Minutes 8/28/06
2006-7 Council on Libraries, Information Systems and
Computing (LISC)
Planning/Orientation Meeting
Attendance: George Berg, Frank D’Andraia, Steven Doellefeld
(representing Sue Faerman - Director of CETL), Martin Fogelman,
Martin Manjak, Barbara Via, David Wagner, Daniel White, Maria Chau
(GSO chair). Visiting: Reed Hoyt
Call to order: Reed Hoyt
- Short discussion about the goals and responsibilities of the council
and its committees. We all would like to see continued graduate
student involvement in the council and greater undergraduate
representation.
Election of new chair: Motion to elect Dan White chair by Steve
Doellefeld. , seconded by Dave Wagner. Vote passed unanimously.
Dan White elected chair.
Volunteers for LISC committees.
ITUPC (need at least 3 members): George Berg , Steven Doellefeld,
Martin Fogelman, Martin Manjak
Libraries (need at least 3 members): Frank D’Andraia (chair),
Barbara Via, Dave Wagner, need one more council member.
- ITUPC members will confer and nominate a chair to report to the
council by the first council meeting.
Announcements:
Barbara Via brought the councils attention the newly opened
Information commons in the Science library. The information
commons is a joint IT and Libraries initiative. There are new
computers with a full complement of software and both IT and Library
staff to support student work.
Frank D’Andraia spoke about the need to expand the library’s
operating base in the face of increasing costs and inflation. We will
continue to face the need to cut back on library resources if prices
rise with inflation but the budget does not. Frank will work to provide
LISC with data to help us understand the problem more clearly.
Dan White will circulate a scheduling grid by email in order to pin
down a meeting time for the Council.
Meeting adjourned 11:40am.
Submitted by Dan White.
