Nominating and Ballot - Minutes - April 6, 2021
Nominating and Ballot Committee meeting #3
April 6, 2021, 1:30 – 2:00 via Teams
Present:
Jim Richey (on 1st of 2 year term), Sunita Gandhi (Chair, on 2nd of 2 year term), Lars Leon (Secretary, on 1st of 2 year term)
Agenda:
Our timeline we worked out - Goal is to have elections completed May 17. Giving everyone two weeks to vote ballot out by May 3. Leaves us almost 4 weeks to build ballots. First call for nominations will go out 4/6 to kulib-l with a reminder around 4/13. N&B will meet again on 4/13 to see what we need to do related to individual proactive reaching out, etc. Big thanks to LSA Exec for hosting a government info session on 4/7 which should help. At least one N&B member will be on the Zoom.
How do we know who is eligible?
Faculty: Lars has a list of library faculty with library and some campus service from the last few years.
USS/UPS: Sunita will check with Mike to see if the shared list she shared has all LSA members: List of LSA Members on Sharepoint
1) We reviewed what we need to do for our election. See timeline above.
Libraries Committee on Promotion and Tenure (LCPT)
Continuing: Monroe-Gulick (Librn, 2019-2022), Reyes (Assoc., 2020-2023)
Need election: 3 positions for three-year terms (replacing Brooks-Kieffer, Husic, Ito). At least 2 must be at the Librarian rank. One can be at Associate rank. All with either tenure or having completed their probationary period.
Sabbatical Leave and Post-Tenure Review Committee
Continuing: Schulte (2020-2022), Goodwin Thiel (2020-2022)
Need election: 3 positions for two-year terms (replacing Albin, Currie, McEathron). All faculty, either tenured or having completed their probationary period.
LFA Executive Committee
Continuing: Angie Rathmel (FY22 Chair replacing Brian Rosenblum)
Need election:
Vice-chair/chair-elect (two-year term replacing Angie Rathmel)
Secretary (1 year term replacing Karna Younger)
Assistant librarian representative (1 year term replacing L.Marie Avila)
Associate librarian representative (1 year term replacing Elspeth Healey)
Librarian representative (1 year term replacing Scott McEathron)
LSA Executive Committee
Continuing: Mary Raple (FY22 Chair replacing Chris Bohling)
Need election:
Vice-chair/chair-elect (two-year term replacing Mary Raple)
Secretary (1 year term replacing Rebecca Schroeder)
Member at large (1 year term replacing Meghan Misenhelter)
Member at large (1 year term replacing Sharon Riley)
Member at large (1 year term replacing Julie Woodrick)
Members at Large can be anybody in LSA. Try to reach out to different depts. Try to include new staff to get feeling of
2) Next steps
2a) Lars email kulib-l nominations and self-nominations needed today. Ultimate deadline is April 26. (but we’ll have internal deadlines). Nominations should go to Jim, Sunita, and Lars. Focus only on positions (won’t list names like above, etc.)
2b) Lars send reminder afternoon of April 12 while thanking those who have responded. 2c) See how responses go around April 13. N&B check in with each other and see what need to do. Note: Jim better times to meet between 10 and 11:30 and 2 to 4 in afternoon. Sunita will send us mtg invite.
Note: ACRL is the week of April 12. 20+ library people are attending.
Actions
What
By whom
By when
Draft email invite to go out 4/6. Share with Jim and Sunita then send out revised to kulib-l.
Lars
today
Share LFA spreadsheet
Lars
Wed 4/7 morn.
Checkif SharePt LSA list is up to date
Sunita
today
Review draft meeting minutes and reply by Thursday. If not possible, can slip to next week).
Chris, Sunita,
Jim
Thursday noon*
Upload approved meeting #3 minutes
Lars
Within 1 day of approval
Set up Qualtrics (Jon G. and Brian R. have experience with it) get some help. Can they show us how to do this?
Jim
Schedule a N&B mtg for around Apr 13
Sunita