February 2003 Meeting Minutes

February 4, 2003 (Stephanie)

1. SMJ's weekend: After the terrible snow storm and being asked to leave early on Sunday; Sharon has asked the staff that with regard to weather conditions, we make careful decisions and use good judgment when working on nights and weekends. This means that bad weather, in some cases, might be cause for library closure.
2. Building Plans: Due to some issues brought up by Physical Plant, the library staff has rearranged the stacks floor plan. There was discussion about where the circ desk will actually be temporarily placed, especially now that we have a new floor plan. Physical Plant is scheduled to come tour the library at 8:30am on February 5, 2003. Leslie says her impression from Lita, one of the architects is that actual demolition and/or construction of the building will not take place until after graduation.
3. BPL wanting to request items that are already checked out to a patron. We are opposed to that. Sharon will email the directors (done).
4. Beepers: Leslie will bring in Walkie Talkies for us to practice using. After a practice period, we will revisit this issue.
5. A professor wanted materials on reserve, but we are unable to do this. Stephanie has emailed Vladimir to discuss this matter.

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February 28, 2003 (Sofia)

1. Bid:
   1.6 million. Only have 1 million. Bond signed to get an additional $425,000. Will we lose entrance? Will we lose circ desk? Lita comes up on Monday (March 3). There will be a meeting between Lita, Alan, and Dick.

   We will keep on moving until further notice.

   May not get second bond for abatement.

2. Ideas to Scott (regarding letter from Dr. Cost on working with community and funding):
   We decided to send some ideas as a group.

   Sofia sent in exhibit idea on bringing in high school and middle school students.

   Stephanie suggested a Young Adult reading club.

   General ideas sent from group: Remind people of services already provided Facilities Workshops

   Teleconferencing presentations between high school and college Court cases Debates Speeches Other Education students seeing k-12 in a forum

   Information services camp (one day, two, one week, etc)

3. Three server passwords:
   Need to know for Nicki's machine. Where do we put them? Final location not in minutes.

   Need to get familiar with windows 2000 server environment.

   Novell will go away.

4. Other:
   No laptop for students. Millennium is deleted from it.

   We want cabinet from archives. Archives needs a computer.

   Work study: Stephanie got additional monies for Ryan and Ceasar to finish out semester.

   • Not selling a lot of color printing and copies.
     
   • Need to change default back to Xerox.
     
   • Discussed not offering color printing service anymore.
     
   • Need to send out email to campus people about our concerns.
     
   • Sharon will talk to Jason about splitting lease. Jason doesn't get charged for copies.
     
   • Sharing will help keep color services on campus.
     
   • Maybe split three ways between library, Jason, and athletics.
     
   • Sharon will approach John Murphy about this.

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