§ SAALCK Directors' Meeting
October 24, 1990
Minutes
Present: Larry Besant, President (MSU); Michael Binder (WKU); Gail Kennedy
(for Paul Willis, UK); Judith Niles (for Ralze Dorr, UL); Coy Harmon (MuSU);
Marion Winner (NKU); Karen McDaniel (KSU); Ernest E. Weyhrauch (EKU).
Guest: June Martin (EKU).
The group convened at KLA (Hyatt, Lexington, Ky.) at 1:30 p.m. The minutes
of the April 5, 1990, meeting were approved with one spelling change (Ralze
Doerr to Ralze Dorr).
It was announced that EKU’s Ernest Weyhrauch would be the 1991 Chair of
SAALCK.
AGENDA ITEMS:
Strategic Plan – Discussion then centered on the Strategic Plan for Academic
Libraries which had been presented to the Council of Chief Academic Officers
on October 18th. All agreed that several problems were noted, including: The
presentation was too general and contained misinformation; and the officers
objected to the “strategic plan” label and felt their autonomy and the
authority of institutional budgets were being eroded.
The Director’s agreed that the following steps should be taken:
- In the presentation to the Presidents, Larry Besant (as current SAALCK Chair) should give the presentation if possible; if not, then encourage the CHE to let him be an active participant and respond to questions.
- Larry should speak to Jo Anne Lang a.s.a.p. letting her know that we do not object to the term “Report” replacing “Strategic Plan.”
- That a new “executive summary” of one page-or-so be written to accompany the report.
Re: AMIGOS collection analysis, it was agreed that we should all
cooperate on the “free” analysis of a subject area. Mary Winner (NKU)
was designated to contact AMIGOS to see if they would consider group
evaluation of all SAALCK collections (minus UL, who has already
completed and returned their profile).
Salary Survey – The SAALCK salary survey will be compiled for 1990. The
same tables will be constructed with the same presentation preserved;
the time table for data accumulation will be January/February, 1991.
IPEDS – IPEDS will support a biennial report. SAALCK libraries are
willing to submit IPEDS data annually and CHE may be willing to annually
collect and tabulate the library data. The IPEDS form will be changed in
1992. Larry distributed an early draft copy for the Director’s Academic
Libraries/Data Collection Subcommittee Report which lists several
recommendations for changes/clarifications to the IPEDS form for use by
Kentucky Academic Libraries. Several footnotes, including Kentucky ILLs,
provided and received, are needed for uniformity.
National Conference, Stats. – Larry also attended a national conference
on statistics that was jointly funded by NCLIS and ALA. Martha Robinson
attended for the Council and Larry for KDLA. Among the topics discussed
was the IDEALS system, a program of reporting data to the govt via
floppy disk –to speed accumulation, compilation, and distribution.
Gail Kennedy volunteered to compile annual library statistics for SAALCK
if the Council is unable to do so. (Thank you, Gail!)
Adjournment was at 3:00 p.m.