§ SAALCK Directors' Council Meeting
11:00 a.m., November 11, 2005
University Club
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Attendance:
Carol Diedrichs (Chair), University of Kentucky; Nancy Campbell, Northern Kentucky University; Cherry Berges, (KCTCS); Mike Binder, Western Kentucky University; Carrie Cooper; Eastern Kentucky University; Sheila Stuckey, Kentucky State University; Diane Nichols, University of Louisville; Elsie Pritchard, Morehead State University; Laurene Zaporozhetz, Murray State University; Suzy Palmer, University of Louisville (Collections Committee); Susan Brown, Transylvania University (AICKU); and Anne Abate, GCLC.
Call to Order:
Carol Diedrichs called the meeting to order at 11:08 a.m.
Introductions:
All members introduced themselves.
Minutes from Previous Meetings:
Laurene Zaporozhetz moved to approve the minutes from the July meeting. The motion was seconded by Elsie Pritchard and unanimously approved.
Executive Director's Report:
- Anne distributed a financial update.
- The ARL Workshop was a success, both financially and in content. Carol will write a letter to the ARL Board in support of the training programs they provide. Anne will communicate with ARL about scheduling the four day management workshop in October 2006. She will also talk to them about repeating the three day workshop, perhaps as an ARL sponsored event.
Future Workshops:
- Future workshops were discussed including the something on the Institutional Repositories concept and Marketing the Kentuckiana Digital Library.
- More interest came from something on Kentuckiana Digital Library. Potential audiences include the museums and schools, Kentucky Council on Archives. Cost will be kept low. Potential speakers include: Eric Weig (UK/Kentucky Digital Library), Bob Glass (Centre College), Mary Molinaro (UK), Jennifer Gregory (NKU). This will be scheduled for Spring 2006.
- On the subject of Institutional Repositories, LITA and LAMA both have workshops. It may be possible to co-sponsor this with KLA in the fall. Anne will contact KLA (Laura Davidson at UK Med) to talk about making this into a pre-conference for their fall conference. (See www.solinet.net/workshops for LITA Institute--Establishing an Institutional Repository)
- SAALCK should also put forward a KHECC program on the topic. Anne and Laurene will work on that.
Speakers' Bureau Concept:
- GCLC is moving forward on the development of the joint GCLC/SAALCK speakers' bureau. Glen and Anne should be able to send out a draft of the entry in December.
Report from Collections Committee:
- Suzy reported that the Collections Committee wants to meet with AICKU on a regular basis to explore the future of the relationship and how it might impact consortial deals.
- Suzy and Mary Beth are going to alternate their attendance at the Directors' Meetings.
- Suzy distributed the official FTE count for all SAALCK members. This should be posted on the web site. SAALCK will update and publish the official count every fall.
- The Committee is creating a draft report of all databases held in common.
Mission Review:
- Laurene and Elsie presented a proposed revised Mission for SAALCK: To serve the community of users at Kentucky's colleges and universities by working together to promote and improve library services, technology, and access to knowledge. Laurene made a motion to approve the mission. The motion was seconded by Sheila and passed unanimously.
- Anne will arrange for it to be changed on the web site.
Next Generation Committee:
- As a result of earlier SAALCK discussions, Carol presented a draft charge for a working group to explore the future of the next generation library system and the process for selecting it.
- After consideration, SAALCK will recommend that the existing KYVL committee be expanded as a joint working group between the KYVL Endeavor Consortium, KYVL and SAALCK. SAALCK does not need to form their own committee.
- Laurene suggested that the draft charge be sent to Enid for incorporation into the charge of the working group.
- SAALCK will recommend that the group be expanded to include a public services person as well as others with more than a systems perspective as the working group moves forward. They will also recommend that a visionary consultant be engaged. Carol suggested Karen Calhoun as a potential consultant and she will approach her to discuss some options for a visit to Kentucky to speak on this topic.
- SAALCK also recommends that the current group be tasked to complete its current review and then move on to the larger issue.
Update from VLAC Meeting:
- Carol, Hannelore, Mike, and Laurene are members of VLAC and attended the last meeting.
- The CPE Budget request to the Legislature has been finalized. It includes $4 million for a new or upgraded ILS. The fate of other items, such as an operating budget increase to cover increased database costs is unknown.
- Laurene attended the Kentucky Virtual University Quarterly Forum where they invited the distance learning librarians to participate.
- An Annenberg Foundation proposal was mentioned at the meeting. Carol passed around information about this proposed project.
Report on LMS Networking Meeting:
- A meeting was held on October 10 and several organizations sent representatives.
- There does not appear to be any concern with the direction of this group from the SAALCK perspective.
Report from Meeting with KCTCS Library Directors:
- Carol attended this meeting in September.
- They were interested in opportunities to take training out to their members. They were particularly interested in the Speakers' Bureau that SAALCK is setting up.
- Laurene will talk with the KCTCS representative about helping them with a presentation at their May 18 Conference in Paducah.
Announcements:
- UK is having their Distinguished Author series featuring David Halberstam next week and they are receiving much publicity for it.
- Western is co-sponsoring a series of events surrounding the book including the Southern Kentucky BookFest and the OneBook campaign.
- UofL is celebrating their 2 millionth volume this month with an event at the library. They will be hosting the Elizabeth I exhibit in December. The library received a university grant for an interdisciplinary project on response to the Hurricane (for details, see: http://www.library.louisville.edu/news/mardigras.pdf). The library still hopes to have their addition complete by some time in December.
- Cherry reported that there was a Western Kentucky Book Fair in Paducah this fall.
- Eastern has announced the topic of their SACS reaccreditation: "Critical Thinking and Communication" and the library will be heavily involved in that process. The committee has been assembled to search for the new Dean of Libraries. The library has mounted several tutorials, including one on academic integrity for the university orientation.
- The NKU Friends had a successful author program this month. Arne has successfully defended his dissertation.
- The library director search is underway at KSU.
- Murray State has a new Interim President. The architect has been selected for the renovation of the library.
- Morehead State has a new content management system for their university web pages. A group from UK called POETS (Point of Entry Taskforce) is visiting this month to help review the look of the entry. A pre-renovation committee has been formed.
- Susan Brown reported that AICKU had their meeting recently. Centre College and Union College are both having building projects. Susan will be added to the mailing list.
NetLibrary:
- Eastern, Murray State and Western are interested in a NetLibrary college core collection with a focus on technology and other things students need for papers. Anne will pursue this with NetLibrary.
Next Meeting:
The next meeting date is December 9, 2005 at the University of Louisville (later cancelled and rescheduled for January 6, 2006).
Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 2:38 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anne K. Abate
Executive Director