IUPUI Library Faculty Meeting Minutes

19 September 2001, Ruth Lilly Law Library Conference Room

 

Attending: James Bailey, James Baldwin, Polly Boruff-Jones, Brenda Burk, Fran Brahmi, Dwight Burlingame, Todd Daniels-Howell, Nancy Eckerman, Randall Halverson, Kathleen Hanna, Joseph Harmon, Jennifer Hehman,  Fran Huehls, May Jafari, Chris Long, Martha McCormick, Pat McWilliams, Mary Beth Minick, Miriam Murphy, Kevin Petsche, Daniel Schuetz, Sonja Staum-Kuniej, Stephen Towne

 

Presiding: Polly Boruff-Jones

Recording: Fran Huehls

 

Announcements

 

Boruff-Jones greeted the members, thanked the librarians of the Law School for providing the room and refreshments, and introduced the guest speaker, Daniel Callison, of the School of Library and Information Science.

 

Guest speaker: Daniel Callison

 

Callison spoke briefly about the history of the SLIS programs at IUPUI.  As of 2000, the Master of Information Science (MIS) will be offered only at the Bloomington campus. The Master of Library Science (MLS) and the MLS/Specialization in Library Technology Management will be offered at IUPUI.  A dual degree (MLS/MIS) will also be offered at the Bloomington campus.  The IUPUI program will be expanding, including offering Friday evening and Saturday classes.  The goal is to attain full ALA accreditation for the IUPUI program. SLIS at IUPUI currently has around 250 students.  They are working with students who started the MIS at IUPUI to finish their course requirements.  Up until now, IUPUI has had no full time SLIS faculty.  Although Callison is now the only full time faculty member, they hope to add five more in the next year.  They hope to recruit faculty that have attained the Ph.D., are student/teaching oriented, are willing to work with a variety of distance education formats, and already have some experience in the field.

 

Business meeting

 

The membership roster was circulated for attendance and corrections.

 

Randi Stocker was elected as alternate to IULFC.  She replaces Amy Cavanaugh.

 

Boruff-Jones called for volunteers to fill out the remaining committee slots.

 

Old business:  Minutes from the April 18, 2001 need to be approved.  This has been deferred to the November meeting.

 

New business:  None

 

Meeting was adjourned at 3:20 pm

 

Tours of the Ruth Lilly Law Library followed the meeting.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Fran Huehls, Secretary