Present: Shannon Cary, Sheryl Cullina, Michael Holland, Corrie Hutchinson, Pat Jones, Kathy Peters, Jeannette Pierce, Ann Riley, Ernest Shaw, Deb Ward
Request from Art Museum Regarding Exhibit Space
INFORMATION: Jeannette stated the Exhibits Committee had considered a proposal from the MU Art Museum about using exhibit space in the library for semi-permanent art exhibits. The Committee stated that there was not room in the colonnade to house these exhibits because the existing cases are in high demand. LMT agreed with the Committee and may possibly investigate other possible exhibit space for art installations in the future.
Budget Review
INFORMATION: Kathy shared the budget assumptions and models for FY16 through FY20 with LMT. Ann asked members to point out any problem areas they see in the budget before it is presented to the Provost.
Policy Review: #1 Policy on Policies
INFORMATION: Mike presented a revised version of the Policy on Policies to LMT. He stated that the only substantive change was removing Library Assembly as a policy review body and replacing with the library staff as a whole.
ACTION: Mike will make clarifying revisions to policy and then Sheryl will send to staff for comment.
Staff Advisory Group
INFORMATION: Sheryl told LMT that there were only two employees who volunteered to be officers for the Staff Advisory Group. Noah has agreed to be chair and Kevin McFillen will be vice-chair. She suggested that the Fiscal Assistant be the recorder for meetings.
ACTION: Sheryl will inform the staff of the new officers.
Library Committee Meeting Report
INFORMATION: Ann gave a brief report on the last Library Committee meeting.
- The committee wanted to know how they could advocate for holding the library budget harmless. They decided to write a letter to the provost and also ask departments to do the same. They are particularly interested in contacting directors of graduate studies to get graduate students involved.
- They also discussed open access policy and the committee is supposed to be looking at the open access LibGuide.
MERLIN Transition
INFORMATION: Ann gave a brief update on a recent meeting of the UM library directors about the MERLIN transition.
- A transition task force was formed.
- They toured UMSL’s offsite storage site and discussed offsite storage issues at each campus.
ACTION: Corrie will ask Kevin McFillin for an estimate of how much space in UMLD1 is being used by each campus.
Friends of the Libraries Meeting Update
INFORMATION: Ann gave a brief overview of the Friends of the Libraries meeting that was held on November 5. June DeWeese is serving as the current chair of the Friends, and she presided over the meeting.
- The rules were recently changed so that all library donors who give $100 or more automatically become Friends. There are currently about 300 members.
- They will be holding a fundraiser on February 26, 2017 at Jesse Hall. It’s a Country Gold concert featuring classic country music. They expect to make around $30,000 from the event.
- The Friends have recommitted to matching Adopt-a-Book funds up to $2,500.
Security and Building Announcements
INFORMATION: Pat announced the following closings during Thanksgiving Week:
- room 202 will be closed for installation of electrical blinds;
- room 114 will be closed for painting of the registers; and
- the Bookmark Café will be closed for remodeling.