November 20, 2014
The group discussed agenda items for the next library Town Hall, including a renovation update, staff introductions and updates on open access, room booking and web redesign.
Some future meeting topics were penciled in:
December 4 Library Plan review
(http://library.rice.edu/about/admin_org/mission-goals/mission-goals)
January 15 Updates, Library System Review
January 22 Ithaka survey; Assessment
January 29 Updates
February 19 Information Literacy; CRUP objective and report discussion (http://www.professor.rice.edu/images/professor/facultysenate/crup_report.pdf)
The 2005 report of the Committeee on the Rice Undergraduate Program (CRUP; http://www.professor.rice.edu/images/professor/facultysenate/crup_report.pdf) is being reviewed in preparation for Rice’s upcoming decennial re-accreditation process. The library has been asked to review the core element of Information Access and Evaluation (#6) to update wording and suggest techniques.
The group also may discuss selected issue briefs from Ithaka S+R (http://www.sr.ithaka.org/issue-briefs).
Completed performance appraisals are due to Lowman by March 13. Each Executive Committee member may set an internal schedule to meet that deadline. Self-evaluations of Executive Committee members are due to Lowman by Jan. 16.
November 27, 2014
No meeting (Thanksgiving Holiday)
December 4, 2014
The group discussed an upcoming power outage connected with the basement construction. All facts are not yet clear; details will be made available when they are.
The closure of the women’s basement restroom will extend 1-2 more weeks, due to unanticipated problems detaching the existing countertop. The DMC move is on schedule for Dec. 19; the service will reopen Jan. 10. The collaborative space should be ready for use by Jan. 19.
The group discussed the existing planning document for the library, public version at: http://bit.ly/1zvd4xr, internal version (more detailed; login required) at: http://bit.ly/1wFaHul. Most of the document remains relevant; Flannery suggested adding under Outreach a second goal covering the various ways we reach out to the community. She will draft wording for the group to consider. The group also noted how many of the project-level initiatives (clickable in the internal version) have been accomplished. Butler suggested tasking the Horizon group with drafting new project-level initiatives for the coming year, involving other staff as appropriate. Lowman will discuss the possibility with Horizon group co-chairs Shannon Kipphut-Smith and Amanda Focke.