Next Meeting: Tuesday 5/23/17 2:00-3:30pm Ellis 159
Attendees: Ann Riley, Deb Ward, Corrie Hutchinson, Sheryl Cullina, Kathy Peters, Jeannette Pierce, Pat Jones, Shannon Cary, Tom Barnes, Anselm Huelsbergen, Ernest Shaw
Agenda Items:
Budget: Proposal and narrative were submitted on 5/3, following the official timeline. Updates and refinement will continue until 5/26.
-System announcement on 6/3/17 will determine if any additional funding will be directed at the libraries, particularly for Shared Resources or Collections.
LMT Retreat: postponed until 6/13, to allow for final budgets announcements to occur.
Searches: Head of Instructional Services: in process. Several candidates were interviewed
-Engineering Librarian: Accepting applications, Search Committee is forming.
-Head of SCARaB: Accepting applications, Search Committee is forming.
Name Tags: Logos are approved, lists are compiled, final costs and arrangements are in process.
Signs: Updates for this project were provided.
Phones: Audit is almost complete, if new phones or permissions need to be added, or if existing phones are randomly shut off, contact Admin.
-Many new improvements and features, and a much lower per-line cost, with the new phones.
-Schedule for the 7/25 cut-over, as well as a more detailed description of the new features, will be distributed closer to the date.
HSL furniture: New furniture is on order, expected to be delivered and installed in late May.
Furniture for Information Commons: New furniture is on order, will arrive in Columbia in late June, to be installed in Summer 2017.
HSL 2nd floor renovation: Funding and plans have been approved, but not yet scheduled.
Lowry Mall steam tunnel: Work to begin in late May, with some disruption of some areas of the lower floors of Ellis. Plans to accommodate those areas are being implemented.
Security cameras and panic buttons: Student Enhancement fee funded panic buttons are scheduled to be in place at all the libraries circulation desks, and cameras installed around the exterior of Ellis by the end of September (possibly earlier at the branch library locations).
Key card system update: To begin in the fall, to upgrade to chip readers.