Attendees:  Anne Kenney, Kathy Chiang, Angela Horne, Pat Court, Pat Schafer, Zsuzsa Koltay, Carmen Blankinship, Eli Brown

1)  North Campus Drop-Box (Anne Kenney)

·        Sarah has asked that Access Services look into the possibility of offering a north campus dropoff box for library books during the last several weeks of the semester at either Robert Purcell (near the information desk) or the Tatkon Center in Balch Hall (contact Campus Life?)

·        Sarah would like some preliminary response to this in time to present to the Library Student Advisory Council when it meets on Feb. 7. 

• Issues identified when idea was looked at in 2004:
• • Weekend maintenance of drop box
  • Size of drop box (can’t have books left outside of drop box—maybe a slot to a room?)
  • If contents of box all come to Olin, difficult to absorb sorting workload
• There will be a display about drop boxes at ALA- could help with planning
• PSEC advised the service should be year-round and not just during end-of-semester rush

Action Items:

ü      Ask Carmen Blankinship, Howard Raskin, and Deb Lamb-Deans to work on developing a report for the Library Student Advisory Council meeting on Feb. 7th

2)  Closing Procedures (Zsuzsa Koltay)

• PSEC discussed current inconsistencies among unit libraries about phased closing
• PSEC recommendations:
• • Entrance to library should not be locked until advertised closing hour
  • Signs about closing hours for services should be clearly posted

Action Items:

ü      Anne will forward to LMT PSEC’s policy recommendation for Library closing procedures

3)  Review of Final Plan for RefWorks (Kathy Chiang)

·        PSEC reviewed and discussed the final plan

Action Items:

ü      Kathy will ask for budget details and follow through on budget.

4)  Review of Charges for groups under PSEC

·        PSEC reviewed charges for proposed groups under PSEC

Action Items:

ü      PSEC members should look through the charges:  find consistency and find overlaps with CUL priorities groups- make recommendations via listserv

ü      Invite Linda Bryan to our next meeting to discuss organizational change