LIBRARY FACULTY ASSEMBLY (LFA) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING NOTES

July 19, 2019

First meeting of FY 2019-2020

Present:

• Betsaida Reyes - Chair
• Brian Rosenblum - Vice-chair/Chair Elect
• Erin Wolfe - Secretary
• Fran Devlin - Representative (Librarian rank)
• Sarah Goodwin Thiel - Representative (Associate Librarian rank)
• Josh Bolick - Representative (Assistant Librarian rank)
• Carmen Orth-Alfie (via Zoom) - Member at Large

Opening

Meeting commenced and general introductions for new members

Discussion of the question whether someone can hold roles in multiple committees: consensus is that this is okay to do.

Overview of work in the near future

No special charge for this group at this time.

Budig Awards

Discussion about upcoming awards and ongoing concerns/suggestions around receiving enough nominees (minimum is two per award).

Will wait until current round is complete and review how the process goes, after which we will work with N&B committee to see how it may be improved. Suggestions have included:

• Supervisors and/or previous winners can have more active role in nominations
• Suggestion that annual evaluations might be an opportunity to advance as award nominations
• Change requirements for award(s) to allow for only one nominee (current wording states awards must be competitive)
• More active solicitation of nominees by committee members
• Include a liaison between LFA/LFSA Exec and awards committees (in the past, exec was more involved in the awards process than is currently the case)

Meeting with the Dean

Betsaida and Brian reviewed their meeting with Dean Smith (7/12/2019)

• Insurance rates for library staff may change
• Upcoming merit raises for library staff are still in discussion
• KU-wide base salary increase for staff earning less than $30k
• When serving as “instructor of record”, courses will now be described under the Professional Performance section rather than Service in Promotion and Tenure candidate documents

LFA/LFSA Committees

Fran Devlin will serve as liaison to Library Committee on Promotion and Tenure (LCPT)

Brian Rosenblum will serve as liaison to Sabbatical Leave and Post-Tenure Review Committee

Either Erin Wolfe or Carmen Orth-Alfie may serve as liaison to Salary and Benefits (S&B) Committee. Since this is an LFSA committee, need to confer with LFSA exec.

Carmen reviewed S&B Committee's FY 2018-19 Special Charge around creating a gender pay equity study for the Libraries. This work is ongoing - a library-wide survey will be send in the Fall and the results given to LFSA Exec Committee to determine next steps. The suggestion was made that the 2018-19 committee be retained as an ad-hoc committee to complete the survey. Betsaida will talk to LSA Chair to get confirmation that this is okay.

Next steps

Betsaida will set regular monthly LFA meetings, generally scheduling two weeks after Chair and Vice- chair meet with the Dean.

Betsaida will schedule the Fall General Assembly (needs to work around Dean's schedule, LSA General Assembly, and LFSA General Assembly).

Continue ongoing discussion about possibly reducing the size of Exec committee from 7 to 5. Consider a vote for the Fall General Assembly to allow for the change to take place for FY 2020-21.

Exec committee has web site presence and Sharepoint site. Betsaida and Erin will meet with Matt Torres to ensure content is being appropriately added.