MINUTES OF THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD
February 28, 2007
Dr. Chris Mitchell, Chair, convened the meeting at 4:05 p.m., in Dean�s Conference Room, 4515.
Present:� �Mary Claire Browne, Terri Fredrick, Linda Ghent, Sam Guccione, Peggy Holmes Layman, Karla Kennedy-Hagen, Chris Mitchell, Frances Murphy, Tom Nelson, Brent Walker and Dean Lanham
Not Present:� Jose Deustua, Ann Fritz, Linda Loy, and Marina Marjanovic
The minutes from the January 24, 2007 meeting were approved as submitted.
Communications were received from Monty Bennett, Jose R.
Deustua and Ann Fritz regarding their inability to attend today�s meeting. ��
A book for the One Book,
Dr. Lanham suggested that this program would hopefully
provide a larger audience for future One Book,
Welcome
A presentation was made
by Dean Lanham and Nackil Sung, Head of Library Technology Services about the Art & Architecture in Illinois Libraries
grant.� The grant was an LSTA grant from
the Illinois State Library, using federal monies that are available to
libraries and museums.� It is a very
competitive grant process in which the library has to justify the project need
and come up with a sound plan to address that need.� The purpose of the Art & Architecture
grant was to develop an online database showing the resources of art and
architecture in
This project has propelled the postcard collection at Booth Library, increasing the size from 1000 to 4000.� Dean Lanham has recently submitted a grant to digitize the postcard collection.�
A draft of the 2007-2008 library calendar was reviewed.� After review, the Board was asked to let the Administration office know of any additions or corrections before the next meeting of the Board in April.��
The traveling exhibit, Farm
Life: A Century of Change for Farm Families and Their
Neighbors: NEH on the Road, while not promoted on the grand scale of the Frankenstein and
Dr. Lanham advised the Board that he received a notice from the Graduate Student Council asking the Circulation Policy Committee to revisit the Circulation Policy with regard to the length of time graduate students may check out books.� Currently, they have the same checkout period as undergraduates-a period of four weeks.� Faculty has 16 weeks, and graduate students want eight weeks.�
Collections Issues
Six Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) grant proposals have been submitted for:� Popular Expressions of the Arts; Indigenous Populations; Impact of Technology on Higher Education; Music Education: Jazz; Health Sciences: Nursing, Special Education; and Communication Disorders.� If all of these grants are funded it would mean $20,000 to $25,000 of new monies to increase our collection. �This is just another way Booth Library seeks to enhance the available appropriated budget for collection development.
Planning Issues
Booth Library�s Planning Goals and Objectives for FY09 were distributed.� Dean Lanham advised that these goals are the same as last year due to the fact that Eastern will have a new president during fiscal year 2009, and it is expected that the new president may have a different planning goal for the University.
The Library Periodical and Standing Order Review process has begun. On February 4, 2007, the periodical list was provided to the Departmental Library Coordinators for review and comment.� This process will end the first week of March.� Dr. Lanham stressed that the Library is not just canceling journals; this process is just a scholarly review of journal lists for each department to decide which journals they wish to continue receiving.� The Acquisition Services department will post the list of journals being cancelled on the Library�s website in case another department wishes to pick up the cost of maintaining a particular journal, or, perhaps joining with another department and sharing the cost to continue the subscription.
Dean Lanham invited Board members to attend the library day
rally in
At the next meeting, Ann Brownson, Reference Librarian who
oversees the
The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 p.m.�
Respectfully submitted by:
Christine Derrickson, Recording Secretary