Faculty Library Committee Meeting Minutes 9-21-06
Members present: B. Brown, J. Burroughs, K. Frantzreb S. Richter, T. Sobieszczyk, P.
Williams, A. Ware
Members absent/excused: B. Acker, Dean Allen, S. Mills
The meeting was called to order at 8:10 AM by Chair Ware.
The 4/18/06 minutes were approved.
Communications:
a) Dean Allen was not able to attend the meeting due to a conflict in her schedule.
b) The library representative meeting will be on October 19th. The Info Fair will be
the week prior on October 12th and will target Faculty and Graduate Students.
Several stations will be set up to provide opportunity for dialogue regarding
services. There will also be training in Refworks, a web-based bibliographic
management program, similar to End Notes.
The Library was disappointed at the poor attendance of an information session on
Scopus, a competitor to ‘Web of Science’ that has competitive pricing. The
program has reporting features above Web of Science and goes back to 1966. The
university is only able to contract with Web of Science from 1995 forward because
of the expense. It is important that the library receive feedback from faculty on this
electronic resource. Competition in this area is good. The FLC might be able to
help with this.
Unfinished Business:
a) The committee discussed the recommended changes to the charge and determined
that the details would be more appropriate in procedures. Therefore, the charge
will not be amended via the Faculty Senate. Chair Ware and Camie will work on
draft procedures for review at the next meeting.
It was unclear from the recommendations how the committee would be involved in
some of the events (the Annual Author’s Reception, Koch Scholarship, New
Faculty Orientation, and Literacy Training). These issues will have to be addressed
with the new dean.
New Business:
a) Chair Ware met with Dean Allen and went over possible agenda items. The
acquisitions budget will be reviewed at the October meeting. Other items include
discussion on the allocation process –moving towards collection building, and
scholarly communication—rights of authors. Members should communicate other
ideas to Chair Ware.
b) Chair Ware will plan an early communication (October) to the Faculty Senate.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 AM.