The fifth regular meeting of the 1998/1999 Faculty Senate

will be held on Tuesday, 26 January 1999, at 2:10 in the

Mendenhall Student Center Great Room. 

FULL AGENDA

I.    Call to Order

II.   Approval of Minutes

      8 December 1998

III.  Special Order of the Day

      A.    Roll Call

      B.    Announcements

      C.    Vice Chancellor's Report

      D.    Bob Thompson, Director of Planning and

            Institutional Research University's Long Range

            Enrollment Projections (attachment 1, not

            included here).

IV.   Unfinished Business

V.    Report of Committees

      A.    Committee on Committees, Mark Taggart

            Nominees for two delegates and 3 alternates

            to the Faculty Assembly Delegation

            (attachment 2).

      B.    Libraries Committee, Allan Rosenberg

            Joyner Library Faculty Loan Policy

            (attachment 3).

VI.         New Business

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Attachment  2.   

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES REPORT

Nominees for two delegates and three alternates to the

Faculty Assembly Delegation

Henry Ferrell, History

Brian Harris, Foreign Language and Literatures

Robert Morrison, Chemistry

Rita Reaves, Industry and Technology

Mark Taggart, Music

The two nominees receiving the most votes will be declared

Faculty Assembly Delegates. The next two nominees with

the highest number of votes will be declared Faculty

Assembly Alternates.  The remaining nominee will fill the

2001 Faculty Assembly Alternate's unexpired term.

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Attachment  3.   

LIBRARIES COMMITTEE REPORT

Report on the Joyner Library Faculty Loan Policy

The Joyner Library Administration has brought to the

Libraries Committee's attention, and the Committee has

approved, a new Joyner Library Faculty Loan Policy that

includes two recall dates for faculty and graduate students,

excluding the Summer. 

Last Fall, a concern was brought to the Libraries Committee

by faculty members in the Department of Physics regarding

the proposed change in the Joyner Library Loan Policy from

an "annual renewal" to an "end-of-semester" renewal.  The

annual renewal was being discontinued in favor of the

semester renewal because concerns brought to the attention

of Joyner Library staff and administration that an inequality

in availability of materials existed.  In our Committee

meeting, it was noted that "there was a feeling" faculty could

keep books and documents indefinitely and that material not

available on the shelf for browsing was not available for

research and study. 

The present approved policy changes the annual due date

for faculty renewal to a semi-annual due date.  This change

allows faculty to review held materials more frequently and

to make appropriate decisions as to renewal of those

materials. 

There has remained confusion regarding the Summer

sessions.  The Joyner Library administration and the

Libraries Committee have agreed that the present loan

policy which reads: "due dates fall near the end of the

current semester" will be changed to specifically exclude the

Summer sessions and therefore, reflect a need for faculty to

renew materials on a twice annual basis and not three times

a year.