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Library Managers • Minutes

Library Managers, February 1, 2005
9:15 a.m. , LIB 428

Present: Susan Saunders Bellingham, Betty Graf, Mark Haslett (Chair), Michele Laing, Sharon Lamont, Wish Leonard, Richard Pinnell, Shabiran Rahman, Susan Routliffe, Mary Stanley, Linda Teather, Debbie Tytko, Annette Dandyk (Recorder)

Regrets: Eric Boyd, Jim Parrott

  1. UW Work Placement Program

    The Library has been allocated 11 positions in fiscal 2005/2006 (Spring, Fall, and Winter terms). Managers were asked to submit their requests/job descriptions to Annette by February 9th. They will be forwarded to the Library Executive Committee for review and decision.

    Action: LibExec

  2. User Services Name Change

    In the absence of a department head, Wish Leonard will act as the communications link between User Services and the Library Managers group, and will attend Managers meetings.

    When ILL/DD was incorporated into User Services the four existing User Services Managers agreed that they would be able to handle the additional workload with some reorganization. The department consists of three distinct units (Collections, Lending, and Resource Sharing). In November Library staff was asked to submit suggestions for a name change for User Services. After meeting with User Services staff to solicit feedback, User Services Managers recommended that the department be renamed Circulation Services.

    The proposed name was well received by the Library Managers Group and it was agreed that the name change could take place effective immediately Sharon will send a message to Library staff informing that: a reorganization has taken place within User Services; Wish will act as the link with Managers; and, the unit has been renamed Circulation Services. Wish will inform appropriate TUG staff.

    Action: Sharon, Wish

  3. Updates

    The Library had been engaged in discussions about the possibility of hiring a librarian on contract for up to two years under the University’s spousal opportunity program. Jennifer Haas, who has accepted the position of Department Head in Davis ISR, was the librarian who might have come under this program.

    Malcolm Gladwell will discuss his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), on Saturday February 12th, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

    Mark, Richard, Susan R, Jake Thiessen (Director of the School of Pharmacy), and Hulene Montgomery (Associate Director, Office of Development and Alumni Affairs) are scheduled to meet on February 10th to discuss plans for the School of Pharmacy, the curriculum, and the school’s relationship with the Library.

    Action: Mark, Richard, Susan

    The Library will receive one-time quality assurance funds of $500,000 for information resources. The money must be expended by the end of this fiscal. Susan will send a message to all Liaison Librarians (cc: to Library Managers ) with details about the products that will be purchased.

    Action: Susan

Next meeting: Wednesday, February 9; 9:15 a.m. LIB 428

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August 2, 2005