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KULSS Exec

Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Watson Conference Rm B – 10-11:30am

Present: Jill Becker (Chair), Nishon Hawkins (Vice Chair); Angie Rathmel (Secretary); Kevin Fussell (Group 2); Ruth Hoffman (Group 3); Robert Szabo (Group 4); Monica Claassen-Wilson (FY07 Chair)

Absent: Denise Swartz (Group 1)

Approval of 5/17/07 meeting’s minutes.
DONE
Approval of previous meeting’s action items (you can cut and paste or fill-in from agenda)

WHO?	BY WHEN?	WHAT?
1.  Angie		Ask Donna to send SSEYA pictures and upon receipt, update website. NOT DONE (See action)
2.  ALL		Eat nachos and bid farewell to Monica on 6/14/07 at the Union. DONE
3.  Monica		Send out letters of acknowledgement to support staff who participated on committees (including KULSS Exec, PRC, Grievance, SSEYA, USS Senate) this year and copy them to their supervisors. DONE

Group Reports:
Grp 1: Acq/Ser, Reference, Collection Development, Administration, Facilities

• Denise is out with a softball injury.
• Carpeting currently being installed.
• Serials/Acquisitions Library Assistant position closed Jul 10th

Grp 2: Cataloging

• n/a

Grp 3: Access Services, Mail Room, ILL

• Ruth Hoffman is resigning.
• 3 positions vacant in this group, but only 2 position monies to use. Decision on how to fill these has not yet been determined.
• Amanda Harlan’s
• Ruth’s
• New position description (Library Associate) written for Watson Service Desk Supervisor

Grp 4: Anschutz, Annex, Art, Engineering, Music, RCL, Spencer

• ANSCHUTZ
• Victoria Williams is about to be in permanent status.  Probationary evaluation completed.
• ANNEX
• Asst Mgr position being interviewed
• ART
• No report

• ENGINEERING
• No report
• MUSIC
• No report
• RCL
• No report
• SPENCER
• No report

 

Committee Reports
University Support Staff (USS) Senate (Submitted by Mary Ann Baker)
Turns out there's not a lot to report from today's USS Senate Exec Committee meeting.  Most of the time we discussed what we want to accomplish at our retreat next week.  We'll be looking at past accomplishments and what we hope to accomplish in the near future and how that all transfers into charges for our standing committees for this year.

As you'll soon see in the Senate newsletter, our president writes about some KS legislative initiatives to improve the pay and benefits of classified staff in the Civil Service system.  Whatever improves for them (e.g., increase in longevity pay from $40 to $50 per year) is all to the good for USS folks as the university has pledged to at least match if not improve upon whatever the state offers classified staff in monetary compensation.  Hence, we, as USS, got the same longevity increase.  Of course, both classified and USS have the same health and retirement benefits, etc., so we're keeping an eye on all that too and promoting better coverage, etc.

University Senate (Submitted by Mary Ann Baker)
Neither the University Senate nor the University Committee on Libraries is meeting this summer

University Committee on Libraries (UCL)
Neither the University Senate nor the University Committee on Libraries is meeting this summer

Diversity Committee

IS Professional Development Council
Meeting with Katherine Dice before the all-staff meeting. No set meeting schedule established yet. Will propose encouragement of library presentations at All staff meetings and propose bulletin boards that people have created for conference to be posted in Anschutz.

Planning & Resources Committee (PRC)
Annual Report submitted to the dean. See Meeting updates (LFA Meeting on PRC 5/29/07).

 

Meeting Updates:

LFA Meeting on PRC 5/29/07

Concern of loss of planning component in the new charge.

;Management Council 6/13/07

Budget presentations from all department heads.
Day-long Management Council Retreat scheduled for Thursday, July 19th, 2007.
Overtime policy reviewed (not changed)
Communications Strategies Task Force (stakeholders, new standing charges)

Meeting with the Dean and HR Officer 6/18/07

ALA -- Washington D.C.
Library should send Support Staff to some national conference every year.  KULSS-Chair (automatic, incl $500 for professional dvlp avail already).  For #2 have a specific scholarship, application process.

Questions for AD Candidates
See action item

Agenda Items for the next Meeting with the Dean

• Position Announcements Library Wide and HR Support
• ALA scholarship proposal for support staff

Action Items for next meeting:

WHO?	BY WHEN?	WHAT?
Angie		Change Laura Hanson’s Name, Nancy Rake’s name, Victoria Williams
Monica		Send Angie pictures
Jill		Contact LFA folks for interest in Summer KULSA picnic.
Angie		Come up with email for soliciting questions for AD candidates and send to Group Reps
Group Reps		Send out solicitation questions
Jill		Ask Julie to run for Group 3

Next meeting will be August 9th in Watson Conference Rm B.