Executive Committee Meeting Summary, April 16, 2015

  • The Friends of Fondren student research awards were announced.
  • Planning for the upcoming renovations of the first floor is underway. A working group led by Kerry Keck worked out a process and a timeline for re-locating materials. The furniture group has reviewed carpet and furniture samples; furniture will be ordered by early May.
  • Fondren plans to roll out CORAL as an open source module for electronic resource management. Scott Vieira will coordinate the work with IT and other staff.
  • Fondren will be participating in a campus-wide effort to improve accessibility, such as by closed-captioning new library-produced videos and making PDFs searchable.