Agenda, August 13
- Library Goals for 2008/2009
- Delivery services for PhD students
- Announcements
Minutes: (Regrets: Beth Boord)
1. In consideration of Connie’s arrival in the next few months, the group reviewed a list of system-wide goals to consider proactively over the next six months. Members brought their ideas to the meeting and the committee then identified which from the list were the more immediate goals by dividing those ideas into two categories:
To Be Done in Next Six Months:
- Archives Annex
- Primo v.3
- Workstation Replacement
- Office 2007 Transition
- Springer Contract Renewal
- Budget Development Improvements
- OAK Syllabus Project
- Security Training
- DiscoverLibrary version 3
- Other Library/Committee Projects
Planning/Consider by Fiscal Year End:
- Verde Implementation
- Novell Migration to Windows
- Review System-wide Staffing
- LibQual
- Advancement of Library Web to Content Mgr.
- Marketing Plan Reevaluation
- Media Services/Copyright Media
- Analysis of Collection in Use Statistics
- Collect Instructional Materials
- Arabic Materials Acquisitions
Flo will incorporate these goals into the August 14 “Cookies and Refreshments” session and present this information to library staff. She will also discuss the Library’s accomplishments over the past year and update staff on Connie’s schedule. Connie will make short visits to Vanderbilt in November, December and January, with her official start day tentatively set for March 1, 2009.
2. Management has proposed a plan to provide delivery service to Ph.D. students. Discussions are currently underway to support this. Sue Erickson will discuss particular issues of such a service with Jim Toplon, and more information will be available in the future.
3. Announcements: There will be no Library Council meeting for the next two weeks. The committee will meet again on September 3.