LIB407
May 9, 2002
Present: Susan Saunders Bellingham, Betty Graf, Michele Laing, Sharon Lamont, Richard Pinnell (chair), Linda Teather
Absent: Margaret Aquan-Yuen, Murray Shepherd
- Approval of Agenda
Agenda was approved
- Approval of Minutes
Minutes were approved with revisions
- Business arising
Rebinding project – User Services staff are still assessing the books at Porter – all UMD architectural material will not be included in Michele’s report, but will be rebound as necessary following normal procedures.
- Chair’s comments
- The Federal Government’s announcement scheduled for May 13 has been postponed until the end of the month.
- Richard has been asked to attend the LBPC meeting on May 21, there will be a Library staff meeting on June 11, 2002 - Richard and Michele will provide an update on the activities of the Architecture Library Task Group.
- Rick Haldenby has given his OK to release the committee’s minutes from the "private" area and make them public.
- Report on Architecture school meeting - May 9
Michele and Richard attended a meeting at the School of Architecture to hear the agenda item on “Relocation of the school of architecture”. Richard’s summary of that meeting is as follows:
- Building is owned by the Cambridge Consortium
- Board of Governors and Senate have approved the new location
- Overall cost of the project is $27.2 M
- Capital costs (renovations, equipment): $15 M
- Endowment (operating costs, maintenance, shuttle transport, electronic communication): $12 M
- Another endowment (staff costs: library, computing, etc)
- Amount raised so far is approx $20 M
- City of Cambridge: $7.5 M over 15 years
- Provincial SuperBuild grant: $4.15 M
- Federal matching funds: $4.15 M
- Private donations: approx $4 M
- Selecting an Architect – expected 80-90 expressions of interest by 4:00 May 9, 2002.
- 2 stage selection process
- Committee - 2 members from the City of Cambridge (one will be the Head of the Public Library), 3 from the Cambridge consortium, 9 from U of W seven of whom are from the school of architecture (Rick, 4 faculty, 1 grad and 1 undergrad)
- Narrow down to 6-8 firms - second round will involve interviews - completed within the next month
- Renovations are scheduled to begin September 2002
- The school’s current space in ES2 may be used for general lecture halls.
- Fund raising launch - June 13, 2002 (it is expected the consortium will have raised 2/3 of what they need before the launch)
- Collaboration with the public library and the art gallery (sharing staff, etc)
Architecture Selection committee
One of the nine UW representatives will be from the Library. The committee nominated Michele Laing as their representative.
- Opening Day Scenario
Visual Resources Centre/Materials Resources Centre
The committee continued to walk through the Opening Day Scenario identifying equipment needed in each area.
Equipment
- 1 staff computer workstation
- 1 desk
- 1 filing cabinet
- 2 chairs
- Next meeting
Richard will call for schedules to plan a meeting for next week
