Committee on the Code - Annual Report - 2024-2025

Library Governance Committee Final Report 

 

Fiscal Year: 2024 – 2025

 

Committee Name: LFSA Committee on the Code and Bylaws

 

Committee Chair: Christen Caton

 

Members (with terms): 

 

• Eve Wolynes [2023-2025] 

 

• Victoria Williams [2023-2025] 

 

• Christen Caton [2023-2025] 

 

• Brian Moss, LFSA-Executive Liaison [2024-2025] 

 

Standing Charges:

  • Reviews the University of Kansas Libraries Code of Governance, as well as any proposed  amendments to ensure that all sections and parts conform to the stated purposes of the  LFSA, LSA, and LFA.
  • Upon request of any member or committee conveyed through the LFA or LSA Executive Committees, renders interpretive decisions as to the meaning of a particular section or part of the Code.
  • Forwards recommendations and decisions to the respective LFA or LSA Executive Committees. 

 

Standing Charges Progress/Accomplishment Summary:

  • The committee was called upon to interpret Article III, Section IV of the Code on the creation of new standing committees and to advise about whether a ballot measure was required, or merely a simple majority of the quorum attending the next LSA meeting.
  • The committee was called upon to interpret Article IV, Section III on the minimum and maximum number of members necessary for a committee.

 

Special Charges: 

  • The committee was charged to update the Code document to reflect changes to the language of the code to distinguish that the University Senate Committee on Libraries ex officio members are elected, rather than appointed (approved by a vote of the LSA membership on 06/25/2024).
  • The committee was charged to update the Code document to reflect the establishment of the LSA Talent Development Committee, (approved by ballot measure of the LSA membership on 12/19/2024).

 

Special Charges Progress/Accomplishment Summary: 

  • Not applicable.

Other Activities or Accomplishments:

  • Not applicable.

Potential Charges for Future Committees/Recommendations:

Review a draft of the Code submitted by this group dated 6/23/25 named KULGC_UpdatedDecember2024_with_proposed_LSA_Talent_Development_Committee_language.docx, that includes suggested language for amending the Code to describe the new Committee created by the vote on 12/19/24, to see if the language needs revision or to be voted on to accept once the committee begins work.