IUPUI Library Faculty
Meeting Minutes
Attending: Jim Baldwin, Fran Brahmi, Jan Cox, Polly
Boruff-Jones, Todd Daniels-Howell, Nancy Eckerman, Carole Gall, Edward González, Randall Halverson, Joe Harmon, Jennifer
Hehman, Dolores Hoyt, Mary Hudson, Karen Janke, Kellie Kaneshiro, Sue London, Chris Long,
Martha McCormick, Julie
McGowan, Mahnaz Moshfegh, Sally Neal, Bill Orme, Kevin Petsche, Rick Ralston, Peggy
Richwine, Elaine
Skopelja, Sonja Staum-Kuniej, Stephen Towne, Wendell Johnting
Forum: The committee to
review IUPUI’s current policies and procedures affecting librarians’ promotion
and tenure reported on their discussions and work
Presiding: Martha McCormick
Recording: Sally Neal
Martha McCormick
announced that Jan Cox has been appointed Head Librarian of the IU School of Dentistry
Library.
Jan Cox announced the
airing and invited those interested to attend a teleconference on the USA
PATRIOT Act being held Dec. 11 from
The
Library Directors
Reports:
The ‘People Mover’
construction continues making access to the Medical Library problematic.
Dental Library: Jan Cox
IUSDL is progressing with the CLIO
software implementation and is targeting
A search and screen
committee has been formed to hire a new library director; Kenny Crews is
chairing this committee. Interviews will
take place in Jan. – Feb. 2003 with a new hire starting July 1. The Law School Library is going through an
independent review from outside consultants from Case Western and
IUPUI Library Faculty Bylaws
Committee – no
report
IUPUI Library Faculty Committee Nominating
Committee – no
report
IUPUI Library Faculty Standards
Committee – no
report
IUPUI Library Faculty Promotion and
Tenure Committee – no
report
Suzanne
Thorin provided an Administrative Report to the committee. She is pleased with Bepko assuming IU interim
presidency. Dean Thorin is projecting a
0% increase in the systemwide budget.
Dean Thorin will be meeting with the IU Board of Trustees to discuss
such issues as database access and consistent statistics for databases. In particular, Julie McGowan noted that Dean
Thorin will be introducing the idea of a systemwide budget to determine
database purchasing. This has developed
from IUlink.
IU Main
Library Bloomington is conducting a pilot project of keeping the building open
until
IULFC has a
webmaster position available.
Academic
Standards are being looked at by BJ Irvine and Linda Fisher.
The
committee is continuing to look at:
mentoring – how to handle it, is it working and how useful is the mid-tenure
process. The committee will be conducting
the following workshops on the following dates (topics to be announced later).
April (date not set yet) –
May 9 –
April 25, Librarians Day – focus on
mentoring
University Faculty Council – Jennifer Hehmann
There is
some rewriting occurring with the constitution.
There are now two localized committees dealing with research affairs. These committees monitor copyright and intellectual
property issues. Kenny Crews sits on
these committees.
The Annual InULA
Booksale will be held Sunday, April 6,
There was no old
business to report.
New Business
President
Bepko will give his last State of the Campus message Dec 5 at
The group took a
break. Upon reconvening, the IUPUI
librarian committee reviewing the guidelines for librarian P&T at IUPUI
reported on their progress. The group is
chaired by Sara Hook, Associate Dean of the Faculties at IUPUI. Sara led the discussion and committee members
reported on their working group assignments. The current IUPUI Promotion and Tenure
Guidelines are available at: http://www.jaguars.iupui.edu/frames/home/home.html
Once there, select
‘Promotion and Tenure Documents’ on the left side of the screen.
The meeting
adjourned.
Respectively
submitted,
Sally Neal, Secretary