MINUTES OF THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD
April 4, 2007
Dr. Chris Mitchell, Chair, convened the meeting at 4:02 p.m., in Dean�s Conference Room, 4440.
Present:� �Mary Claire Browne, Jose Deustua, Terri Fredrick, Linda Ghent, Peggy Holmes Layman, Keith Kohanzo, Chris Mitchell, Frances Murphy, Brent Walker and Dean Lanham
Not Present:� Ann Fritz, Sam Guccione, Karla Kennedy-Hagan, Linda Loy, and Marina Marjanovic
The minutes from the February 28, 2007 meeting were approved as submitted.
Communications were received from Sam Guccione, Karla
Kennedy-Hagen and Monty Bennett regarding their inability to attend today�s
meeting. ��Communication was also
received from Linda Loy resigning from the Board due to additional departmental
responsibilities.� The Faculty Senate
will appoint her replacement.
A draft copy of Booth Library�s calendar for 2007-2008 was reviewed and discussed.� Dean Lanham asked for comments from the Board regarding the issue of closing the library on Friday afternoons in the summer like the rest of campus.� Some felt it was not necessary to remain open as many summer students were non-traditional and would probably use their home town libraries.� Also, students generally have their own computers and can access the internet and resources from home.� And, summer seminar classes are often held Friday evenings when the library is already closed so that would not affect closing at noon.� Dean Lanham thanked the Board for its feedback; he has previously believed that it was essential for Booth Library to remain open Friday afternoons even though the rest of campus was closed so that students would have a place to study, meet, or check their email.� That opinion could change if the Friday afternoon gate count continues to fall.
The positions of chair and vice-chair for next year were up for election.� Nominated for chair was Peggy Holmes Layman and for vice-chair was Karla Kennedy-Hagen.� As no other nominations were made, a motion was made, seconded and carried to elect Peggy Holmes Layman as chair and Karla Kennedy-Hagen as vice-chair.
Welcome
Dean Lanham thanked the Board for their service this year and presented each member with a Booth Library commemorative coaster.
A presentation was made
by Ann Brownson, Reference Librarian and education bibliographer about the library�s
Booth Library received on March 27, 2007 an award of $2,000 and a plaque from the Association of College and Research Libraries for Best Practices in Marketing for our Frankenstein exhibit.� The $2,000 will be used in future programming and public relations programs.
During National Library Week, April 16-20, 2007, discussion groups
will be held for the 2007 One Book,
The discussion of the One Book,
The Council of Graduate Students requested and the Circulation Policy Committee has reviewed 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.� Dean Lanham has endorsed their request for an 8-week loan period.�
In addition, the Council on Graduate Studies has approved a request from Booth Library for a non-credit thesis course starting in the fall term allowing continuous access to library resources for all students working on their thesis.�
Collections Issues
We are completing our third year of funding for the CATS PIE Grant.� Booth Library has used the funds to help pay for JSTOR.� Statistics show that the number of people using JSTOR has dramatically increased over the years.� In 2005, there were only 304 electronic searches.� That figure jumped to 48,000 in 2006 and so far in 2007 there have been over 46,000 searches.� Articles download have gone from 3,000 to 16,000.� The CATS Advisory Council is canceling this grant program so the library will need to find another source of funds to pay for these electronic resources.
Planning Issues
Dean Lanham reviewed the �Periodical Titles Recommended for Cancellation as of March 19, 2007� document with the board.� These print titles for the most part, are represented in electronic formats.� If the library receives the periodical electronically, then it is canceling the print copy more and more.� The electronic version, in most cases, is more expensive than the print, but provides many more advantages.�
Dean Lanham invited Board members to attend the Illinois
Library Day activities in
The meeting was adjourned at 5:06 p.m.�
Respectfully submitted by:
Christine Derrickson, Recording Secretary