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Staff Advisory Group Notes, 4/4/17

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Staff Advisory Group Notes

April 4th, 2pm

  • Guest Speaker: Laura Pieter – Outreach Coordinator, MU Career Center

    • Help all students – focus on those in transition, deciding, or in programs that do not have a specific career office or person for the department, major, or school

      • In transition – changing majors, rethinking area of study, etc.
      • Deciding – trying to “figure out” what they want to do and how to get there
      • Without specific office – Neither A&S nor HES have focused career offices, some individual programs have a career advisor or coordinator though
    • Help on a drop-in basis

      • 40+ student peer-advisors/paraprofessionals who undergo 100+ hours of training to work with other students on making career decisions
      • Help through resume/cover letter review, mock interviews, self-assessments
    • Many colleges have focused career services offices which are able to focus on that particular industry and help with recruitment and exposure through career fairs and other programming
    • MU Career Center does not do recruitment or host career fairs

      • Focus is on making student “employable”, not necessarily finding them employment
    • Top services:

      • Resume and cover letter review
      • Self-Assessment – particularly Strength Quest
      • Mock interviews
      • Workshops on online image, LinkedIn, etc.
    • Work with employment while a student

      • Part-time on and off campus, internships, etc.
      • Work Study based in Career Center
      • HireMizzouTigers.com – Job board with over 10,000 jobs a year ranging from full-time with experience to part-time while a student
    • Also offer in-depth career counseling by graduate counseling students by appointment throughout the semester
    • Do a lot of referral work, between area specific career centers, international center, etc.
    • Question: Interview space for students

      • Do have some interview spaces for students as do some of the college specific offices (for skype and such); need to call career center to arrange
    • Do maintain a reference library of career resources, available for use in the career center, many are only and linked to from the website;Craig Benson coordinates getting new resources
    • Ways to partner:

      • If you work with student groups, Career Center and do presentations, specific workshops, provide resources, etc.
      • Library already partnering by putting part-time student jobs on HireMizzouTigers.com

 

  • Division Reports:

    • HSL and Specialized Libraries: Deb Ward

      • Upcoming HSL advisory council meeting – planning on getting feedback, hearing the desires and wishes of the advisory council
      • Recently re-worked mission statement to align to libraries mission, vision, and values
      • Using a development gift to replace some furniture under stairs and at entrance: new couches, computer/study tables, new shelving
      • Looking at moving HSL ILL to HSL tech services space and opening up study area of the library further by removing a wall
      • Had several people travel to a data management conference
      • Columbia Missourian Library: Sandy Schiefer becoming full-time
      • Engineering Library: Judy Maseles retirement party on 5/15, email invitation forthcoming
      • Noel Kopriva moving to engineering at 50% during interim time before new Engineering Librarian can be hired

        • Question about filling Noel’s current role: situation is temporary, will look at ways to alleviate staffing issue’s.
    • ACTS: Kevin McFillen

      • Scan on demand button going into Merlin, standardizing and simplifying the process
      • UMLD: nearing the end of mold remediation, ~2 weeks remaining
      • Catalogue Management review duplicate titles out at U2
      • Physical Processing & Preservation working with Special Collections to evaluate microfilm
      • Updating division website
    • RAIS: Jeannette Pierce

      • Looking at hiring 50% government documents specialist to assist Marie Concannon with Sandy Schiefer moving to Missourian Library
      • Felicity Dykas and Freddy Martinez-Garcia both presented at ACRL
      • Marie Concannon working on state conference for those interested in preservation of state government information and making that information accessible

 

  • Directors Report: Anne Campion Riley

    • President Dr. Choi’s recent message: Dean’s Council told on Monday message would go out, not given specifics
    • Library has been modeling a variety of cuts for a while

      • Looking at program effectiveness, encouraged to make vertical cuts if necessary
    • Dean’s Council worried about Dr. Choi’s time line, seems aggressive
    • Focusing on strategic priorities
    • Please maintain on open mind, be flexible, remember no one means ill-will, tight budget situation likely in place for 3 years or so
    • Lots of other big university taking large hits as well, if cuts are strategic, can strengthen the institution in the long term
    • Friends of the Libraries luncheon this Saturday
    • Cindy Cotner been invited to serve on extension council, great for the libraries to be invited to the table
    • Library has published first annual report in quite a while, will be going out shortly, see Shannon Cary for a copy
    • Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee – awarded library $50,000 for new chairs in Information Commons
    • Question: looking for efficiencies across the system

      • Some are, Engineering for example working with Rolla to specialize research programs
      • Libraries always work to collaborate across the system, shared system acquisitions
    • Question: our spending depends on other college’s cuts

      • money is vanishing, limits planning time table
      • reserves have taken large hit, normally would provide cushion in these situations, have been down since 2008
      • Dr. Choi has discussed tuition increase
      • Shrinking student body is a challenge
      • Still a lower cost than peer institutions
      • Just not a lot of good information right now
    • Question: are we ok for this fiscal year?

      • As far as we know, unless something happens or changes

 

  • New Business:

    • Security Updates: Pat Jones

      • Emergency exits are all posted, may see new signs for those soon

        • Please tell security if there is an unmarked emergency exit
      • Entering tornado season

        • Watch: tornado is possible

          • North and West security desks turn on weather radios
          • Disaster prep kit is gotten out and prepared
        •        Warning
          • Officer will make announcement
          • Evacuate to safe area’s
          • Officer will sweep the building
      • Talking about training circulation staff in emergency procedures
      • Emergency phones, double as information phones

        • Ring straight to west security desk
        • Located in 3 East in stacks and on chair lift to 4 West (Special Collections)
        • New signs in process
    • MU Giving Day: Matt Gaunt

      • Campus had 3600 gifts: 3.8 million

        • Vet medicine got largest through estate gift
      • Library had no estate gifts: raised $115,000 through 118 donors

        • At least 23 of the 118 were library staff
        • Provost Stokes gave nice gift
      • Libraries 8th overall all, 9th in participation
    • Open Positions: Sheryl Cullina

      • Programmer in LTS: offer extended and accepted
      • Technical Services Librarian in ACTS: offer extended and accepted
      • Head of Instructional Services in RAIS: conducting phone interviews, on-campus interviews scheduled
      • Head of SCARaB: Posted, accepting applications through June 10th
      • Business Support Specialist II in ACTS: been reposted, accepting applications through April 14th

 

  • Upcoming Events:

    • Trainings: Sheryl Cullina

      • Campus wide – Diversity and Inclusion series – online

        • Diversity 101
      • State Historical Society Presentation – African-American Experience in Missouri
      • Staff Recognition Week May 22 – 26, schedule will be posted soon
      • Question about Active Threat training:

        • Available through MUPD, not required at this time
      • Library: Student Employee Appreciation Reception, April 13th, encourage students to attend

        • Write notes of thanks to students for a display, see Noah in 104
    • Library Events: Shannon Cary

      • National Library Week next week

        • April 11th, Library Ambassadors in Speakers Circle
        • Goodies at HSL as well
        • Social media campaign planned
      • Development Office is co-sponsoring the Unbound Book Festival on April 22nd

        • Booth with the Bronte manuscript
        • Kelli Hansen give presentation at 1pm on the manuscript

 

  • Closing Remarks: Noah Hartsfield

    • Will be conducting a Qualtrics survey next week, please complete and share thoughts