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Special Collections Outreach Update

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This month, our highlights include preparations for a great exhibit in the Colonnade that will premiere in late  August.  Don’t miss “Books with Personality,” curated by Karen Witt!  Some of our top Tumblr posts from the past month feature items from this exhibit, so take a look and get a preview of what’s coming.

·         What’s the oldest item in Special Collections?

·         Benjamin Franklin.  Poor Richard, 1747

·         It’s a medical mystery – solved!

·         Girolamo Mercuriale. De arte gymnastica…

As always, stay tuned for our next update, or connect with us online: Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr

 

Concannon to Chair Federal Advisory Committee

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Marie Concannon has been elected Chair of Depository Library Council (DLC), the advisory committee to the Public Printer of the United States and the U. S. Superintendent of Documents.  The current Public Printer, Davita Vance-Cooks, was nominated by President Obama in May 2013 and confirmed by the Senate.  Concannon was appointed to Council by former U. S. Public Printer William Boarman in 2012.   She was recently elected Chair by fellow members of Council, and took office in June.

DLC's role is to advise the U. S. Government Printing Office (GPO) on matters of federal information policy and access in the nation's 1,200 depository libraries, including academic, state, public, law and special libraries.  DLC works with GPO to plan the annual meeting of Federal Depository Libraries in Washington as well as two additional virtual conferences in the Spring and Fall. 

As Council Chair, Concannon was recently invited as a VIP guest to the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) annual meeting in Texas, where she spoke at the Government Documents Special Interest Section Meeting and met with AALL's Director of Government Relations.

See Concannon's inaugural statement:  http://tinyurl.com/l7lfl9c
More information about Depository Library Council: http://tinyurl.com/o27wr95

 

Action and Information Items from Library Management Team 7/8/14

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INFORMATION ITEM: LMT discussed what will likely be lean budget years ahead.  The Library is running a significant deficit ending Fiscal Year 2014 (ending June 30).  Jim expects to have to cover this internally.  LMT is considering these actions/principals as they approach the future budgets: – No part of the budget can be held harmless or considered off limits. – All Library positions will have to be held open for a certain amount of time before filling them can be considered. (Some positions will have to not be filled.) – The Library should defer costs whenever possible.   Discussion ensued about further possible reductions in budgets, acknowledging that all cuts hurt at this point (due to prior cuts and/or reductions).

ACTION ITEMS: Centennial Banner designs. Jim asks LMT (division heads) to work with respective divisions to request/recommend color preferences (possibly more than one) for each specialty Library banner. Side note: The banners and all centennial celebration activities will be covered by unrestricted development funds.

ACTION ITEM: Reporting out about the June 2014 LMT retreat: LMT discussed the various ways it would like to report out and gain feedback from MU Libraries employees. Jim is scheduled to meet with MULAC on Wednesday, July 16 at 9 a.m.  He wants to report out at least the agenda and process of what LMT covered in their retreat and how LMT hopes/expects to answer MULAC’s requests.

TO DO: Jim and Mark Ellis to discuss creating a Qualtrics survey to send out to Library staff asking feedback on part of the LMT retreat discussion.

INFORMATION ITEM:  LMT began discussion of the revised Digitization Advisory Committee charge and guidelines as submitted for review by chair Anselm Huelsbergen. LMT will discuss further when Ann Riley can be present (or dialed in) because the Digital Services Unit (which the committee is charged to advise) is in her division.