{"id":8813,"date":"2015-05-15T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2015-05-15T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:22:13","slug":"info-and-action-items-from-library-management-team-5815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2015\/05\/15\/info-and-action-items-from-library-management-team-5815\/","title":{"rendered":"Information and Action Items from Library Management Team 5\/8\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tINFORMATION ITEM: Ellen Blair joined LMT to discuss the FY2016 Budget Situation.&nbsp; LMT resolved to build in a 2% budget pool into next year&rsquo;s budget even though portions of the budget (collections and E&amp;E) are running deficits.&nbsp; This was deemed important because:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tIt would improve the morale of library staff members (who have been over-worked with little to no increases for the past five years).\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAnother year of mandatory increases of the salaries at class minimums will worsen salary compression if they don&rsquo;t coincide with meritorious increases.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tThe Libraries continue to lose valuable personnel to more competitive salaries.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tINFORMATION ITEM: The GPC Forum took place Monday, May 4<sup>th<\/sup> at 6 p.m. in Leadership Auditorium.&nbsp; The attendance was mainly the MU Graduate leadership and Library representatives, but it was good meeting with a lot of great questions. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tINFORMATION ITEM: Jim will present the MU Libraries Student Library Fee Proposal at the Undergraduate Deans Meeting convened by Vice Provost Jim Spain. The meeting will take place Monday, May 11<sup>th<\/sup> at 3 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tINFORMATION ITEM: LMT Talked about strategies to get information about the pending journal cuts out to the Faculty. Jeannette reported that an email was drafted for the selectors to send to their department Liaisons.&nbsp; Other communication methods discussed by LMT included:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAn FAQ on the Library website. &nbsp;\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJim would like to send something to Provost Garnett Stokes.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCreating a timeline for faculty.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommunicating with Library Committee<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tInvestigating how faculty are selected\/appointed to the committee and try to educate members early in their term.\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tAsk Provost\/Chancellor&rsquo;s office if committee description\/charge can include more about communication and education on collection issues.\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tLMT also discussed how even if immediate funding improves (with the passage of a student fee or an allocation of strategic funds from MUSOP), the Collection Steering Committee would like to create a more systematic and strategic way to talk about collections and possible cuts to the acquisitions so that we are not always having to be reactive to the budget situation.&nbsp; The Libraries need to be reviewing usage and adjusting subscriptions at all times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tINFORMATION ITEM: LMT discussed the official establishment of a social media team. Jeannette worked with the current members of the task force and wrote a draft charge. LMT discussed suggested slate of the first members of the committee. Shannon will serve as ex officio, due to her role of making sure all Library messaging is consistent with MU guidelines (branding and FERPA) and aligned with MU Libraries themes and style.&nbsp; After reviewing charge, LMT will ask Sheryl Cullina to put out an open call for members. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INFORMATION ITEM: Ellen Blair joined LMT to discuss the FY2016 Budget Situation.&nbsp; LMT resolved to build in a 2% budget pool into next year&rsquo;s budget even though portions of the budget (collections and E&amp;E) are running deficits.&nbsp; This was deemed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2015\/05\/15\/info-and-action-items-from-library-management-team-5815\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Information and Action Items from Library Management Team 5\/8\/15<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-management-team"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 19:14:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8819,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}