LSA Exec - Minutes - June 1, 2017

June 1, 2017 

LSA Executive Committee 

Present:

Marianne Reed, Ann Snow, Leah Hallstrom, Greta Valentine, Sunita Gandhi, Sharon Riley 

1. Approve minutes from May 8th LSA meeting 

∙ Approved unanimously as written 

2. Discussion of LSA Exec annual report 

∙ Looked at annual report template and edited it as a group 

∙ Added some of the discussion points in the section below to the report for incoming group to  look at 

3. Staff participation in governance 

∙ Did not have enough participation until we personally recruited nominees 

∙ Will likely not have enough participation until staff and supervisors can see value in it ∙ What ways has governance been successful this year? Could we share some stories? o Staff don’t have to attend meetings not pertinent to them 

o Staff have a voice (via submission form, staff body) 

o General meetings helped fulfill requests from people to know what their colleagues are  doing 

∙ Could we bring back more things like governance orientation lunch? Community/social activities  in general? People don’t know governance candidates and are hesitant to vote for them or vote  at all 

∙ Need to find more ways to articulate what we do, and why 

∙ Could we fund a governance lunch or some kind of social event? 

∙ Could we include biographies of candidates in governance elections? 

∙ Could we bring back KULSA (or at least form a partnership?) Return to Who’s Who in the Library  or something similar? 

∙ Could we do a focus group with staff to figure out why people aren’t voting in governance  elections? 

∙ Potentially confusing that the voting message came from a faculty member on  Nominating & Ballot 

∙ Could include Kevin at an LSA meeting in the future to cultivate a better relationship 

Action Items: 

∙ Greta: provide some wording to clarify role of the secretary in the Code 

∙ Greta: Schedule one more meeting before June 12 to finish up annual report ∙ Marianne: Will share results of LSA election; will get these from Betsaida on June 2