Draft—IUPUI Library Faculty Meeting Minutes

September 17, 2003 / Law Library Conference Room

 

 

Attending: Jim Baldwin, Polly Boruff-Jones, Vania Goodwin, Kathleen Hanna, Joseph Harmon, Jennifer Hehman, Robert Hinton, Karen Jenke, David Lewis, Martha McCormick, Ann O’Bryan, Kristi Palmer, Kevin Petsche, Emily Dill, Janet Feldmann, Judith Anspach, Mary Hudson, Richard Humphrey, Wendell Johnting, Chris Long, Mahnaz Moshfegh, Miriam Murphy, Jan Cox, Fran Brahmi, Sue London, Peggy Richwine, Suzanne Thorin

 

Presiding: Randall Halverson 

Recording:  Amy Hatfield

 

Call to Order:

The meeting was called to order by Randall Halverson, IUPUI Library Faculty Chair.  Mr. Halverson asked for brief introductions and announcements.

 

April 23, 2003 minutes approved with no corrections.

 

Announcements:

Martha McCormick - DSpace implemented at University Library.  In beta test mode currently.  A test community for IUPUI libraries has been created and will be structured to include each IUPUI Library represented as a Collection within the IUPUI Libraries Community.  Martha asked that those interested in establishing a test library Collection to please contact her.

 

Miriam Murphy –Looking for InULA Indianapolis Book Sale chair and volunteers and for names to be put forth for the Indiana Library Federation (ILF) Executive Board from the Middle Managers Division

 

Jennifer Hehman – Project Director for a new ILF Division of Women’s project: a digital online archive of images of “Women in Indiana Libraries: 1850-1950“ located on the ILF Division of Women homepage.  The project is to create online an archive of pictures of the women who worked in Indiana Libraries –all across the state in those years.  Also, InULA needs members to renew their membership and volunteer for committees for this coming year- in particular, the InULA IUPUI Book Sale Committee needs volunteers to serve.  Miriam Murphy is the President of InULA for 2003-2004.

 

Peggy Richwine – New Public Health web page on Medical Library website: Indiana Public Health Information Network (http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/pbhealth/).  Peggy also received a grant to create portable computer classroom for Public Health training and conducted her first session in Kokomo Tuesday, September 16th.

 

Judith Anspach – Introduced herself as the new law library director.

 

Randall Halverson, Chair - Next meeting will be on Wednesday November 19, 2003 2PM – 4PM University Library, UL1116.  Special guests will be SLIS representatives.

 

Library Directors’ Reports:

 

University Library – David Lewis

- Kicked off celebration of University Library’s 10th yr - events throughout the academic year – culminating with a gala event on April 17th.

- Digital Library news includes: DSpace implementation (IDEA – IUPUI Digital Archive) in beta phase – being developed as campus resource; PRO: Philanthropy Resources Online - converted book materials - continued growth; new history of Indianapolis digital archive project with IMCPL; University Library received grant for an online archive collection.

- University Library is exploring and evaluating federated search engines.  Currently evaluating Ex Libris/ MetaLib with particular interest in portal creation, SFX functionality and Oncourse/Angel integration enabling linking to digital content.

- Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) is being customized for University Library and is nearly complete.

- Involvement in Jumpstart, Center for Teaching & Learning and other instruction initiatives continues to be active.

- ILLiad (ILL product) is up and running enabling better stat provision.

- University Library is implementing pay for printing today but will not charge until likely the Spring semester (will be collecting usage stats throughout the Fall).

 

IUPU Columbus Library - Janet Feldmann

- Patty Vahey is now at IUB and Emily Dill has taken her place.

- Nasser H. Paydar has been appointed the new Dean and Vice Chancellor of IUPUI-Columbus

- Working on Ivy Tech collaborative initiative

 

Medical Library – Peggy Richwine reporting for Julie McGowan

- IUSM Centennial celebration kick-off is September 23rd.  Event includes all 8 campuses via polycom connection and a giant cake in the shape of Indiana.  Location of event is the Atrium lobby, Van Nuys Medical Science Building.

