Agenda

University Library Committee

Agenda

24 March 2015

11:30am – 1:00 pm

Administrative Conference Room

D. H. Hill Library

Agenda PDF

• One-time funding from Provost – Susan K. Nutter, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries
• Library Hours Survey Results – Carolyn Argentati, Deputy Director; David Goldsmith, Associate Director for Materials Management
• ULC Concerns Regarding Funding – draft letter – Dr. Walter Wessels, Chair of the University Library Committee
• Libraries Stories – Carolyn Argentati, Deputy Director; Kim Duckett, Associate Head for Digital Technologies & Learning;and Anne Burke, Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian

Lunch will be provided, courtesy of Friends of the Library.

Directions to the Administrative Conference Room
Enter the foyer to D. H. Hill through the FIRST SET of glass doors. Turn left BEFORE passing through the second set of doors and go through doorway to stairwell. Take the stairs to the ground floor. Go through the interior door at the foot of the stairs—the conference room is to the right.

Information on access to the D.H. Hill Library for those with mobility impairments is available at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/disability-services.

Minutes

University Library Committee

24 March 2015 – Minutes

Members
Walt Wessels, Chair; Kerry Havner; Jeremy Howard; Michael Hyman; Gary Little; Mitchell Moravec; Emily Smith; Alice Warren

Staff

Susan Nutter, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries

Wendy Scott, Associate Director for Organizational Design & Learning

Chris Tonelli, Special Assistant to the Vice Provost & Director of Libraries

Guests

Carolyn Argentati, Deputy Director of Libraries

Greg Raschke, Associate Director for Collections & Scholarly Communication

Hilary Davis, Head of Collection Management and Director of Research Data Services

Kim Duckett, Associate Head, Digital Technologies and Learening

David Woodbury, Associate Head, User Experience

Anne Burke, Undergraduate Instruction and Outreach Librarian

One-time Funding from Provost

One-time funds from the Provost (totaling 2 million) need to be used by 30 June 2015, so a major space change is not an option. Half of the money was used for Collections, and the rest is being used for a variety of projects including: power in the West Wing, increased collaborative study space and seating, and noise dampening in the study rooms to improve acoustics.

Security upgrades were rejected, as the Libraries will fund future security upgrades out of their own budget.

Library Hours Survey Results

With the recent Library Hours Survey, we have seen a very high response rate at 31.4%. Utilizing NCSU email addresses and social media, the responses have been evenly spilt between changing the hours and implementing new hours.

Students have indicated certain barriers with the new hours, including lack of transportation at night from one library to the other, and the need to use one library over the other because of the differing spaces, technologies, and resources. The NCSU Libraries Student Advisory Board has reported similar splits.

David Goldsmith pointed out that study rooms are crucial, and this becomes a problem when Hunt is closed because Hill doesn’t have any, and that while transactions decrease, textbooks and tech lending are steady overnight.

ULC Concerns Regarding Funding

Walt Wessels would like to draft a letter to the University asking the Provost’s Office to budget for collections based on enrollment increase. Because NCSU Libraries is falling behind our peer schools in terms of collections budget allotted, the ULC feels that it’s necessary to bring this up to the Provost. A ULC member gave some tips regarding the letter – one page, etc.

Libraries Stories

Kim Duckett and Anne Burke presented the Libraries Stories as being part of a new communications plan to showcase how the Libraries support students, faculty, and staff through our collections, resources, lending programs, and spaces. With the Libraries Stories project, the NCSU Libraries staff will act as reporters to build relationships around camps, collecting examples of this support. Through this, we hope to inspire and inform others of our numerous campus wide collaborations. These diverse examples could drive people to enhance their research as a result.

Burke discussed the location on the web, and reviewed nine recent examples, some that utilized the Visualization Studio in Hill and the Teaching and Visualization space in Hunt. Research examples will be coming soon. Wessels called for suggestions on how to get this in front of faculty. A ULC member suggested we play them in the McKimmon Center.