University Library Information Bulletin

LIB-Sept. 7, 2005 - #E-36

ON THE ARL SERVER (Sept. 5, 2005)
News and Publications
• Library Groups Join ARL, SPARC in Supporting Research Councils UK Proposed Open Access Policy
• SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Sept. 2, 2005
• Call for Nominations: The Paul Evan Peters Award; Deadline: Oct. 6, 2005

Meetings and Professional Development Opportunities
• Registration now open for 2006 LibQUAL+™ survey
• The Future of Government Documents in ARL Libraries, Sept. 8 - 9, 2005, hosted by George Washington University, Washington, DC
• The Future of Government Documents in ARL Libraries, Oct. 6 -7, 2005, hosted by University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
• ARL/OLMS Online Lyceum Course: Licensing Review & Negotiation, Sept. 19 - Oct. 21, 2005
• ARL Membership Meeting, Oct. 26 - 27, 2005
• Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries, Oct. 28, 2005
• New Ways of Listening to Library Users: Tools for Measuring Service Quality, Nov. 4 - 5, 2005, Washington, DC
• See the ARL/OLMS 2005 calendar online

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2005

• Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 07/07/05

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

July 7, 2005

Present:  Mary Case (chair), John Cullars (secretary), Joan Fiscella, Ann Weller, Steve Wiberley, Lisa Zhao.

Case convened the meeting at 1:02 PM.

I.   Finalize agenda

The agenda was amended to include an item on Scholarly Communication TF’s recommendation concerning the American Chemical Society’s proposed legal action against PubChem.  See IV.A New Business.

II. Approval of Minutes of June 8, 2005 Meeting

The Minutes of June 8, 2005 were approved as amended.

III. Old Business

A. Criteria for clinical vs. tenure-track appointments:  The working group of Georgas, Weller, Wiberley, and Zhao circulated the revised draft of tenure-track, clinical track and academic professional guidelines, which incorporated changes suggested by EC at the June meeting.  Wiberley had also shared the draft with P & T chair Pifalo, who raised a number of issues and offered suggestions. After further discussion, the working group will revise the document for discussion by P & T at its first fall meeting.

B. Mentoring Task Force follow-up:  Cullars will give a follow-up report at the July 21 faculty meeting, mentioning the two mentoring workshops conducted by Kathryn Deiss of the MLS Strategic Learning Center and of the creation of the Mentoring Implementation and Evaluation Task Force that he will be chairing. 

D.  Confirm the July 21, 2005 faculty meeting agenda:  Case asked that Cullars

confirm the availability of committee/ task force chairs to give reports at the meeting or that they suggest substitutes if they will not be at the meeting. 

IV. New Business

A. American Chemical Society and PubChem: The American Chemical Society (ACS) is asking the US Congress to prohibit the NIH from competing with Chemical Abstracts with its open access database PubChem.  Case summarized the deliberations and investigations of the Scholarly Communications Task Force as to whether the Library should take action on its own or with broader support from the campus, as reported by  TF chair Blecic.    The whole issue seems to be buried in an appropriations bill in the Senate and may not be worth a battle at this time. The committee reviewed possible implications of the dispute for the cost of ACS-supplied resources and for the information needs of the discipline of chemistry.

B.  Distribution of the faculty roster:  Case distributed the FY06 faculty roster. Fiscella reported her findings based on the Library Bylaws that retirees who return at 50% or below appointment are not entitled to vote at faculty meetings, in faculty elections, and cannot serve on elected faculty committees.

C.  Appointment of P & T librarianship review committees:  Working with the just distributed faculty roster and the list of P & T liaisons to the candidates supplied by Pifalo, EC assembled librarianship review committees to all of the library faculty up for review this year.  Because of the large number of reviews, it proved necessary to have some faculty members both chairing a committee and serving on a second, which is not our normal practice. Case will approach candidates as to whether they wish to exclude any library faculty from their review committees, as stated in the procedures for the reviews.  If there should be any such suggested exclusions, adjustments of the membership of the librarianship review committees might be required.

D.  Review of Procedures for librarianship review committees:  Because there appears to have been some confusion among P & T Committee members about certain aspects of the librarianship reviews, EC decided to review the documentation and to make recommendations for revising the document if appropriate.  Fiscella worked with P & T chair Pifalo to reconcile any discrepancies and to point out any ambiguities for clarification.  They examined one faculty document and one P & T document. Some matters that are more clarifications than substance have already been addressed and voted on by both EC and the library faculty.  One area of substantive uncertainty is whether the final P & T reports should be shared with the candidate or merely summarized by the UL. If the candidate is allowed to see the document, should he or she be given a copy?  Fiscella and Pifalo will continue to work on the document and will refer it to P & T as well. 

Case adjourned the meeting at 3:30 PM.

Respectfully submitted by

John M. Cullars

Faculty Secretary

August 3, 2005;

Approved August 31 2005