Library & Information Competency Committee Meeting
March 27, 2008
Minutes
Adopted: May 29,08
Call to order: Dr. Linda Winters, Associate Dean, Library & Learning Resources
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Members Present: Dr. Linda Winters, Edytte Arakelyan, Tiffany Ingle (proxy for Glenn Gardner), Caroline Kaba, Zohara Kaye, Rosemary Kwa, Dana Nartea, Mikhail Nouh, and Charlotte Schulten.
Members Absent: Nancy Getty, Aksel Martirosyan and Shant Shahoian
Call to order: 12:05 p.m.
Introductions
1. Approval of Minutes – It was MSC (Arakelyan/Nouh) that the minutes of the February 28, 2008 meeting be approved.
2. Informational items –
a. Shelley Aronoff, full time librarian, has asked for another year leave of absence.
The request is going to the Board of Trustees for approval. The plan is to have Susie Chin continue as a 60% replacement and 40% will be part time librarian funding.
b. Next fiscal year’s budget does not look good. The Budget committee is asking for only necessary augmentations. Dr. Winters has requested funding for service agreement expense increases.
Old Business:
1. Student Services Board Policy: Library Services –
All board policies are being reviewed. Campus Executive has changed the sentence “The library shall provide all Glendale College students access to information through personal interaction and via technology.” The committee discussed making changes to this sentence. A suggestion was made that it be changed to “The library shall provide students, faculty, staff and the community-at-large access to information through personal interaction and via technology.” It was MSC (Kaba/Nouh) that the wording be changed.
After a discussion, the committee unanimously agreed.
New Business:
1. The library is having its first program review this year, which will be due in a short timetable, April 18, 2008. The data being used is from the NCES and data collected by library staff.
2. A repeat of last year’s student survey is being planned. It is geared toward finding out what the students do in the library, how they use the online resources and library website. Edytte Arakelyan volunteered to take a few hundred surveys to the April 7 Town Hall Meeting on campus. Students will be encouraged to fill them out at the event. Rosemary Kwa suggested changing the order of the questions so they would be easier to follow:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 5A, 6, 6A, 6B, 9A, 11, 13, 12, 14A, 14, 15, 16
It was MSC (Kwa/Schulten) that the sequence of the questions be changed. After a brief discussion, the committee voted unanimously to change it.
3. Update from RAC Committee
Rosemary Kwa updated the committee on the RAC Committee activities. They are busy with ten faculty members taking a series of workshops this spring. An email was sent to all listservs about the upcoming workshop “How the Brain Works”, by Dr. Pat Wolfe, a dynamic speaker. Forty faculty members are signed up so far and they are hoping to get at least fifty. On April 25, RAC is hosting a workshop on plagiarism. Also the status of RAC is uncertain due to the upcoming budget cuts. There is talk about having the library in charge of RAC, which the committee felt that it would not be a good idea, that it should include other faculty members from other disciplines.
Dr. Winters suggested a resolution be written in support of RAC. It was MSC (Kaba/Kwa) that a resolution be drafted and an e-mail vote taken. The committee voted unanimously in favor.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:55 p.m.
Recorded by: Vivian Darakjian
The next meeting will be April 24, 2008.