CARLI Board of Directors
Meeting 9
January 27, 2006
Parkland College, Champaign, IL
Members attending: David Carlson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), Scott Drone-Silvers (Lake Land College), Paula Kaufman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Linda Morrissett (DePaul University), Mary Munroe (Northern Illinois University), Susan Singleton (CARLI), Ellen Sutton (College of DuPage), Carla Tracy (Augustana College), Kathy Walsh (National Louis University), Anna Maria Watkin (Parkland College), Eric Welch (Highland Community College), Jay Starratt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) - by phone at 12:30 p.m.
Staff attending: Elizabeth Clarage, Tom Dorst, Kristine Hammerstrand, Bernie Sloan, Connie Walsh
Members absent: Sylvia Jenkins (Moraine Valley Community College), Anne Craig (Illinois State Library)
Guests: Kathleen Bloomberg (Illinois State Library), Belinda Cheek (North Central College)
Decisions:
- Minutes of Meeting 8 December 16, 2005 meeting were approved with minor changes.
- Revised charge for the Collections Working Group was approved as amended. To be posted on the website.
- Digital Collections Collection Development Policy was approved as revised. To be posted on the website.
- The regular economic updates, previously prepared by Dave Stewart, will now be posted on the website quarterly for the general information of the membership.
- Board approved the Voyager upgrade to begin on June 15, 2006.
- The Board formally thanked the User Group Committee for its work and the depth of its Final Report.
- A revised agenda for the IACRL Preconference was approved by the Public Relations Committee. The agenda will focus on the value of CARLI in member institutions, staff presentations of service and an overall promotion of CARLI.
- The Board accepted the Executive Director’s recommendations to:
- reduce the frequency of Board meetings to bi-monthly, starting with the cancellation of the February 2006 meeting
- change the form of the Board meeting minutes and have them posted within a week of the meeting
- invite the Executive Director to be hosted by each Board member in order to meet CARLI member library directors in the geographic vicinity
- Board will strongly encourage each CARLI member library to send at least one staff member to Springfield for Illinois Library Advocacy Day on March 1, 2006.
Tasks assigned:
- Staff will begin developing a program budget approach for Fiscal Year 2007 to be reviewed by the Finance Committee and Board.
- Finance Committee will create a subcommittee to make I-Share assessment recommendations for FY 2008 and then bring a recommendation to the Board.
- A group will be formed to look at CARLI resource sharing policies and practices, with Kristine Hammerstrand acting as staff liaison. Both line staff and directors will be included.
- Final Report of the User Group Committee was sent to the Executive Director and staff for analysis and recommendation, as soon as practical. The needs of the IUAG for the coming year will be addressed as a priority, and its name will be changed, at least in the interim, so that the “I” stands for I-Share rather than ILCSO.
- A small working group will prepare a report on the “State of Academic Libraries in Illinois” to be shared with the members.
Meeting Dates and Deadlines:
- Committee reports due to Executive Committee: Monday, March 6, 2006
- Next Executive Committee Meeting: Wednesday, March 8, 2006, conference call
- Next Board Meeting: Friday, March 17, 2006, Parkland College, Champaign
Meeting agenda and attached reports available at: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/Board/060127agenda.html