Draft—IUPUI
Library Faculty Meeting Minutes
20
February 2002, Ruth Lilly Medical Library (IB 301/302)
Attending: James
Baldwin, Polly Boruff-Jones, Fran Brahmi, Nancy Eckerman, Carole Gall, Kathleen
Hanna, Joseph Harmon, Robert Hinton, Fran Huehls, May Jafari, Kellie Kaneshiro,
David Lewis, Sue London, Chris Long, Martha McCormick, James Morgan, Sally
Neal, Daniel Schuetz, Elaine Skopelja.
Presiding: Polly
Boruff-Jones
Recording: Fran Huehls
Polly
Boruff-Jones: announced a preconference session, April 29—Psychology of
Learning—at ILF.
David
Lewis:
report on PALNI/Lilly Academic Library Planning Project: As part of information
system upgrade funding, PALNI asked by Lilly to do a study to assess the
potential for library statewide collaboration.
Liz Bischoff and Nancy Allen are consultants for the project; the
steering committee has representation from academic libraries across the state. Focus groups were held last fall to help set
priorities for the project. The task
forces that came out of the focus group priorities are working on six
areas: licensing of content; resource
sharing for print materials; web based tools, i.e. SFX, portals; bandwidth;
shared infrastructure; shared remote storage.
A seventh priority—staff development—has been tabled for the time
being. Reports from the task force
groups are due to the steering committee by April 2002. Expects that licensing and shared storage
facilities will be the first areas where we see action; resource sharing has
political repercussions. Governance and
ongoing funding will have to be worked out over the summer. Electronic reference is not a component at
this stage.
Martha
McCormick:
distributed program books and business cards for Susan Slaybaugh, the library
liaison for the Center for Teaching and Learning. The CTL has gone to a liaison consultant model and will work
individually with library faculty; the Center was not originally designed to
work with the sporadic teaching of librarians but is working to change
that. Librarians should note upcoming
programs on teaching philosophy and teaching portfolio development; teaching
portfolios are important for recognitions such as FACET awards. Martha also reminded the membership that
internal IUPUI grants are open to librarians; asked for suggestions for CTL
programs.
Sue
London:
reported on meeting of Council of Head Librarians: Bloomington now has its own
development officer and has developed brochures and forms (gift-in-kind paperwork,
gift policies). SIRSI/Unicorn improvements have focused on linkage (SFX) and
connectivity. The collection of various
virtual resources will be called “Online.”
A system-wide electronic reserves system is being considered
(ERES). Storage for shared databases
will be available in July. The library
system is considering the need to hire a consultant for system-wide strategic
planning. David Lewis
contributed that SIRSI may soon be able to provide cross-campus borrowing,
rather than using interlibrary loans between campuses; campuses would also go
to a common loan period. University
Library and University College are purchasing plagiarism detection
software. He also commented that
University Library has accomplished a great deal in terms of SFX implementation. The budget news is not good; the increase
for support centers will be 1%; salary increases will be around 3%. Another topic of discussion at the CHL
meeting was the concern that few librarians from the regional campuses are
applying for promotion to full rank. The criteria for promotion were written
for Bloomington and IUPUI; do not necessarily work well for the regional
campuses. [In the general discussion
that followed, the consensus of opinion was that it would be an appropriate
time to weigh the advantages of librarians being evaluated as one unit vs on an
individual campus basis. Polly
Boruff-Jones said she would initiate a conversation via the LIBFAC listserve
and consider calling a special meeting.]
Presentation : Sue London
demonstrated the capabilities of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library’s wireless
classroom.
Business
meeting:
Approval
of meeting minutes deferred.
Primary
Peer Review/Promotion/Tenure (Fran Brahmi):
No workshops have been set up yet for spring.
Meeting
adjourned at 3:37
Respectfully
submitted,
Fran
Huehls, Secretary