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4/16 LMC minutes
Library Management Council (LMC)
16 April 1997
SML 409
M I N U T E S
Present: S. Bennett, M. Brogan, C. Claflin, P. Conway, K. Crilly (chair),
S. Crockford-Peters, R. Franklin, H. Kaneko, T. Lorkovic, M. Marmor, F.
Martz, D. Nitecki, S. Preneta (recording), N. Roderer, C. Rodriguez, T.
Schneiter, A. Solomon, P. Stuehrenberg, J. Swanekamp, R. Szary, D. Turner,
L. Volpi
Absent: B. Kauffman, A. Okerson, D. Stern, D. Waters
Guest: Kate Reynolds
I. Announcements
Rich Szary reported that the Corporation had reviewed the proposed plans
for Yale's tercentennial celebration and that Manuscripts and Archives had
been given approval to proceed with its proposals for the University
Archives. These plans include a review of policies regarding University
records; the re-establishment of a committee to advise the Archives and to
approve requests to destroy unneeded University records; the selection and
processing of records of historical, administrative, or community
significance from all schools, departments, and offices of the University;
development of databases of Yale historical information; and a review of
the need for a Yale oral history program. Support for these projects
includes the hiring of additional staff for the next five years as well as
technological support."
Danuta Nitecki updated members on the work of CoPY, a collective effort
involving Columbia, Penn, and Yale to redesign interlibrary loan services.
Systems staff from all three institutions are now working with a software
development firm and RLG on the technical architecture of this process.
Danuta went on to review the progress of the off-campus shelving facility,
saying a sketch of the facility's funding is in place; locations have been
identified; and building designs, locator software, and processing issues
are being explored. Early summer 1998 is this facility's targetted
completion date.
Scott Bennett added there have been three sparsely-attended public meetings
to discuss this facility, in which faculty members expressed widespread
concern over selection of materials to shelve, the sustainability of this
shelving process, and the shortcomings of Orbis. As such, these meetings
confirm the importance that this facility's high performance not be
compromised. Scott reported that in principle the Provost is committed to
treating the operating costs of this facility as an addition to the
library's base budget.
Paul Stuehrenberg asked about the status of the faculty support program.
Scott replied that all departments mentioned in the proposals will be
notified of the review committee's decisions. The committee will meet to
make these decisions later today.
Paul Conway asked about the next cycle of performance evaluations. Diane
Turner replied that the evaluation forms will be sent out soon and will be
due 30 June. Diane went on to mention that she has not yet received the
university's salary guidelines, but that they will be sent out as soon as
she receives them.
II. Staff Training and Development
Kate Reynolds updated members on the evolving plans for an extensive range
of training and staff development programs including Windows and Windows
NT, Stress Management, Update on Project X, Intro To Orbis, and a
Performance Management Series for C&Ts and M&Ps. Members suggested
additional training needs, and discussed the implementation of this
training schedule as proposed by Library Human resources. LMC will
continue this discussion next week.
Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Library Management Council will take place on
Wednesday, 23 April 1997.
URL
LMC public documents are located at
http://www.library.yale.edu/lmc/public/lmc.html