May 8, 2019 Meeting of Life Sciences

Time and Location of Meeting

May 8, 201910:30 am - 12:00 pm 206 Funk Library

Agenda Details

Agenda

  1. Approval of 4/10 minutes (taken by Susan) 
  2. Division business
    1. Life Sciences Division Coordinator
    2. CDC representative
    3. Other committee/division representative appointments?
  3. Collections discussion
    1. SPR 2.0 titles in Funk ACES
  4. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
  5. Round Table
  6. Adjourn

Minutes Details

Minutes

  1. Approval of 4/10 minutes (taken by Susan)
    1. Approved with very minor edits

  2. Division business
    1. Melody will be retiring June 30, 2019
      1. LSD librarians will begin drafting a position description very soon to fill her position ASAP
      2. Will need to draft an emerita application for Melody
    2. Life Sciences Division Coordinator
      1. Kelli will be the next division coordinator
    3. CDC representative
      1. Sarah will be the division rep
    4. Other committee/division representative appointments?
      1. Recommended to Jen-chien to invite new Public Services & Engagement Librarian to be on Assessment Committee
      2. Susan and Kelli invited to be on Staff Development & Training, will decide who
      3. Need to fill Melody’s spot on the Reference Management Team
  1. Collections discussion
    1. SPR 2.0 titles in Funk ACES
      1. Mary had a staff person do a thorough check for online access to the list of items sent to the division as candidates for ingestion
      2. Journal of Extension and Journal of Environmental Horticulture need to be investigated for long-term online access
      3. Agricultural statistics and Statistical abstract of the United States needs to be investigated regarding which copy should be retained in print (Gov Docs vs. Funk ACES) and whether some of it is actually microfiche
  1. Committee assignments and reports – AC, CDC, others
    1. Reference Management Team (Melody) is restructuring the GA training for the fall: 1 day of general overview (HR, emergencies, etc.), 1 day of iSchool stuff and tech services, and 1 day of reference and circulation training
    2. CDC (Kelli) – Internet Archive is funded for one more year; no timeline for Alma implementation; items for desiderata list should be sent to Kelli immediately; no transfers to Oak Street for the time being until Main building project plans solidify
    3. Assessment (Erin, Peg, Susan) – new grant application will likely be available over the summer;
    4. ITHAKA (Kelli) – faculty survey results will be presented at faculty meeting
    5. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment (Kelli) – looking for examples of instruction assessment to use to create a generic rubric to collect data
    6. LCAP (Susan) – have two representatives on the campus-level AP group; for the first time in history, the campus AP Development Fund was spent out before the end of the FY.  This fund provides supplementary funding for APs to attend conferences, workshops, training, etc.
  1. Round Table
    1. Should request an “Events” tab be added to Funk ACES Desk Tracker account to record things like panel presentation
    2. INHS Publications Committee (Susan) – working to convert bulletin of the INHS to online only open access journal, using Library’s open journal system, there will be an article processing charge
    3. New office space project in Funk still waiting for F&S kick-off meeting
  2. Adjourn