COMMITTEE: Faculty Senate Libraries Committee

MEETING DATE: February 18, 2009

PERSON PRESIDING: Tom Douglass

REGULAR MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: James Wirth, John Heilmann, Patrick Valentine, Melanie Sartore

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Jeff Coghill, Jan Lewis, Larry Boyer Hunt McKinnon, Margit Schmidt

 

Actions of Meeting

1) Motion to approve minutes with edited changes was seconded and approved.

 

2) Jeff provided a report from Laupus

• Give back 7% has been required, yet to determine how it will affect
• Library plans to cut back on book purchases
• No action taken

 

3) Review of meeting with the space planning committee

• Melanie, Tom and Stephen attended space planning committee

• Questions arose on book space needs
• Goal of having a 1.2 million volume automated storage and retrieval system
• 300,000-500,000 volumes in the library composed with special collections
• Tom stated that it will be a challenge to convince faculty that this is not a comparable library to Chapel Hill, Michigan, etc
• No action taken

 

4) Larry reported on the current state of the space planning project

• Getting lot of support for plan
• The library plans on completing the first phase, but the foundation down 30% and is underwater
• Still looking to see which changes can be incorporated
• Announced that 3/27 is Founders day and that the following activities are planned – 5:00 at the library will be a reception; 7:00 will have oral history presentation from 30 ECU first-generation grads
• No action taken

 

5)      Jan provided an update on LibQUAL survey

• 885 responses since Feb 9
• Goal is to receive 1,000 responses
• No action taken

 

Respectfully submitted,

John Heilmann