The University of Kansas Libraries

KU Libraries Support Staff

KULSS Executive Meeting
Thursday, December 15, 2012, 10:00-11:30
Watson 503B

Present: Jill Becker (Chair), Robert Szabo (Vice-Chair), Kristin Zachrel (Secretary), Adam Reilly (Group 1), Julie Woodrick (Group 2)

Absent: Sharon Riley (Group 3)

Previous Meeting's Action Items

Group Reports

Group 1 (Adam):

• Cataloging is having their holiday party next Wednesday and hopefully there will still be some students around for it.

Group 2 (Julie):

• Room 210 had their holiday party last week.
• Still shelving at the same rate.

Group 3 (Sharon):

• Anschutz:
  • Emergency medical staff were called to Anschutz the other day for a girl who had stayed in the library for 48 hours.
  • Had an emergency evacuation fire drill meeting yesterday.
  • IQ café is open 24 hours this week and offering free coffee and hot /chocolate during finals.
  • Teach for America gave out chips and water.
  • Had a meeting with IT about the printers. All jobs will be sent to the queue, select the printer of your choice, and print. There is concern about the extra login needed for this process.
  • A student’s laptop blew up Tuesday night. There were sparks and it sounded like a gunshot when it blew up. There is concern that the security staff didn’t hear it because they had their headphones on.

Committee Reports

Support Staff Senate: Nothing to report.

University Committee on Libraries:

• Notes from previous meeting (10/17/11)
• SenEx Committee on Libraries agenda (12/8/11)
• ACRL Executive Summary Report
• Return on Investment Update
• Return on Investment Survey
• Return on Investment Study
• Report on Conversations with Faculty & Staff

Mentoring Committee:

• John Stratton sent an email stating that they will be doing a survey of USS and UPS staff from January 9-13, 2012. The Committee met on December 8th and finalized the survey after that meeting. The purpose of the survey is to learn of staff-wide interest in participating in the mentoring program as a mentor or mentee; learning about desired outcomes; and obtaining feedback on mentoring relationships that may already exist. They will use Survey Monkey to administer the survey instrument. 
• They are working on bringing in a speaker in early February 2012 and are planning to have a forum/panel discussion in the new year as well (TBA).

LOSDC:

• LOSDC gave an annual report at the All-Staff Meeting on Friday, December 16th.

Meeting Updates

Management Council:

• Scott McEathron emailed kulib announcing that they have recommended Management Council be disbanded indefinitely given that they are unable to realize a clear purpose for the group. Dean's Exec agreed that this is the best course of action.

Dean's KULSS (next mtg: 2/7/12): Hasn't met yet.

Concerns to Bring up with the Dean:

• Staff development budget.

Action Items for Next Meeting

Next Meeting: January 12th, 10:00-11:30 in Watson 503B.