2010-11 Council on Libraries, Information Systems and Computing (LISC)
Minutes
November 15, 2010
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
UNH 306
Attendance: Debra Dickerson (support staff), Christine Haile (Ex Officio); Nancy
Newman; Mary Casserly (Ex Officio); Karen Brown; Ed Waltz; Bruce Dudek; Amanda
Levig; Christian Olsen; Tim Stephen; Meg Fryling (guest).
I. In Shadi Shahedipour-Sandvik’s absence, Karen Brown called the meeting to
order at 1:00 pm. The Committee made introductions and welcomed Amanda
Levig, the undergraduate representative, to LISC.
II. Karen made a motion to approve the October 18th LISC minutes. The minutes
were unanimously approved by the Committee.
III. Report from the Chair – Karen Brown
Karen reported on behalf of Shadi. The Senate Executive Committee (SEC)
meeting was held on November 1, 2010 and two related topics were discussed.
Two resolutions were considered in response to the recent deactivation by the
president, one by LCC and another by CPCA. The main topic of discussion was
the format and content of a "comment letter" to the president in response to the
deactivation. An ad hoc committee may be formed to integrate all the comments.
Shadi also participated in the University Faculty Senate's fall plenary meeting in
late October. The deactivation by UAlbany was one of the major topics. The UFS
passed two resolutions in opposition to the deactivation, one initiated by the SEC
and the other by the University centers. The resolutions are being considered by
UAlbany SEC.
IV. Report from Dean of Libraries, Mary Casserly
Mary reported that a soft rollout of an e-discover service, a tool beneficial to
undergraduate students, is now on the Library’s main website. This new service
simultaneously performs a Google-like search on a large number of databases.
Mary invited the members to take a look at the new search engine during this
trial period to see how they like it.
Mary distributed photos of the new media room that has been set up on the first
floor of the library. This was marketed as a group study area with TV screen
and plug-ins for four laptops. They are collecting comments from the students
to get a sense of whether the students like it or not. The media room will be in
the Library until the 29th of November. Both services mentioned carry a heavy
price tag.
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V. Report from the CIO, Christine Haile
Chris introduced Meg Fryling of Client Support Services. Meg is the Project
Director for the email, calendaring, collaboration project on campus and was
asked to give the Committee a project status report. Meg presented a slide show
on the evaluation of email, calendaring and collaboration services on campus
and the results that has been compiled. A variety of other information gathered
and an update of this project is available at http://wiki.albany.edu/x/JYBcAQ.
Meg then answered questions from the Committee regarding data security, cost,
support issues and reliability. Recommendations will be presented to the
President in December and the switchover to be made in fall 2011.
VI. Other Business
Chris passed out information to the Committee on the CIT 2011 (Conference on
Instruction and Technology) “20/20 Vision – Looking Forward and Remembering
the Past” to be held in May 2011. She also reminded the Committee of the three
town hall meetings scheduled for November 16 at 1:15 pm and November 23 at
2:00 pm and 4:00 pm regarding the future of email services at the campus.
Ed Waltz mentioned that the School of Public Health’s Website is now up and
running via RedDot.
There being no further business, Karen motioned to adjourn.
