§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
SAALCK Director's Meeting
Minutes
February 11, 1985
Directors Present: Martha Bowman, Reg Laswell (rep. W.K.U.), Coy Harmon, Paul Willis, Don Lyons, and June Martin (rep. E.E. Weyrauch, E.K.U.)
The SAALCK Directors met briefly with the Acquisition Subcommittee members during the meeting at Elizabethtown Community College. Because of the impending bad weather, a decision was made to work through the agenda items without a lunch break. The Subcommittee members then were excused to begin their work on reviewing the clearinghouse proposal.
(In the absence of the Secretary, E. Weyrauch, J. Martin was asked to record the minutes of the meeting.)
The minutes of December 3, 1984, were approved as distributed. M. Bowman was complimented on the brevity and conciseness of those minutes.
The "By-Laws of the State Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky (SAALCK)" were then reviewed for further revisions. Several changes were recommended, and will be incorporated into the final document. The SAALCK Directors subsequently unanimously approved the adoption of the By-Laws.
Discussion then centered around the necessity of reactivating other Subcommittees. M. Rutledge had been particularly interested in seeing the reactivation of the Interlibrary Loan Subcommittee and procedures for direct borrowing. In her absence, P. Willis mentioned that it helps to know other personnel when transacting i.l.l. procedures. J. Martin noted that this also is true for implementing the SAALCK reciprocal borrower's agreement and that – in addition – individual institution's policies had not been shared in the last two or three years. It was decided, therefore, that arrangements should be made for Circulation and I.L.L. librarians to meet at the Spring KLA/ALS Conference. A decision could be made at that time about reactivating the two subcommittees. The Board unanimously approved this recommendation.
It was also noted that serials librarians might wish to meet at the Fall KLA. The topic for discussion would be the present KULS system as to whether it is efficiently performing its function or whether there exists a need to pursue other avenues for a union list of serial holdings. This group could then report at the Spring 1986 Conference.
Agenda item #5 "Networking – governance issues" originally was to have been presented by Earl Wassom, who retired January 31. P. Willis therefore updated the group on the project's progress.
The proposed By-Laws currently are in the developmental stage, and possibly will be ready for dissemination and discussion soon. The network is to be chartered as a non-profit organization, patterned roughly along the lines of SOLINET, with a charge to members for services sold – and not membership fees. The governance board will most likely be composed of approximately 12 individuals, with a view toward representation of all types of libraries. Additional discussion ended with P. Willis volunteering to keep the Board informed of future progress.
Item #6 "fines/fees – state wide system" was tabled as Faye Belcher was unable to attend.
The suggestion was made and accepted that for future meetings, each agenda item contain a short synopsis of the issues to be discussed and the presenter's name.
D. Lyons then shared a recent survey on librarian's salaries which he had conducted. He hopes to use it at K.S.U. to help upgrade the salaries there. (See attachment).
At this point, the Acquisition Subcommittee returned to the group. Scott Bullard, spokesperson, reviewed changes which the group wished to implement in the proposal for the clearinghouse. After some discussion on the project, it was suggested that the clearinghouse be housed at the various institutions on a rotating basis. Western Kentucky University volunteered to be the initial repository. The guidelines for the clearinghouse were unanimously approved, with implementation to begin as soon as the request form could be structured and mailed.
It was noted by the Directors that this project represents a positive step toward the plan for "cooperation" which the Prichard study has recommended.
The Board decided to meet again at the Spring KLA/ALS Conference in April – the exact date and time will be decided later. The meeting adjourned at 12:32 p.m.
SAALCK
Salary Survey
January, 1985
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Minimum salary presently being offered to library faculty members joining your faculty.staff.
$18,000 Northern Kentucky University 16,500 Murray State University 16,000 Eastern Kentucky University 16,000 University of Kentucky 15,000 Morehead State University 15,000 University of Louisville 13,500 Kentucky State University 15,714 AVERAGE -
Minimum salary presently being paid to a library faculty member if different from the minimum salary being offered.
$17,340 Northern Kentucky University 17,000 Murray State University 16,458 University of Louisville 16,000 Eastern Kentucky University 16,000 University of Kentucky 15,000 Morehead State University 13,635 Kentucky State University 15,919 AVERAGE -
Average salary of the library faculty excluding the Library Director/Dean;
$26,042* University of Louisville 22,741 Northern Kentucky University 21,690 Murray State University 20,916** University of Kentucky 19,850 Eastern Kentucky University 19,000 Morehead State University 17,030 Kentucky State University 21,038 AVERAGE
*Includes Heads of Public and Technical Services and profession school librarians.
**Excluding Law and Medical Professional Librarians
(Note: To-Date, Western Kentucky University has not forwarded its salary information)
DWL
2/11/85