· Betsy Simpson will be attending FLA Apr. 12 through Apr. 13.

· A number of efforts are in process to improve communications. One suggestion is to channel the information Tatiana Barr gathers for ACRL to Barbara Hood for further distribution. Another is to open the electronic Bulletin Board to library wide use.

· Martha Hruska reminded members the hiring supervisor is responsible for providing Human Resources with an informational blurb to be used to announce new hires.

· Bill Covey has suggested the Transition Monitoring Team become more of a communications monitoring group with a larger charge. Martha Hruska feels that the committee should contain 2 divisional representatives. Note: these are Tatiana Barr and Suzanne Kiker.

· The Strategic Planning Process will be discussed at the April 21st Library Council meeting. There is a feeling that we will move away from the Balanced Scorecard process.

· Annual Activity reports are due for library faculty on April 15th. Progress on Goals and Draft Goals for coming year, draft annual assignment and an updated Vita are also due. Starting May 15th supervisors draft evaluation letters, forwarding to Department Chair and Division Director for review. Supervisors also begin meeting with faculty members to discuss evaluation letter, finalize goals and annual assignment. May 30th supervisors finish meeting with faculty members to discuss evaluation letter, finalize goals and annual assignment. May 31st completed evaluation packets due in Library HR office. Martha noted that staff shouldn’t push to develop assignments and goals for next year until the Library wide goals and objectives are more developed. She will bring up the topic of whether finalizing goals and objectives by the end May is realistic.

· A suggestion was made that perhaps using Exceeds, Meets, and Below Standards rating criteria on evaluations should be reevaluated. This will be suggested for library wide discussion. Martha noted that Joe Glover will be scheduled to address the Library Faculty.

· Martha will be attending the RLG Annual Membership Meeting April 16-20, 2005.

· Bill Covey is drafting the proposed Staff Task Survey discussed in the last Library Council meeting. He should be sending it to Library Council members to review in the near future.

· The Digital Library Center was awarded the Digital Library of the Caribbean TICFIA Grant in conjunction with FIU and UVI.

· The Classification Scheme Group has submitted a preliminary report to Dale Canelas.

· Betsy Simpson noted that applications for the CJK Librarian and Digital Librarian position are coming in.