Present: Ellen Blair, Shannon Cary, Sheryl Cullina, Michael Holland, Corrie Hutchinson, Pat Jones, Jeannette Pierce, Ann Riley, Ernest Shaw, Deb Ward
Discovery Tool Recommendation
Jeannette summarized the work of the Discovery Tools Review Team.
ACTION: LMT approved the Discovery Tools Review Team’s recommendation that the Libraries subscribe to EBSCO Discovery Services (EDS) to replace Summon as its discovery tool.
ACTION: LMT decided that the current team should manage the implementation of the new tool for the fall semester.
ACTION: A new group was appointed to look at the link resolver that is available through EDS. The suggested members are Corrie Hutchinson, Diane Johnson, Rhonda Whithaus, Dave Walsh and Ernest Shaw.
Committee Membership
LMT discussed this year’s process for appointing library committees.
ACTION: Sheryl will send out a general call for membership. LMT will appoint the members.
ACTION: LMT reconstituted the Faculty Lecture Series Committee and decided that recording equipment would remain in room 114A except when it is being used elsewhere.
ACTION: LMT eliminated the Space Planning committee from the current list of committees since it became the Long Range Planning Committee. LMT also eliminated the Preservation Committee, but may reconstitute the committee if a preservation librarian position is created.
ACTION: LMT established a Scholarly Communications Committee. Deb Ward and Jeannette Pierce will work on a draft charge for LMT to discuss at a future meeting.
Collections Steering Committee (CSC) Report
The CSC met last week and approved a rough budget.
ACTION: Decided to stop all approval in DDA for next year, to cut $500,000 from Wiley and other serial packages, cut around $50,000 titles identified as high cost/low use, cancel EBSCO e-book package, cancel 360 Counter and cancel Libraries’ CLIR membership.
ACTION: All subject funds will take a 20% cut. If DDA and approval cuts are greater than 20% in a specific fund, the fund will receive additional money that can be used for firm only orders.
Planning Retreat 2
ACTION: LMT will hold a second retreat on June 8 from 9 am to 3 pm.
Update on Projects from First Retreat
ACTION: Small group has been formed to look at food and drink policy. They will meet next week.
ACTION: Pat is going to have Environmental Health and Safety look at rooms 303, 304 and 406 because there is concern about humidity levels in these rooms.
Update on Searches
INFORMATION:
- Human resources is classifying the fiscal officer position. It has to go through campus budget office.
- Have hired SOS temp to fill fiscal assistant position. Will fill position permanently after fiscal officer position is filled.
- Library Information Specialist position in journalism has been posted. It’s 30 hours instead of 40.
- Interviews are being scheduled for the Library Information Specialist position in circulation/reserves.
- Interviews are being scheduled for Library Information Specialist in cataloging
- Waiting for provost approval for a one-year temporary librarian position to fill the instruction librarian position.
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Kevin McMillan has started as the UMLD supervisor.
Miscellaneous Discussion
INFORMATION: It has been recommended the Libraries continue the 3D printing service that is currently running in Ellis Library. LTS student workers will help run the service. The students who were currently running the service with a grant will gift us the equipment, leftover material and around $2,000 of leftover money. The Libraries will continue to charge, which should cover materials and some machine depreciation.