LFA Exec - Minutes - March 27, 2020

LIBRARY FACULTY ASSEMBLY (LFA) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING NOTES

March 27, 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 - Member at Large

Agenda:

  1. Approval of minutes of previous LFA Exec meeting (2/28/2020)
  2. Report from LFSA exec. meeting (3/24/2020)
  3. Report on meeting with Dean Smith (3/18/2020)
  4. Update from the Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site
  5. Discussion of how LFA will operate in the COVID-19 crisis
  6. Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports
  7. New business

Opening

Meeting was held via Zoom.

General discussion of current working conditions and experiences.

Approval of minutes of previous LFA Exec meeting (2/28/2020)

Approval was postponed and will be approved via email by next Friday, April 3.

  • April 6 Update: Minutes were approved unanimously via email.

Report from LFSA exec. meeting (3/24/2020)

Discussion on the ad hoc committee on KU Libraries governance website review.

The report will need to be sent to LFSA members, but the timing is uncertain, due to some concerns and requirements (changes to the code, requirements for sending documents, ballot, timeline, etc.)

To be approved before the next LFSA Exec committee begins, it would need to be done by June. Betsaida will work with Code Committee to develop language as next step. Timing still TDB Feedback still needs to go the ad hoc group for possible re-edits.

Report on meeting with Dean Smith (3/18/2020)

Dean Smith was asked to create a spreadsheet with Lib employee status (i.e., essential/on-site vs. non- essential) for University reporting.

LFSA plans to send a message to all staff to provide a venue for anyone to communicate issues/questions/etc.

The library mail room door is open from 9am-1pm if anyone needs to get in the building. Any updates on travel funding have been postponed for the time being.

Discussion about what impact current events will have on the tenure process (e.g., What does it mean for presentations or other tenure-related activities that have been postponed or cancelled due to the crisis?).

  • LCPT will discuss requesting input from pre-tenure faculty for questions and concerns that people have? Results could be shared with Dean Smith to communicate to the Provost.

Update from the Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site

See above

Discussion of how LFA will operate in the COVID-19 crisis

We will stick to normal schedule for the time being. Meetings (Exec committee and General Meeting) to be held via Zoom.

Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports

LCPT committee will likely have meeting in May.

Code committee will be contacted in regard to possible changes to the code relating to the website review (e.g., establishing a role of webmaster).

New business

Discussion about problems KU faculty may be working through re: grades.