Present: Shannon Cary, Corrie Hutchinson, Kathy Peters, Jeannette Pierce, Ann Riley, Ernest Shaw, Deb Ward
Planning for January All-Staff Meeting
INFORMATION: LMT members began planning the agenda for the all-staff meeting that will be held on Thursday, January 12 at 2 p.m. in Ellis Auditorium.
ACTION: Ann will send out draft agenda to LMT members.
Friends of the Libraries Borrower Card
INFORMATION: Jeannette introduced a change of procedure for Circulation and Advancement that would require users to become a Friend of the Libraries in order to obtain a borrower card.
ACTION: Deb will talk to branch heads to ask their opinions about issuing Friends memberships/borrowers cards at the branches.
ACTION: Jeannette will continue to work with Freddy on how to implement this new procedure.
Budget Review
INFORMATION: The Libraries’ campus budget meeting is on December 16. Kathy shared the updated budget assumptions and notes for FY17 to FY20.
ACTION: There will be an LMT meeting to focus only on the budget on Dec. 13
ACTION: Corrie will find out total number of MU holdings in UMLD for insurance purposes.
Prioritization of Positions
INFORMATION: Ann stated that the Libraries must submit a list of open positions to campus administration. She asked LMT members to help her come up with a list of open positions that will be prioritized and a list of desired positions.
ACTION: Kathy will work with Sheryl to create a complete list of the open positions from the last two years. LMT will be asked to prioritize these positions.
Email Discussion
INFORMATION: Ernest asked LMT to confer on a quick matter. One library employee is using more than his/her allotted email storage space. It costs $12 a month to pay for the extra storage and requires approval of a director.
ACTION ITEM: LMT agreed to pay for the additional email storage because of the nature of the employee’s job duties.
ACTION ITEM: Kathy and Ernest will work on an email to send out to all staff reminding them to clean up their email files and including the records management guideline for email storage.