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Action and Informational Items Library Management Team – 8/9/11

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LMT members in attendance:  Jim Cogswell, Ann Riley, Deb Ward, Mike Holland

Support: Mark Ellis

Informational Item:  LMT discussed the Email sent to MU Library employees regarding salary increases.

Informational Item:  LMT recommended up to 2% increases for returning students based in merit at the discretion of the student supervisor.

Informational Item:  Jim C. will present LMT’s Staffing Strategy to MU Libraries employees during the All-Staff Meeting taking place 8/18/11, 2-3:30 pm, in Ellis Auditorium.

Informational Item:  Along with the staffing strategy, LMT discussed topics related to that subject such as:

  • Career Step-down strategies – How to help employees who are considering retirement ease into the transition:
    • Offering reduced FTE.
    • Assuring employees that their position will not be eliminated as a result of retirement.
    • Balancing between openly helping employees make retirement decisions while not offending them or making them feel rushed or unwelcomed to stay.
    • Enlisting potential retirees to train/orient replacement staff and to benefit from their valuable experience.
    • “Receding services” – some staff members have said that, as MU Libraries respond to demands for new services, some lower priority functions will need to be reduced or eliminated.
      • What are these receding service functions?
        • Print acquisitions
        • Binding
  • Changing the nature of certain services:
    • Shift from print Reserves to e-reserves.
    • Patron photocopying changing to personal digitization.
      • Microfilm/fiche digitization rather than print.
      • Personal library tours reduced.
      • Reference desk staffing (shared more by GLA’s, other students,).
      • Expanded access (beyond books and journals).
        • Digital nature of library resources.
  • We need to shift our capacities to other functions rather than reduce our workforce
    • Staffing Plans should reflect meaningful input from staff.
    • LMT to review notes of 7/21 All Staff Forum and Mark will send out to all staff.

LMT will meet on August 16 to review Staffing Strategy and All Staff Meeting material.

One comment on “Action and Informational Items Library Management Team – 8/9/11”

  1. The challenge for many of us is that while print acquisitions may be “receding” in some areas, it is far, VERY far, from disappearing or even becoming just a minor function. For reference works and most serials, print has indeed receded, but the demand for print monographs and long-form reading remains very much in place.

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