- People mover up and running - good publicity for library

- We are hosting Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Annual Meeting.  Kellie Kaneshiro is president; Julie McGowan is keynote; Amy Hatfield is presenting “GIS and Medical Librarians” during the academic concurrent session; Nancy Eckerman is presenting “Our Brave Soldiers” during the general concurrent session.  All are invited to register and attend.

- An OVID CE course will be held Tuesday morning in University Library - new IUPUI librarians can contact Peggy to participate.

- Reorganization of library and other IUSM departments 1 yr ago formed our new IUSM department: Information Resources & Educational Technologies (IRET).  IRET includes the Medical Library, Visual Media, Presentation Technology Services and Educational Technologies.

- A new service unit is being developed called the Advanced Technology Collaboratory (ATC - Amy heading). 

- Medical Library is developing new web site

 

Law Library - Judith Anspach

-  Accreditation visit was last spring and received good report – fits nicely with Judith’s agenda for library and will use as a guide in moving forward with initiatives

- Report indicated more librarians with JD/MLS were needed - 2 positions for new librarians are being created

- Ambitious faculty liaison initiative

-  Looking at increasing reference services to include weekends and late night - evening program requires late night reference

-  Monographs not up to par due to several issues - evaluating current collection and will grow collection to include more interdisciplinary materials

- 2 Centers: The Center for Law and Health & Center for International and Comparative Law

- An approval plan will be put in place

- Introduced a new MLS/JD joint program through SLIS

 

Dental Library - Jan Cox

-  Conducted website survey – currently in analysis phase – goal is to refine pages for optimal usage.

-  New trial of Lexi-Comp online for dental - Lexi-Drugs online*

- Participating in request delivery service - 3 requests/no request made by us/faculty pleased/concern with delivery - due to cost efficiency, will not change delivery mechanism

- Participating in Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Annual Meeting

- Enhancement of archives portion of website to include historical timeline of school

 

Committee Reports:

Joe Harmon - IUPUI Promotion &Tenure

Overview of committee:

- 18-20 representatives/one from every unit

- Joe represents all campus libraries

- Dossiers from last year totaled approx 120

- Primary and secondary presenters receive a selected number of dossiers to review/primary presents the dossier cases and makes recommendations/secondary can add comments and give recommendations/if good, goes through/well-written dossiers will do that

- Weak case/badly written - all have to read - *upsets* P&T Committee - not a good idea

- Typically a weak dossiers includes too much detail and not enough emphasis on important items - bad strategy

- Joe is not advocate for Librarians - he is a resource for librarians, but does not read or present librarian dossiers

- Advices in preparing - get lots of perspectives and input/ferret out your case so there are no questions

- Personal recommendation - publish!  Not required of librarians, but very important - provides a discipline - write and present.

- Other commenter tips:

+ Jennifer Hehman - publish in field and library journal/top tier journal in field

+ Fran Brahmi – publication is important - peer review and status of journal needs to be communicated/ use JCR to get stats on journal and citation analysis of own publications.

+ James Bowman – indicating importance of publication is responsibility of supervisor - but we need to be sure the supervisor knows importance of journal/narrative is important: narrative should be written as narrative - needs to have a theme & carry through

+ Peggy Richwine – re: publications - give time to get published and *cited* prior to submitting dossier

- Joe recommends being on the committee

- New P&T guidelines available online - http://www.jaguars.iupui.edu/frames/forms/ptreviewguidelines0304.doc

Old Business

 

No old business to report.

 

New Business

 

No new business introduced.

 

Break

 

The group then took a break.

 

Special Guest Dean Thorin: "State of the IU Libraries"

 

Meeting adjourned at approximately 11:00 a.m.

 

Respectively submitted,

Amy Hatfield, secretary