A G E N D A
1. Announcements
2. Cabinet turnover and orientation for new members
3. New Ideas funding and library implications
4. Library Priority Statements
5. Budget planning activities
M I N U T E S
1. Announcements
Former Chancellor Mike Heyman and former Vice Chancellor Mac Laetsch will
co-chair the Library's Campaign Leadership Committee (CLC). The committee
met on June 25 to discuss fund raising plans for the Doe Annex and Bancroft
Library renovation project.
Gail Ford, Bernie Hurley and Sheila Wekselbaum will begin their term in
July as the new Roundtable Agenda Committee. Topics appropriate for
discussions within Roundtable should be forwarded to any or all of these
new RT agenda committee members.
2. Cabinet turnover and orientation for new members (T.Leonard)
Cabinet expressed appreciation to outgoing members Barbara Glendenning and
Nick Robinson for their energetic participation in Cabinet deliberations
during their tenures. Kathryn Wayne, as chair of the Arts & Humanities
Council, will continue on Cabinet for another six months through December.
Effective July, Cabinet will welcome new members Jim Church as chair the
Social Sciences Council and Bette Anton as chair of the Sciences Council.
Outgoing members have met with their replacements and Cabinet will provide
a brief orientation for incoming members at the July 3 meeting.
3. New Ideas funding and library implications (T.Leonard, P.Iannuzzi)
The New Ideas Internal Review Committee issued its final report and
recommended FTE faculty allocations as follows: Computational Biology, 7
FTE; Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, 7 FTE; Regional and Metropolitan
Studies, 5 FTE; New Media, 2 FTE; The Future of the Planet, 0 FTE. It is
expected that faculty recruitment authorizations for these positions will
be part of the 2003-04 budget cycle.
In the Library's March response to the New Ideas proposals, it was noted
that some library collections have been under development in our existing
subject specialty structure as these new areas of interdisciplinary study
have emerged. A point librarian has been identified for each of these new
areas. For now, the Library will deal with the impacts of these new
programs through the Collections Council and the Library's present
liaison/selector structure. Patty Iannuzzi will continue consultations with
Professor Whitney Davis regarding the programmatic requirements of the New
Media Initiative (NMI) and coordinate fund raising activities with
Professor Davis (History of Art Department) and Dave Duer (Library
Development Office).
4. Library Priority Statements (T.Leonard, B.Hurley, S.Wong)
Cabinet approved and endorsed "Themes for Guiding the Library" and for the
past three Cabinet meetings worked to develop "Library Priorities". On June
5, Katherine Mitchell facilitated the extended Cabinet meeting and
exercises for developing priorities in each of the Library's nine core
functions. For the June 12 meeting, Bernie Hurley and Susan Wong captured
the ideas expressed by Cabinet members at the earlier meeting and drafted
priority statements for further Cabinet discussion. The June 19 meeting
was devoted to synthesizing ideas expressed by Roundtable in the
preserve/reduce exercise on April 24 with Cabinet's draft priority
statements, and preparing for the Roundtable presentation on June 26. The
plan included introducing the draft "Priority Statements" to Roundtable,
soliciting feedback from Roundtable, and providing a follow-up Zoomerang
survey for additional comments.
Bernie incorporated Roundtable's feedback from the morning's session for
Cabinet's review. Tom Leonard will issue a statement to all library staff
regarding the budget planning process to-date, including the general budget
reduction strategy, the guiding themes, the draft priority statements, and
next steps for departmental discussions on how themes and priorities relate
to our work in the library.
5. Budget planning activities (T.Leonard, B.Hurley, S.Wong)
Transcriptions of the flip charts from the four Library Staff Sessions on
themes for "Flexibility" and "Fairness" were distributed to Cabinet in
preparation for the Cabinet discussion on July 3. Next week, Cabinet will
synthesize the Flexibility/Fairness data. Tom will issue an updated budget
message, including expectations for a 10% permanent reduction in the
Library's operations budget.
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