another meeting.
6/17/2014 – Approved Director, Mortenson Center job description