LFA Exec - Minutes - January 14, 2026

LFA Executive Committee Meeting      
January 14, 2026 

10:00 AM -11:00 AM   

Attending: Josh Bolick (Chair), Elspeth Healey (Vice Chair), Amanda Schlumpberger (Secretary), Scott McEathron, Angie Rathmel, Samantha Bishop Simmons, Jon Giullian, Adrienne Sanders 

Absent:    N/A

• Welcome 
• Approve minutes from 12/16 LFA Exec Meeting [link] 
  • Elspeth made a minor edit. 
  • Motion to approve: Scott
  • Second: Elspeth
  • Motion carries 
• Liaison reports: 
  • LCPT (Elspeth) 
    • Completed Ad hoc reviews, 6 PTTR candidates. 
  • SLPTR (Scott) 
    • They are currently doing the post-tenure review process, anticipated completion is end of Feb. 
  • Ad Hoc Committee for Review of PT Criteria (Elspeth & Josh) 
    • No responses to survey after the focus group sessions 
    • They will compile recommendations and then schedule a special meeting to discuss those recs. 
  • University Senate Library Committee (Josh) 
    • In process of identifying priorities 
  • LSA (Josh) 
    • They are meeting later this week. Otherwise, no new action
  • UAKU (Scott) 
    • Things are at a crucial point, especially in regard to salary and benefit negotiations 
    • Strongly encouraged to be aware of what is happening
    • Noon to 1:30 on 1/21 on Wescoe beach 
    • Proposal for 1% is for the remainder of FY 26
    • They are also talking about tenure, evaluations, and post-tenure review – we will need to change our processes and docs as this goes through
    • Proposal for post-tenure review is to change from 7 year to 5 year intervals
    • Discussion about classification of library faculty pay structure as 9 month versus 12 month. Conversations happening around using 9 month to calculate minimum salaries. 
    • Question raised about if salary ranges for librarians are listed publicly anywhere. We were not aware of any. 
• Report on LFA Chair and Vice Chair/Chair Elect 1/13/26 meeting with Dean (Josh and Elspeth) 
  • Provided Carol with updates on evals and ad hoc PT cmte
  • Told her that we would work with Brooke for Spring Assembly meeting date 
  • Fall Assembly: Carol was concerned by the language in LCPT policy changes. That has been clarified with Carol 
  • Salaries: 
    • Scott M. expressed concerns about stagnation for rank faculty and staff in light of university admin and library leadership team (LT) raises. 
    • Data shared for LFA exec review. There are some errors in the data, but it is approx. correct 
    • Optics and principle of raises for LT is the discussion. Raises came from inside the library’s budget 
    • Asked Carol to explain 
    • Carol pointed out that UAKU is the primary context for[AR1]  faculty salary conversation.
      • Action item: Josh will bring up the 9 versus 12 month classification issue and what it does to salary to Carol[AR2] 
    • She also followed up with data for the lowest paid and equity adjustments that have occurred in recent years 
    • Factors include salary adjustments as part of retention offers. [AR3] 
    • Some raises resulted from leadership titles adjustments that created automatic raises, and then additional adjustments followed addressing inequity for those automatic adjustments created in leadership. 
    • Carol shared[AR4]  that this is part of strategy to get things adjusted across the board
    • There was mention of new leadership opportunities through careful reorg to provide more pay increase opportunities. The issue there is that not everyone can be a leadership/admin position and that can’t be the only path to pay increase for everyone.[AR5] 
    • Josh suggested that there is a need for a forum to share this info and create transparency for everyone. 
    • There is impatience for faculty waiting for the raises. 
  • What actions will LFA Exec. Take regarding salaries moving forward from this meeting: 
    • Dialogue between faculty/staff and leadership needs to be a priority. We want transparency. Carol had concerns about how productive an open meeting would be. She is interested in hearing from us on what the most productive way to have this conversation would be. So, we should share ideas on how to have this conversation. 
    • For now: we will stay in touch via email to determine next steps 
    • We also need to have a concentrated effort to get library focus groups in the Union to have some of these conversations 
• Updates to priorities for FY26 
  • Eval reform (done)
    • Josh considers this work complete, but there will be a debrief with Carol after the fact. 
  • Ad Hoc PT Guidelines (placeholder; update provided in liaison reports above) 
    • Updated above in minutes
• LFA Assembly Action Items 
  • Minutes: LFAassembly_minutes2025.11.17.docx 
  • Actions to keep track coming out of the LFA Assembly meeting: 
    • LCPT new standing charge to be sent to ballot: “When requested by the Dean of Libraries, review new-hire faculty files to determine if awarding tenure and/or elevated rank is appropriate.” 
      • Carol had concern about this language, but it is approved language and is going to ballot. She will have approval after that. 
    • Plan to assist Nominating & Ballot re: strategic selection of candidates for service on faculty committees (in particular) 
    • In spring: work with LCPT towards next steps for proposed revisions to Academic Appointments in University Libraries document 
    • Schedule Spring Assembly (April/May) 
• Any other business? 
  • See above minutes on salary discussion
  • Angie: for next time, discuss bringing law library faculty (and staff) more integrated to library, including intranet access, kulib-l access, etc. 
• Conclude 
  • meeting adjourned at 11:07