Library Administrative Affairs Committee
LAAC
04/05:06
(The
following minutes have not been approved)
28 March
2005
11:00
a.m.
Room
132F
Present: Juliet Kerico
(Chair), Elizabeth Lorenzen, Myrna McCallister (Ex-Officio),
Christopher Mehrens, Margaret Pearman
(Support Staff Representative)
I. Call
to order and approval of agenda
At 11:05
a.m. the meeting was called to order by J. Kerico and
the agenda was
approved.
II. Approval of minutes
The minutes November 11, 2004,
December 16, 2004, and February 28, 2005 were approved.
III. Old
Business
A. Library
Calendar
The
committee recommended that the Library Calendar be forwarded to LFA
for approval.
B.
A message
was sent to Melony Sacopulos
about this policy. In this communiqué,
it was indicated that if we did not hear from her, that this would indicate
tacit approval and that the policy would be informally implemented until
otherwise advised. As no response was
forthcoming, it was recommended that the policy be implemented.
C. Library Emergency Handbook (C. Mehrens & K. Gaul)
C. Mehrens reported that his subcommittee had met and had
arrived at a number of recommendations in light of recent changes made at the
library. Because of the size of the
document, and the number of changes, he suggested that it be placed in the
administrative office to the entire committee to examine before the next
meeting.
IV. New
Business.
A. LAAC Areas of Responsibility. Response to charges 5-01, 5-10, and 5-11 for LAAC
annual report.
In light of responses at the LFA
meeting with respect to concerns raised by LAAC committee members, these issues
were again revisited. C. Mehrens expressed concern that the committee was being
asked to deal with old “procedures.” He
indicated that it was his belief that this charge fell outside of the purview
of the committee. He noted that
according to the By-Laws of the Library Faculty Constitution, the purpose of
the committee is to be kept “apprised of administrative policies and procedures,”
which will be conveyed to the larger body of the LFA. He indicated that he interpreted this as
being restricted to “new” administrative policies or procedures to be enacted.
He also said that further clarification may be called for with respect to this opinion.
B. Other
Business
1. None.
V. The next
meeting of LAAC will take place on Monday, April 25, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. in the
administrative conference room.
VI. The meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted, Christopher E. Mehrens, LAAC Secretary