IUPUI Library Faculty
Meeting Minutes
29 November 2000, Ruth Lilly Medical
Library (318)
Speaker
Attending: Jim Baldwin, Fran Brahmi,
Brenda Burk, Nancy Eckerman, Julie Fore, Carole Gall, Randall Halverson,
Jennifer Hehman, Richard Humphrey, Polly Boruff-Jones, Chris Long, Pat
McWilliams, Mary Stanley, Sonja Staum-Kuniej
Presiding: Brenda Burk (Chair)
Recording: Randall Halverson
(Secretary)
Announcements
Fore
announced that Portal, a new journal for librarianship has been launched. It
will have one-tenth the subscription cost of the Journal of Academic Libraries.(See
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/pla/free_issue/1.1st.clair.html)
Approval
of Minutes
2.
Indiana University Library Faculty Council (IULFC) Report -- Promotion and
Tenure Committee
3.
IUPUI Library Faculty Nominating Committee
Has
met to go over committee assignments. Due to the departure of Allan Barclay,
Brenda and the committee are seeking a new IULFC representative. Existing IULFC representative Wendell
Johnting will be the IULFC secretary for next year.
According
to a member, the Indiana University Academic Handbook is out-of-date and should
be updated to reflect unit guidelines followed in practice.
[The
“Red Book” (page 14) states that any librarian may petition the Librarians
Faculty Review Board for review of his/her case.]
[However,
in a presentation at Librarian’s Day 2000, members of the IULFC Faculty Review
Board noted that “faculty policy statements on each campus currently allow
librarians to bring grievances to either campus boards or to the All-Librarians
Review Board. (The Bloomington
Library Faculty Council had previously proposed to disband the All-University
Librarians Review Board.)]*
[According
to page 18 of the Red Book, a revision to the grievance procedures can be
initiated by a written proposal to the members of the Librarians Faculty Review
Board.] IULFC has asked us to
bring a proposal to change this, but IUPUI Library Faculty can’t initiate
something like this.
Baldwin
referred to the “three nesting faculty handbooks”. He said that the current
need is to get these in agreement. We have discussed this for several years; we
need to resolve how this matter can be taken to the Library Faculty Review
Board for action to be initiated.
In
another matter, Eckerman mentioned a proposal by the faculty council that
dossiers not go off campus. It is not clear if this would apply to librarians;
if so, Dean Thorin as well as campus-wide P&T committees would have to come
to IUPUI to read dossiers.
Directors’
Reports
There
is a site visit on December 1; the library has entered a bid to be the Greater
Midwest Regional Library repository (budget of 5.5 million). Deb Kellenburger
is a new visiting librarian, who holds an RN degree. She has an interest in public
health, and has set up a listserv on that topic.
Law
Library (Humphrey and Long for Bailey):Permission has been obtained to
advertise for bids by professional library movers for the move to the new
building in the spring.
University
Library (Stanley for David Lewis):
Old
Business
New
Business
Randall Halverson, Secretary
*Nancy L. Eckerman
(2000). In IULFC Faculty Review Board
Librarians’ Day Report [Online].
Available : http://www.indiana.edu/~iulfc/1999-2000/committees/facrevboardrprt.html
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modified: 18 April 2001 (RSH)