September 23, 2015 Meeting of Library Faculty Meeting

1.         Call to Order
 
2.         Standing Items:

2.1       Adoption of the agenda–John Wilkin
2.2       Approval of the minutes of the meeting of June 23, 2015–John Wilkin
available at:  https://uofi.box.com/s/kc7pe2aff9n1shvf3m32fx1ntx7ghqai2.3       Introductions–John Wikin
2.4       Report of the University Librarian (15 minutes–John Wilkin)
2.5       Executive Committee Report and Discussion (15 <minutes–Kirstin Dougan)

3.         Discussion Topics
3.1       Federal funding agencies’ new policies on public access to articles and data Heidi Imker (15 minutes)

3.2       October Launch of Illinois Research Connections–Rebecca Bryant (15 minutes)

4.         Lightning Round
4.1       Changes in the reference services committee structure (Lynne Rudasill and JoAnn Jacoby)

5.         New Business

6.         Announcements

7.         Adjournment

1.         Call to Order

 

2.         Standing Items:

 

2.1       Adoption of the agenda–John Wilkin

 

2.2       Minutes of the previous meeting.  Upon a motion by John Wilkin, the minutes of the meeting of June 23, 2015 were approved without amendment.

 

2.3       Introductions. Dean Wilkin introduced:

George Gottschalk – Acquisitions Operations Specialist.

Aaron McCollough– Head of Scholarly Communications

Suzanne Chapman – User Experience Librarian

Celestina Savonius-Wroth – Head of History, Philosophy, Newspaper Library

 

2.4       Report of the University Librarian

 

Background checks are expected to begin October 5. This is something that is happening at all of our peer institutions. Students hired by the Library will not get background checks. We will have more discussion as we go forward.

 

Budget – Given the current stalemate in Springfield, there was not much that could be said about the budget. Wilkin expressed gratitude for everyone’s participation in the Library update meeting that was held in room 106. Reminder, things are not as smooth sailing around campus as we are feeling. We still have a freeze on changes to salaries. We cannot make equity-based adjustments. We will be rolling out the FY17 budget process soon. Strategic Planning is aligning nicely with the Budget process. Preliminary draft from Strategic planning has gone forward.

 

Grants – We are working on the metadata for a grant coming to the State Library. We are also participating with GSLIS in a digital humanities grant being funded by the IMLS. Congratulations to Harriett Green for her work on this. There will be a press release soon for a $1M Mellon Grant awarded in collaboration with African American Studies, IPRH, GSLIS, and Scholarly Communications and Publishing.

 

UIUC College of Medicine – A joint UIC-UIUC task force will soon be appointed regarding support for the respective campus medical colleges.

 

2.5       Executive Committee Report and Discussion

Kirstin Dougan provided brief background on the Executive Committee (EC) and pointed out that all documents related to EC matters  are on their website which can be found via the Library’s website. The direct link is: http://www.library.illinois.edu/export/committee/exec/charge.html

 

 

3.         Discussion Topics

 

3.1       Federal funding agencies’ new policies on public access to articles and data see PowerPoint at http://www.library.illinois.edu/committee/faculty_meeting/.

 

Heidi Imker and Dan Tracy provided an overview of the purpose of the Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) 2013 memo which provides much of the direction of efforts related to research data management.  Directed to federal agencies with over $100M in annual funding, the memo’s purpose is to maximize impact and accountability of federal research investment.

 

The directive requires deposit either the final manuscript submitted by the author or the pdf from the journal. All generally have a 12 month embargo from date of publication. Be careful of what you sign in your publisher agreements. Check out the website: DMPTool.org

 

Questions and discussion focused on issues regarding obtaining compliance of  researchers to deposit their data.

 

 

4.         Lightning Round

4.1       Changes in the reference services committee structure see PowerPoint at http://www.library.illinois.edu/committee/faculty_meeting/.

 

Lynne Rudasill presented information on the final report of the Reference Services Committee. A team has been assigned to start formulating action items.

 

4.2       October Launch of Illinois Research Connections.  See PowerPoint at http://www.library.illinois.edu/committee/faculty_meeting/.

 

Rebecca Bryant provided an update on a product provided by Elsevier – “Pure” which pulls data from the Scopus publications index to support creation of research profiles of campus faculty.

 

5.         New Business

 

None.

 

6.         Announcements

 

Dan Tracy announced that the deadline for proposals for the Library Research Showcase is Friday, September 25.

 

Beth Woodard announced that the deadline for nominations for the Civil Service Staff Awards is Friday, September 25.

 

Clara Chu reminded everyone that the Mortenson Center is sponsoring A Dialogue with Marta Terry González on Cuban Libraries, moderated by Clara M. Chu, Montenson Center Director and Mortenson Distinguished Professor, and Antonio Sotomayor, Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, taking place at the International and Area Studies Library (321 Main Library) on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, 11 am-noon.

 

Marta Terry González may also be seen at the following venues:

 

Thursday, October 15, 4 pm

UIUC George A. Miller Visiting Professor and CAS/MillerComm Lecturer “Libraries and Literary Culture: An Inside View of Cuba’s Information Revolution”

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

600 South Gregory, Urbana

 

Friday, October 16, 131 LIS Building, 11am-noon – History Salon.

TITLE: A Few Stories from Cuban Library History, Told by a Protagonist

 

7.         Adjournment