IUPUI Library Faculty
Meeting Minutes
February 18, 1998

The meeting was called to order at 2:15 p.m. with Chris Long presiding.

Attending: Barclay, A.; Browning, M.; Eckerman, N.; Fore, J.; Gall, C.; Goodwin, V.; Harmon, J.; Hook, S.; Johnting, W.; Kaneshiro, K.; London, S.; Long, C.; McDonald, D.; Moshfegh, M.; Staum-Kuniej, S.; Stocker, R.

Minutes of the Sept. 17, 1997 and November 19, 1997 meetings were approved.

Announcements

Chris Long submitted a grant proposal for INULA support of a Technostress workshop to be co-sponsored with ASIS. The workshop is set for March 27, 1998 from 9:00-1:00. The workshop will cover both how librarians handle technostress and how they help patrons handle technostress.

Director's Reports

Dental Library: The School is working on Fund Development. The plans for the expansion of the school have been developed and they do include a new library. Problem based learning has just increased the need for paper materials.

University Libraries: No report.

Law Library: The library just received a $50,000 grant for monographs. The preparation for Horizon continues. The groundbreaking for the new building should be in the winter of 1998.

Medical Library: Fran and Sue are working on some integration of the library and problem based learning course work.

Committee Reports

IULFC: (Nancy Eckerman reporting)
Faculty Board of Review will elect a chair yearly. The Mid-tenure review process has been sent to faculty standards for a review and recommendations for improvement. The new personnel officer is a PA position rather than a librarian position. A committee is investigating whether having a non-librarian in the role of Personnel Officer will have a significant impact on the Promotion and Tenure process. In her ex officio capacity, Marilyn Shaver brought to the table a mentoring and mediation function. Librarians Day is May 8 in Kokomo. P&T Week is Oct 5-9.

Nominating Committee: (Chris Long reporting for Richard Humphrey) Now soliciting nominations for next year.

Old Business

Faculty Review and Enhancement

The Faculty Standards Committee working on Faculty Review and Enhancement proposed a campus wide document outlining principles with guidelines developed at the campus level. This proposal received mixed reactions from the campuses. Thus, the current thought is that each campus will develop its own principles and guidelines.

With Sara Hook as the Chair of the committee, faculty and librarians alike are well represented. The IUPUI committee will take feedback from the first draft and create a second draft. This revised document might be on the Faculty Counil agenda at the April meeting. The Plan A concept (a faculty member or librarian wishing to change career focus) is going to be bifurcated to a separate document. Faculty Review and Enhancement will be the only focus of the revised document. The addition of librarian language, as opposed to the creation of a separate document, is viewed as a good thing.

The Faculty Standards Committee will work on developing guidelines for IUPUI librarians. Randi Stocker asked for guidance on the development of those guidelines. Specifically, how should they deal with the mandate for an elected review committee? Should the professional schools be reveiwed by a school elected committee or a librarian elected committee? Should there be a choice of committee? Sara pointed out that in the studies a very small percentage of faculty nationwide are so chronically unproductive category that they require a post tenure review. In her view, this process will be invoked infrequently, but the process needs to be in place nonetheless. The committee serves an evaluative or mentoring role which is triggered by the actions of an administrator. Some the other difficult questions for many schools will focus around mission statements, the definition of chronically unproductive, the details of an annual review process. The Faculty Standards committee will pursue the guidelines.

Respectfully submitted,
Minde Browning, Secretary