The University of Kansas Libraries

KU Libraries Support Staff

KULSS Executive Meeting
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 10:00-11:30
Anschutz 437

Present: Jill Becker (Chair), Kristin Zachrel (Secretary), Adam Reilly (Group 1), Julie Woodrick (Group 2), Sharon Riley (Group 3)

Absent: Robert Szabo (Vice-chair)

Previous Meeting's Action Items

Group Reports

Group 1 (Adam):

• Laura Kitzmiller's last day was February 3rd; she left for a job in Kansas City. Cataloging had a going-away party for her. They aren't sure if her position will be filled.

Group 2 (Julie):

• FO is supposed to move forward building new rooms in 4th floor Watson.
  • Julie Woodrick has been boxing materials from the 4th floor, which are being moved to a different part of Watson 4. This happened quickly because FO was ready to start work on the rooms immediately.

Group 3 (Sharon):

• Jill Becker accepted the First Year Experience Coordinator position.
• The new rooms on the 4th floor in Anschutz are completed. They’re still trying to decide what to do with Jill’s Support Staff position in Instruction; they would need to figure out what specifically that position would be.

Committee Reports

Support Staff Senate: Nothing to report.

University Committee on Libraries: Nothing to report.

Mentoring Committee: Nothing to report.

LOSDC: Nothing to report.

Meeting Updates

Dean's KULSS (next mtg: 2/15/12): Hasn't met yet.

Concerns to Bring up with the Dean:

• Staff development budget.
  • Advise on the sessions we're looking at and that the only costs we should have would be food.
• Staff profiles.

Miscellaneous

The Staff Leadership Summit is February 21st. If you are interested sign up ASAP.

KULSS Chair

• Since Jill's new position is Unclassified Professional, she will no longer be Chair of KULSS. Robert will become the chair.
• We can also appoint someone to be Vice-chair. We can put feelers out to see if someone is interested in serving on the committee next year and maybe get them on board now. Or we have the option to not fill the Vice-chair position for the remainder of the year since there isn't much to report at the moment.
• Jill will meet with Robert one-on-one to give him the agenda template and pass along information. Jill will pass along her chair folder to Meredith unless Robert wants it. Jill may copy her KULSS documents onto the KULSS folder on the G drive (agendas, workshop planning, etc).
• Sharon will go with Robert to the Dean's meeting next week.

Staff Development

• Ideas for the session included Terry's conflict management, which he is already teaching on March 15th and Kathleen's Power of Self Management.
• Kristin will email Kathleen Ames-Oliver and Terry Proctor about our options for a customized session geared toward Support Staff. Advise them about the survey we did and the top two topics were supervisor/staff relationships and personality assessment. We'll estimate a max of 50 people for a morning event (between 9-noon or 8–11) on March 20, 21, or 22. Since there is a materials fee for the personality assessment course find out if there is any sort of group discount available or if participants could they take the free short version on the Personality Pathways website to keep the cost down.

Staff Profiles

• Mike suggested we ask participants to include their Strengths and a way they use their Strengths in the profile.

Action Items for Next Meeting

Parking Lot
(Items to be aware of for the future, not necessarily discussed in current meeting)

• HREO Categories
• Work with LFPA to change the language for the Dean's 5 Year Review Committee to include a Support Staff member.

Next Meeting: February 23rd, 10:00-11:30 in Anschutz Room 438.