LFA Exec - Minutes - April 24, 2020

LIBRARY FACULTY ASSEMBLY (LFA) EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING NOTES

April 24, 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 (3/27/2020)
  2. Report on meeting with Dean Smith (4/10/2020)
  3. Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site
  4. Discussion of upcoming LFA general spring meeting (4/29/2020)
  5. Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports
  6. New business

Opening

Meeting was held via Zoom.

General discussion of current working conditions and experiences.

Approval of minutes of previous LFA Exec meeting (3/27/2020)

Minutes were approved, with one minor change re: Report on meeting with Dean Smith

Report on meeting with Dean Smith (4/10/2020)

Deadlines for evaluations has been moved to May 1.

Currently, faculty can stop the clock for Promotion and Tenure (P&T) up to two times. The university is trying to add the opportunity for faculty to request a third time to allow for COVID-related delays. This likely has to be approved by the Board of Regents. P&T review/meetings are still ongoing via Zoom.

Dean Smith has been in touch with other deans/heads re: upcoming budget challenges.

  • Furloughs are not out of the question. In the recent Library Town Hall, Dean said that he has no reason to think that they will happen, until a last resort.
  • Library carryover funds may be swept.
  • Endowment may be hiring a consultant to review KU administrative spending

Update on Governance’s actions re: adding a non-voting member of LFSA Exec – webmaster. This will likely move forward in FY2020-21.

Ad Hoc committee on Governance website and SharePoint site

General consensus is that the report is clear, but the spreadsheet/inventory is hard to interpret. Sara Morris noted that it makes more sense when looking at the Governance website.

Request that Committee make recommendations for file naming for consistency.

The plan is to talk about this project and highlight the missing documentation at LFA General mtg, LSA General mtg, and LFSA General mtg, which will hopefully prompt former committee members to begin gathering and submitting documents. This can be followed up by specific requests.

Discussion of upcoming LFA general spring meeting (4/29/2020)

Consider having someone from the Ad Hoc committee present to the meeting

Discussion of new LFA Exec membership. Request that committee liaisons compile a list of which committees will need new members/officers.

Date for election will be scheduled after the general meetings.

Anything to/from LFA Committee liaison reports

None

New business

General discussion about personal experiences during this time.