EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE

ACADEMIC, APPELLATE, AND SENATE COMMITTEE

ANNUAL REPORT

2005-2006 Academic Year

DUE: May 1, 2006

COMMITTEE: LIBRARIES

1. Membership (include ex-officio members). Salman Abdulali, Lillian Burke, Darryl Davis, Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker, James Wirth.

2. Meeting Dates (include members present*).
September 21, 2005 – Salman Abdulali, Lillian Burke, Darryl Davis, Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker, James Wirth, Catherine Rigsbee.

October 19, 2005 – Salman Abdulali, Darryl Davis, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker.

November 16, 2005 - Salman Abdulali, Lillian Burke, Darryl Davis, Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker, James Wirth.

January 18, 2006 – Salman Abdulali, (Jan Lewis for Darryl Davis), Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker, James Wirth.

February 15, 2006 – Salman Abdulali, Darryl Davis, Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker, James Wirth.

March 15, 2006 – no meeting - University Spring Break

April 19, 2006 - Salman Abdulali, Lillian Burke, Darryl Davis, Susan DelVecchio, Thomas Douglass, Michael Duffy, Elmer Poe, Dorothy Spencer, Marianna Walker.

4. Subcommittees established during the year (include progress and/or completion of work). N/A Accomplishments during the year, especially as addressed through committee goals. Please include recommendations made to any University agency other than the Faculty Senate that will be noted under #5.

· Library Committee became directly involved with the search for the New Director of Joyner Library. Marianna Walker, representing the committee on the ALS Search Committee, Spencer and Davis acting in an advisory capacity.

· Better understanding of library budgets and budget presentation to the Faculty Senate.

· Taken initial steps to be involved with the University Research Council.

· Better oversight of library operations.

5. Reports to the Faculty Senate (include dates and resolution numbers).

April 18, 2005 – Marianna Walker presented the University libraries budgets (ALS, Virtual Library, and Laupus Libraries) to the faculty senate for the 2005/2006 academic year.

6. Business carried over to next year (list in priority order).

• Solicit a member of the University Research Committee to be a standing member on the Libraries Committee.
• Need a representative from Faculty Senate to attend committee meetings.
• Also need a student representative to attend committee meetings.

7. Evaluation of the committee (include anything that hindered or assisted the

committee's work during the year).

A. Charge: The committee is more involved this year in understanding the libraries’ status and has functioned as a faculty senate committee in approval of new library policies, in catalog revisions, and in the search for a new director of ALS/Joyner library.

B. Personnel: The committee recommends that having a representative from the University Research Committee to serve as a member on the libraries committee would be helpful in establishing the libraries commitment and involvement with the research mission on campus. Also, there was no representative of the faculty senate on the committee last year. The member who was originally appointed (Cyrus Whaley) left the university at the beginning of the academic year (2005-06).

C. Attendance: Attendance has been excellent this year from the faculty and ex-officio members, which includes both library directors.

D. Responsibilities: Committee members have had a better sense of member role

and responsibilities as compared to last year.

E. Activities: The library directors (Spencer and Davis) were charged each month to provide a short summary of activities, problems, needs, etc. to the committee. This has assisted the committee to decide appropriate goals and issues for committee work. The presentation of the combined libraries budgets to the commmitee prior to the faculty senate presentation assisted the members in understanding the budget, which is improved in comparison to last year. Having faculty senaste representation on the Search Committee for the Director of ALS has also been helpful and has enhanced the Libraries Committee involvement with the entire library and university community.

8. Suggestion(s) to the Chair of the Faculty and/or Faculty Senate for improving the effectiveness of the committee.

a. Add a member to the committee to represent the University Research Committee.

b. Add a member to the committee to represent the faculty senate.

9. Does the Committee’s organizational meeting next year need to be earlier than the date set this year? No

Signed: Chairperson, Marianna Walker

Secretary, Thomas Douglass