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Present: Baker, Black, Bryant, Heck, Herndon, Kerins, Nelson,
O’Shea, Payne, Reid, Verburg
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Next Meeting: April 2, 2008
2:00-3:30
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Leader:
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Nelson
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Leader: O’Shea
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Recorder:
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O’Shea
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Recorder: Reid
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Observer:
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Payne
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Observer: Verburg
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Location: Reese
Room
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Last Meeting: Minutes of
February 27, 2008 were approved
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Special Agenda Items: Scheduling
for ILIT 1500 was presented by Camilla Baker.
Plans are to offer 2 sections of the course in the fall. Several times were
suggested. Camilla will check with the Registrar about times which are
feasible.
Diane Black presented a
proposal for adding Project Muse title links to GIL. It was decided that
Diane would work with the project and determine its effectiveness.
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Area Reports:
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Media Services: Ralph Herndon
attended the meeting for Media Services. Ralph reported that Media Services
continues to work with the Augusta Richmond County Historical Society World
War II oral history interviews. Work with the Sand Hills Workshop is in
progress. A webcast of the Basketball Tournament game on Wednesday March 26
from Springfield, Massachusetts is being planned for
University Hall, Rm. 170. Planning for graduation is underway. This involves
the Civic Center. A new employee, Kristopher Wells, has begun work in Media
Services.
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Reference: (Fay Verburg): No report.
Library Instruction: (Camilla Baker): See Special Agenda item, above.
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Special
Collections: (John
O'Shea): Special Collections is currently open on Saturdays,
being staffed every Saturday by Carol and Jillian is also working as needed. A historic postcard display is in the flat
display case on the 3rd floor. A display about Georgia
trains is outside Special Collections.
There will be a display for the Bell Ringer’s 50th anniversary at the opening
of the Sand Hills Conference. All of these displays were arranged by Carol
with the assistance of other staff.
Carol met with Dr. Debbie Van Tuyll and
suggested some ways to present archival materials for her history of
journalism class.
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Technical Services: (Diane Black): Letters have been sent to departments
regarding renewal of their current subscriptions.
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Automation: (Jeff
Heck): No report.
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Outreach:
(Mellie Kerins):
Mellie
is working with grant co-director Dr. Karen Aubrey, to obtain the display
“Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience”. The latest
Reese’s Pieces is being edited. There
is now an exhibit on the second floor gallery that includes photographs of Dachau prison camp
taken in 1967 by Army photographer Matthew Aitken.
Bill Wells’
retirement party will be Monday, March 31st, at 2:00 in the
Library conference room. ASU faculty and staff have been invited.
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Electronic Resources: (Martha Bryant): Martha has been working on compiling
an electronic resources collection development policy. She recently completed
a report of the GALILEO statistics through February. She will be attending a
GALILEO webinar next Wednesday.
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Government Documents: (Yadira Payne):
No report.
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Circulation/Associate Director:
(Camilla Reid): Evelyn Morales-Torres, a library intern will begin work on
Friday. She will be working 10 hours a week as part of her associate in
Library Technology degree. Camilla visited Mr. Glover Baillie. He has donated
a collection of letters from the Green sisters who lived in Augusta. The mid-semester unit plan was
submitted last Friday. Personnel requests went forward. Camilla also gave a
report to RACL on our success with staff salary adjustments. Camilla thanked Amy Grigsby for her Phi Kappa Phi assistance. The
MPA accreditation committee made favorable comments on library resources. A
letter was received from State Sen. Ed Tarver with congratulations for being
awarded the IMLS grant for preservation reference resources. The library was
well represented at Pig Out. A meeting of Dr. Nelson, Susan Jordan, Carol
Waggoner-Angleton, Camilla Reid and John O’Shea was convened to discuss the
Circuit Rider report.
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Director: (Bill Nelson): The
Library has received material on preparing for the next accreditation report.
The Library received the Library Committee report to the Academic Vice
President; a copy has been posted on the Library Committee webpage,
http://www.aug.edu/library_committee/
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Committee Reports: The
Student Technology Committee continues to work with technology
requests.
The last Courseware and Website Library Resource Integration Working
Group meeting will be March 26, at which time the final report will be
reviewed.
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Miscellaneous:
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The next Library Faculty Meeting is Wednesday April 2, 2008 in the
Reese Room (note location change).
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