Library Advisory Committee
March 8, 2016
7:30am to 8:30am
C1800
Members Present: Guodong Liu, Dawit Aregawi, Scot Kimball, Ron Dowen, Joyce Tombran-Tink, Marsha Novick, and Nick Buchkovich
Library Faculty: Cynthia Robinson, Nancy Adams, Lori Snyder, Esther Dell, Amy Knehans, Marie Cirelli, and Xiaoyu Sun
Apologies : Ben Hoover, Ryan Klinger, Khaled Sedeek, Janelle Izer, Christine Travelute, Travis Watson, Todd Felix, Abe Taylor, Jan McAllister, James Martin, Judie Howrylak, Rebecca Bascom, Judith Weisz, William Cantore, Aman Dhawan, Jozef Malysz, Todd Fox, Michael Murray, Amit Agarwal, and Eric Walker
Cynthia Robinson, Director of the Harrell Health Sciences Library opened the meeting and welcomed everyone. She introduced everyone to Amy Sawyer, an Ad Hoc member of the Library Advisory Council from Nursing, she will be representing issues surrounding the nurses collection.
1. Library Update
A. Renovation – Opened up the back end for new entrance and stairs. Should be done in May and will have in place by June, The complete renovation should be completed in October of 2016. There will be a grand opening in January of 2017. Working with Development office for renovation and also long term for collections endowments, there are new brochures out for the Renovations and list naming opportunities.
B. Budget - Collections and post renovation technology costs, examples include software, leases, and other misc. items
Collections budget will have no more carry over funds, Cynthia Robinson had a conversation with Eric Strucko, the new CFO, she will be asking for half a million dollars for the collections budget.
C. Changes to Webpage – The webpage is transitioning to Drupel sometime fall of 2016.
2. Introductions
Ryan Klinger – new hire for the library – he will be in charge of the new spaces in the library. All High Performance computers, Visualization wall, 3D Printing will all be supervised by him.
3. Library Sponsored Symposium
Esther Dell will be giving a symposium on April 26, 2016. The Symposium will highlight two main topics Copyright and Plagiarism. There will be two speakers one from University Park and a Representative from University Council. A formal Announcement will be given at the next Faculty Org. and a flyer will be sent out.
4. Harrell HSL Collections
A. Budget is increased by inflationary increases and wanting new things that are in demand for the departments. We are maintaining what collections we have, buying new things for collections and weeding out and getting rid of titles no longer needed.
B. Lori added titles to the University Libraries request list that she received from departments. She is pursuing cost estimates on journals that have a lot of ILL to purchase in the next fiscal year. Lori is working on a project with Anatomy materials for titles that would be useful in their courses. She is talking with the liaison about partnering on purchasing new resources.
C. We will be piggy-backing on University Park Discovery systems and re-evaluating.
5. Questions/Comments from faculty?
A. Comment was made that ILL is easy to use.
B. A reminder that 2FA needs to be done by May 10, 2016. Any thumbprint page- Hershey number will not work. Will have two numbers, one for University Park and the other for Hershey. ITS page at Main campus has instructions on how to set this up for everyone.
C. Nancy is working diligently with construction company to avoid really noisy construction during testing time.
D. The rooms above the library they are creating three PBL rooms and pathogen training space, there will also be 24 hours study space and a experimental classroom.
E. In the library there will be small study rooms specifically for students with separate booking using the program LibCal. You will have the capability to get LibCal on your phone, tablets, ect…These rooms are specifically for students and there needs to be two or more students in a small study room at one time.
F. In the upcoming Meeting we will talk about and display out new webpage when it’s further in progress.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00am
Next Library Committee Meeting
June 7, 2016 – room C1800 -7:30am – 8:30am