ACTION ITEM: Late night hours the week before finals – Pat Jones recommends staying open the week before finals as well as the week of finals.

• Exams and papers are often due the week before finals.
• The statistics show that students are using the extended hours more previous years.
• LMT agrees and will support making this possible beginning Fall Semester 2015.
•  Access Services will consider if they would like to stay open later, as well.

INFORMATION ITEM: LMT Retreat update – Jim will meet with the Director of the Management Training Institute Alan St. John on Friday (5/29) to discuss a visioning exercise at the beginning of the LMT retreat. 

• MULAC executive board will be invited to the LMT on June 9^th to discuss the retreat.  
• MULAC plans to send LMT a letter suggesting ways to proceed if the Library fee passes or does not pass (which is also  the main agenda item for the retreat). 

INFORMATION ITEM:  LMT will review the various Library committees at a meeting that will take place in July.  LMT will be looking for Sheryl Cullina to provide recommended slate of members. Consideration will be given to a specified LMT liaison for each committee. Attention will be given to creating a balance of membership. It is recognized that these committees:

• Take on important tasks.
• Create valuable experiences for employees.

INFORMATION ITEM: Announcements:

• Jeannette Pierce – A candidate for User Engagement Librarian is on campus today. Another candidate will be here on Friday (5/29/15).
• Jeannette Pierce – The Engineering Library is temporarily losing some of their group study rooms that are being used by the Apple Lab while renovations on Lafferre Hall are being completed.  The renovations are estimated to take two years. 
• Deb Ward – HSL is pleased to announce an offer is out to one of the two candidates for Health Sciences Information Services Librarian. They hope to hear back soon.
• Jim C asks LMT to send summer vacation plans to Mark Ellis so that meetings and Acting Director designations can be coordinated. 

Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries

Monday -Tuesday, June 1^st – 2^nd   
Jim Cogswell will attend various meetings at the MOBIUS Conference, Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, MO

Tuesday, June 2^nd   
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. –Luncheon for Emeriti Faculty, Reynolds Alumni Center

Thursday, June 4^th  
Jim will attend a UM Library Directors retreat at the MU Law Library, Columbia, MO

Notable meetings from the calendar of Jim Cogswell, Director of MU Libraries

Tuesday, May 26^th  
11:00 a.m. – User Engagement Librarian Candidate Grace Atkins presentation and open meeting, Ellis Library.

Thursday, May 29th
11:00 a.m. – User Engagement Librarian Candidate Michayla Sullivan presentation and open meeting, Ellis Library.

INFORMATION ITEM: LMT discussed the upcoming conference entitled “Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age” and considered how many attendees from MU Libraries should go and who might benefit from attending the most. They put together an initial slate of individuals to ask as well as possible alternates. It is hoped that the attendees will bring back information, ideas and material to share with the rest of the Library personnel. Here is a link for more information about the conference.  http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/rethinkit/ 

INFORMATION ITEM: Jim Cogswell spoke to Gary Ward about the ongoing Library Space issues. Gary said any consideration for the addition to the original UMLD building would start with a Project Request Form  and recommended that Jim send one to him for discussion at central University Administration. Jim will talk to Ellen about estimated costs and submit.

INFORMATION ITEM:  At the 3 day LMT retreat scheduled for June 10-12^th, LMT will go through a facilitated visioning exercise and then discuss in more detail:

• How to implement projects if the student fee passes.
• What to do if the fee does not pass.
  • Cuts will need to be as strategic as our expansions.

LMT will reserve time at an upcoming LMT meeting to discuss the distribution of pay increases. They hope to specifically look at:

• Ways to address classified staff salary compression.
  • When, over time, the pay of strong-performing employees is not very different from new employees due to cycles of minimum pay-range increases and the limited ability to give ongoing meritorious raises due to budget constraints.
• The most extreme discrepancies when comparing the MU Librarian and Archivist salaries to the ARL Median salaries.