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Community Needs Assessment Committee • Minutes

Meeting Notes #35 (January 28, 1997)

Present: Amos Lakos, Connie Pantic (recorder), Sharon Lamont, Shabiran Rahman (facilitator), Wendy Macpherson, Laurie Strome, Ann Naese
Guest: S. Routliffe
Absent: M. Stanley

  1. The Minutes of January 14, 1997 meeting were approved as distributed. Naese will start putting our minutes (#33) on the Web.

  2. TUG Policy Integration (S. Routliffe)

    The TUG Document is being prepared. Most policies of each Library have been identified and are being integrated. The report is being fine-tuned and stream lined and should be finished by mid-February. Copies will be sent to Client Services Group for review and approval. User Services will be asked to give feed back. The document will then go to Library Council for approval. The question as to what is to be taken to students, if anything, was discussed. There was concern as to the transition from one set of rules to another for students. A Focus Group may be needed to give guidance as to how students may react to changes to policy. Since User Services Staff have to deal with irate students, education sessions for User Services staff, UMD Staff, Church Colleges Staff, and Reference Staff was suggested. The following was decided:

    1. We need to understand policies
    2. Library needs to be able to talk to clients informatively
    3. Parallel the 3 institutions. All of these issues need to be looked at.

  3. Terms of Reference (C. Pantic). This is to be deferred until next meeting.

  4. Study Space (A. Lakos)

    A. Lakos distributed the Study Space Reports he compiled for Davis and Porter. He did analysis of actual use of space, and worked out daily average, also time / hour. The conclusion was that the occupancy rate for Porter was pretty low @ 25%, and the occupancy rate for Davis was much higher @ 57%. A discussion ensued re: carrels verses tables. This will be looked at and a report done in the near future, @ 2-3 weeks, by Amos and Sharon.

  5. Library Council Report - A. Lakos

    A. Lakos discussed and summarized. The Infrastructure Group is revising the Safety Manual. Library Council would like us to review what we did over the year, W. Macpherson volunteered to put together a draft.

Next Meeting February 4, 1997
Workshop scheduled for February 18, 1997

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