August 1999 Meeting Summary

Members of the Committee are: Laura Power (Chair), Mary Beth Blalock, Gayle Grantham, Dale Manning, Debra Quarles, Suellen Stringer-Hye and Gail Workman and Julie Loder

Julie Loder was welcomed into the committee this month.

Laurie Power met with Paul regarding the Forum Proposal Laurie described her presentation to the LMC .Several questions came up such as how would the Advisory Task Force work? and is Copyright the best topic, due to lack of legal expertise, for the first forum presentation?
The committee decided to rework the proposal and return to the LMC with a new topic and more precise details for the first forum. The LMC response was generally positive but topic has not yet been decided upon

Merit Awards
The Committee discussed several ways to gather staff response to the merit Award program
· Information gathering survey to prepare for a brown bag
· Brown bag presentation by Paul and Gail
· Survey afterward to determine staff opinion of merit pool raises

Laurie discussed this subject with Paul and they determined that they would

· Arrange time at the end of September after Lisa joins the library
· Gail or Paul will describe the merit pool process
· Will not be held as a "brown bag" as was decided to give more weight to this subject
· Paul did not think a preliminary survey was necessary
· Where to have it?
· Reviewing the process
· If staff cannot attend or wish anonymity, questions could be submitted in advance.
· Directors should encourage staff attendance
· Questions and Answers to be posted after the session

The committee also decided to sponsor a brown bag on Electronic Theses and Dissertations and Electronic Reserves as well as a the teleconference "Building
Earth's Largest Library .