LFA Exec - Minutes - October 22, 2025

LFA Executive Committee Meeting     
October 22, 2025   

11:00 AM -12:00 PM  

   

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

  

Absent: N/A  

  

Minutes:    

 

  • Welcome  
  • Approve minutes from 9/17 LFA Exec Meeting [link]  
    • No changes  
    • Scott motioned to approve, Elspeth seconded, motion carried 
  • Liaison reports:  
    • LCPT (Elspeth)  
    • Not a ton of news to report outside of the criteria doc we are reviewing  
    • Asked Jill for clarification on the point for Assembly on number for SLPTR while leaving LCPT number as is. Jill confirmed that is correct. She also suggested we look at the number of full librarians and how much of an anticipated problem it will be for the coming years. Josh updated the topic with this clarification on the Assembly doc  
    • SLPTR (Scott)  
    • They held a post-tenure review info meeting, so Scott checked in to see if they have enough people to do post tenure review adequately without having a special election. Scott will confirm that is an accurate understanding.  
    • Ad Hoc Committee for Review of PT Criteria (Elspeth)  
    • Path ahead is there will be three focus groups. Courtney will be facilitating. The first is scheduled with pre-tenure cohort group. The other two will be open. The goal is to seek input from the body and then having any changes go to ballot in the winter if there are any changes.  
    • University Senate Library Committee (Josh)  
    • Haven’t met yet. The first meeting is scheduled for 10/28th. Josh asked for about 10 minutes on the agenda to talk about Open Access with the committee 
    • Carol has been considering what things to prioritize—budget and staff are on her list 
    • LSA (Josh)  
    • Focused on fall assembly preparation right now 
    • UAKU (Scott)  
    • Not much to report beyond what gets mailed out. Meetings are scheduled.  
  • Report on LFA Chair and Vice Chair/Chair Elect meeting 10/16/25 meeting with Dean (Josh and Elspeth)  
    • Provost stepping down—Carol didn’t have much to add beyond the public info.  
    • Internal search for succession are in planning  
    • Carol has a meeting with provost soon: IT staffing and getting in front of CFO to talk about Libraries Budget on Carol’s agenda  
    • Updated Carol on the Ad Hoc PT plan of groups  
    • Talked about what we want Carol to speak about at the Fall Assembly  
    • Budget—no real updates to talk on at Assembly 
    • Carol mentioned concerns about culture and current environment eroding culture advances made 
    • We could also provide her a prompt on what to speak on as well. Josh asked for any suggestions from the LFA exec.  
    • Elspeth suggested talking about how to evaluate work, so we aren’t just doing things that aren’t aligned with strategic plan and what people enjoy in their work. This is something leadership team is already doing this kind of work.  
    • Josh asked that we all keep thinking about prompts to give Carol, and communicate them as we come up with them.  
    • She mentioned on reevaluating our consortia memberships and there might be radical changes on the horizon. The timetable is over the next 2 years.  
  • Updates to priorities for FY26  
    • Eval reform (Josh)  
      • Josh met with Mike and has given him the revised reforms  
      • Need to schedule a couple of open virtual info sessions in partnership with Mike Broadwell to preview and answer questions  
      • Ad Hoc PT Guidelines (placeholder; update provided in liaison reports above)  
    • LFA Assembly Agenda (Josh and Elspeth)  
    • Topics for LFA Fall Assembly.docx  
    • Reviewed the draft agenda linked above  
      • Discussed if we needed to add a UAKU liaison report to the agenda. Josh is going to reach out to Amalia to gather her thoughts and see if she wanted to provide an update to the Assembly  
      • Discussed if we need to have a code change to add UAKU liaison on the agenda for Assembly. Determined that at this time we keep it as an ad hoc basis and not address a code change at this time. Move to the end of year to reevaluate  
      • Discussed that the largest part of the meeting will be suggested code changes  
    • SLPTR change on number—Josh will go over this at the meeting. Elspeth will review the number of eligible membership of the pool of those who can serve.  
    • LCPT Academic Appointments in the University Libraries (via Jill)  
      • Proposed Revisions  
      • Will discuss at meeting and then we will vote on if we want to take it to ballot. Elspeth will tell LCPT to bring a clean version of the revisions to the Assembly meeting  
      • Josh asked that LFA exec review and provide feedback by Oct. 29.  
    • Decision made to reorder the agenda order of code changes to easier items first 
  • Any other business?  
    • Question raised as to if we need to do language on SLPRT change at Assembly. Plan is to make the suggest as we have it (Josh will check with Jill to ensure that is right).  
      • If there is a lot of disapproval we have the suggestion to change to one less full librarian member on SLPTR, but keep numbers the same as an alternative suggestion, but not making at this time  
  • Conclude  
    • Elspeth motioned to adjourn, Angie seconded, motion carried