Memorial Library Committee

We had our first meeting for this year on Feb 29. After approving the meeting minutes of Dec. 10, 2007, the Chair and Director made few announces namely:
1. Libraries/DoIT to host May 2 symposium.
2. Resolution expressing faculty senate recognition and appreciation of UW-Madison Campus Libraries and Staff.

Our next agenda was faculty concerns.
1. Overlapping collections between libraries such as CIMC and Memorial Library on educational materials. And the Director reassured that it would not be a case since each library would collaborate before making new purchases.
2. Space issue as the increase in collections without building expansion. No definite answer to this, but the problem was mainly about budget constraint.

Student concerns.
1. Making services offered by library known to students especially the ones that we never expect such as poster printing, camera recorder, and so on. One suggestion was to create a list of 20 services that students may never know offered by library.
2. The sudden closure of library dues to severe weather. The question was how can students be better informed for such occasion. One proposal was to communicate through e-mail and the director would bring up the issue to Library Communication Department.

Before adjourned, the committee discussed the possibility to reschedule meeting time.