LFA Exec - Minutes - February 28, 2020

LIBRARY FACULTY ASSEMBLY (LFA) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING NOTES

February 28, 2020

Present:

  • Betsaida Reyes – Chair
  • Brian Rosenblum - Vice-chair/Chair Elect
  • Erin Wolfe - Secretary
  • Fran Devlin - Representative (Librarian rank)
  • Sarah Goodwin Thiel - Representative (Associate Librarian rank)
  • Josh Bolick – Representative (Assistant Librarian rank)
  • Carmen Orth-Alfie - Member at Large

Agenda:

  1. Approval of minutes of previous LFA Exec meeting (1/31/2020)
  2. Report from LFSA exec. meeting (2/17/2020)
  3. Report on meeting with Dean Smith (2/13/2020)
  4. Report from the Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site
  5. Results of LFA ballot to reduce LFA exec. membership from seven to six.
  6. Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports
  7. New business

Opening

Minutes previous LFA Exec meeting (1/31/2020) were approved with one spelling correction.

Report from LFSA exec. meeting (2/17/2020)

Report from the Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site

Sara Morris reported on ad-hoc committee on the website/Sharepoint

  • Recommendation that LFA/LFSA presence on Sharepoint be removed, with the exception of LCPT (confidentiality).
  • Committee will reach out to past secretaries to get missing minutes, documentation, etc.
  • Committee wants to have a three year term (renewable) for a webmaster position to oversee the management of the website.
  • Will need an LFSA meeting to approve, as it will need a change to the code.
  • A final report will be produced, ideally before the LFSA Spring meeting

Other business

LFSA exec will meet again in March.

Report on meeting with Dean Smith (2/13/2020)

  • They discussed an Analytic and Institutional Reporting (AIR) (formerly OAIP) report about equity. This is a confidential report that will not likely be shared.
    • This does not include library faculty. Library faculty has never been included in this reporting by the University.
    • They found no statistically significant difference between salary equity for faculty by gender.
    • This is separate from the recent Provost funding that resulted in library salary increases by gender. The methodology of this distribution of funds is still unclear.
  • Re: ongoing discussion of morale
    • KU’s turnover is lower (on average) than other research institutions (based on self- reporting in an online discussion)
    • General attrition and overall reduction of staff may contribute to lower morale (e.g. more work for everybody)
  • Beginning FY21, professional development compensation for faculty will increase by $500. Additional funding will be made available for staff on request.

Results of LFA ballot to reduce LFA exec. membership from seven to six.

  • 28 positive votes, none against - ballot passed

Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports

  • CRSA has approved 13 LRF funding proposals.

Action items

  • Need to schedule a date for the LFA General Spring meeting (Betsaida)