Nominating and Ballot - Minutes - April 6, 2021


Nominating and Ballot Committee meeting #3 

April 6, 2021, 1:30 – 2:00 via Teams 

Present:

Jim Richey (on 1st of 2 year term), Sunita Gandhi (Chair, on 2nd of 2 year term), Lars Leon (Secretary, on 1st of  2 year term) 

Agenda:

Our timeline we worked out - Goal is to have elections completed May 17. Giving everyone two weeks to vote ballot  out by May 3. Leaves us almost 4 weeks to build ballots. First call for nominations will go out 4/6 to kulib-l with a  reminder around 4/13. N&B will meet again on 4/13 to see what we need to do related to individual proactive  reaching out, etc. Big thanks to LSA Exec for hosting a government info session on 4/7 which should help. At least one  N&B member will be on the Zoom. 

How do we know who is eligible? 

Faculty: Lars has a list of library faculty with library and some campus service from the last few years.

USS/UPS: Sunita will check with Mike to see if the shared list she shared has all LSA members: List of LSA Members on Sharepoint 

1) We reviewed what we need to do for our election. See timeline above. 

Libraries Committee on Promotion and Tenure (LCPT) 

Continuing: Monroe-Gulick (Librn, 2019-2022), Reyes (Assoc., 2020-2023) 

Need election: 3 positions for three-year terms (replacing Brooks-Kieffer, Husic, Ito). At least 2 must be  at the Librarian rank. One can be at Associate rank. All with either tenure or having completed their  probationary period.  

Sabbatical Leave and Post-Tenure Review Committee 

Continuing: Schulte (2020-2022), Goodwin Thiel (2020-2022) 

Need election: 3 positions for two-year terms (replacing Albin, Currie, McEathron). All faculty, either  tenured or having completed their probationary period.  

LFA Executive Committee 

Continuing: Angie Rathmel (FY22 Chair replacing Brian Rosenblum) 

Need election: 

Vice-chair/chair-elect (two-year term replacing Angie Rathmel) 

Secretary (1 year term replacing Karna Younger) 

Assistant librarian representative (1 year term replacing L.Marie Avila) 

Associate librarian representative (1 year term replacing Elspeth Healey) 

Librarian representative (1 year term replacing Scott McEathron) 

LSA Executive Committee 

Continuing: Mary Raple (FY22 Chair replacing Chris Bohling) 

Need election: 

Vice-chair/chair-elect (two-year term replacing Mary Raple) 

Secretary (1 year term replacing Rebecca Schroeder) 

Member at large (1 year term replacing Meghan Misenhelter) 

Member at large (1 year term replacing Sharon Riley) 

Member at large (1 year term replacing Julie Woodrick) 

Members at Large can be anybody in LSA. Try to reach out to different depts. Try to include new staff  to get feeling of 

2) Next steps 

2a) Lars email kulib-l nominations and self-nominations needed today. Ultimate deadline is April 26. (but we’ll have  internal deadlines). Nominations should go to Jim, Sunita, and Lars. Focus only on positions (won’t list names like  above, etc.) 

2b) Lars send reminder afternoon of April 12 while thanking those who have responded. 2c) See how responses go around April 13. N&B check in with each other and see what need to do. Note: Jim better  times to meet between 10 and 11:30 and 2 to 4 in afternoon. Sunita will send us mtg invite. 

Note: ACRL is the week of April 12. 20+ library people are attending. 

Actions

What 

By whom 

By when

Draft email invite to go out 4/6. Share with Jim and Sunita then send out  revised to kulib-l.

Lars 

today

Share LFA spreadsheet 

Lars 

Wed 4/7 morn.

Checkif SharePt LSA list is up to date 

Sunita 

today

Review draft meeting minutes and reply by Thursday. If not possible, can  slip to next week).

Chris, Sunita,  

Jim

Thursday noon*

Upload approved meeting #3 minutes 

Lars 

Within 1 day of  approval

Set up Qualtrics (Jon G. and Brian R. have experience with it) get some  help. Can they show us how to do this?

Jim

 

Schedule a N&B mtg for around Apr 13 

Sunita