Faculty Library Committee Meeting Minutes 9-19-07
Members present: B. Acker, B. Brown, J. Burroughs, A. Klene, M. McHugh, S. Mills,
C. VanRoeckel, N. Vonessen, P. Williams
Members absent/excused: Dean Allen
The meeting was called to order at 2:10 p.m. by interim chair Brown.
Members introduced themselves and were provided with the committee charge,
procedures and guidelines. Members are still needed from ASUM and Staff Senate.
Communications:
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The Department Representative meeting is scheduled for Thursday, October 18th
from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. and includes lunch.
The President’s announced possible change in focus to graduate education at the
State of the University address would require an infusion of funds in the
infrastructure including Library resources.
The Library proposed that information literacy be included in the new general
education framework under the writing skills component and ASCRC agreed.
The Writing Committee has been charged with folding this into the course
requirements. This was something Provost Engstrom suggested be included in
general education. The committee may want to have a presentation on this issue
at some point.
Business Items:
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The committee appointed Professor Mills as Chair and Professor Vonessen as
Chair-elect.
Overview of the Acquisitions Budget for fiscal year 2008
 Committee members were provided with a handout with a breakdown of the
acquisitions budget. The library received a 7% increase from fiscal year 2007 that
corresponds with the 7-8% inflation rate. This is an essential part of the
university’s agreement with the state and is included in estimated fixed costs.
Over half of the acquisitions budget, $1,778,000 is allocated to electronic
resources. Book circulation has drastically declined. The serials budget is down
from last year at $749,000. The monographs and media budget is also down
approx $300,000 at $672,396, but is still 20% of the allocations budget. MSU
only spends 10% of its allocations budget on monographs.
The budget reflects the transition to the YBP Core Book Approval plan.
Departments are no longer allocated funds for acquisitions and a supplemental
fund of $217,396 was established to purchase items not captured in the core
approval plan. The profiles were revised and expanded in most disciplines with
consultation from departmental representatives; and will be revised yearly as
faculty retire and new faculty are hired.
The document delivery budget is up at $250,000 due to contracts for improved
search services in an environment similar to Google. The binding budget is down
to $10,000 and is used mostly for government documents and some serials.
Other discussion items
 The library has not had a lot of interest in the electronic books it has available. The
platform for electronic books has improved and the Library will be taking advantage
of a vendors demo for three months.
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All thesis and dissertations are now submitted electronically and a paper copy is
archived but not bound. Dissertations have been digitized retroactively; however
there are over $10,000 thesis and these will be digitized over time.
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The FAQs on the Approval Plan is still a work in progress. Faculty should continue
to submit requests as needed to their library liaisons.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 PM.