MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOARD

Notes of the Meeting of September 22, 2008

P. Cervanka: A. Chowdhury; S. Gater; C. Geiser; M. Janni; J. Kirk, (recording); A. Pasero; J. Peterson; J. Ruff; K. Siebenlist; J. Simmons-Welburn; J. Winters; J. Zanoni

1. Dean Janice Simmons-Welburn called the meeting to order at 3:00pm and welcomed the members of the Board.  Board members then introduced themselves.

2. Update by the Dean of Raynor Memorial Libraries
   1. Libraries Budget Distribution

      Dean Simmons-Welburn distributed a Libraries budget Summary for FY 09 displayed in two pie charts.  Included were the overall budget and the collections budget.  The two charts indicated that the collection budget is significantly larger than all of the other categories combined.

   2. New Head of Research & Instruction Department

      Dean Simmon-Welburn announced that Scott Mandernack has been appointed the Head of the Research & Instruction Department.  Scott is currently the Head of the Hicks Undergraduate Library at Purdue University.

   3. Digital Initiatives Librarian

      Dean Simmon-Welburn announced that Ann Hanlon has been appointed Digital Initiative Librarian.  Ann is now part of the Bibliographic Control Department.  She was Project Archivist for the University of Maryland Libraries.

   4. Libraries’ Committees

      The Dean distributed a list of recently constituted Libraries’ Committees and discussed each Committee.  Following are the names of the Libraries’ Committees: Resources Discovery Committee, the Public Interface Committee, the Institutional Repository Committee, the Scholarly Communication Working Group, and the Assessment Committee.

   5. Libraries’ Website Redesign

      Over next year or two, the Libraries will be redesigning the Libraries’ Webpages with goal of providing a more user friendly and functional site.

   6. New Libraries’ Brochure

      Dean Simmon-Welburn distributed copies of the new Libraries’ Brochure which will be published later in the week.

3. Election of chair

   Dr. Julius Ruff was nominated as Chair of the Board.  There were no other nominations and Dr. Ruff accepted election.

4. New Business
   1. Fifth Annual Research Institute for Faculty

      The topic for the Institute is scholarly communication.  The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the John P. Raynor Memorial Libraries will host the Institute.  The topics covered at the Institute are Open Access: the Revolution in Academic Publishing; Challenges and Opportunities of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Programs; Copyright & the Academy: Faculty as Consumers and Producers of Creative Content; and Life's a Bit: The New Landscape of Information Distribution and Your Research.

   2. A faculty member wondered if the Libraries might have a role in preparing freshman students for such skills as using D2L.  The question was based on the faculty member’s recent experience with a group of freshman.

   3. Assessment

      The Libraries participated in a national assessment process called LibQUAL in 2002 and 2006.  Planning is underway to continue using LibQUAL and/or other assessment tools.  One drawback of LibQUAL is it provides little actionable information.  For example, a finding of both the 2002 and the 2006 surveys was that graduate students were not pleased with the journal collection; however the tool provided few specific titles that could be considered for the collection.  One goal is to obtain more specific indicators for possible execution.

   4. Libraries’ Data

      There was interest in receiving Libraries’ data to aid the Board’s work of advising the Dean of Libraries.  The Dean’s Office will provide the Board with the data and statistics that are available.

5. V. The meeting was adjourned at 3:50pm

cc: Dr. John Pauly
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