CAUL-CBUA Member Updates - Revised prepared for the Board of Directors Winter 2018 Meeting February 27, 2018 Acadia University Strategic Planning at the Vaughan Memorial Library • The community outreach aspect of our planning process is currently underway. In November, the Acadia Community provided 1203 responses to two questions: “How should the Vaughan Memorial Library change?” and “Describe a high point (or high points) in your experience of the Vaughan Memorial Library.” Our team of four students is now busy analyzing responses and progressing us to the next stage of our outreach process. Staffing • We said goodbye to Scott Olszowiec. We are in the process of hiring a Web & User Experience Specialist. Services/Initiatives Fit Bikes • We are currently trialing three fit bikes in the Vaughan Memorial Library (VML). Nolan Turnbull, a current Kinesiology student at Acadia, obtained a grant to purchase the fit bikes and requested they be located in the VML due to the importance and popularity of the VML as a student space and our Study Happy initiative. Acadia Reads Initiative • The events surrounding our book are proving to be extremely popular. Our multi-disciplinary panel held in the newly renovated Student Union lounge was well attended. Five panelists approached 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl through the lens of their discipline. The VML Quiet Reading Room was similarly packed as we hosted a documentary screening and discussion of The Illusionists, directed and written by Elena Rossini. Mona Awad will be visiting the campus in March 2017! 1 • Our 2017/18-selection committee has drawn up our short-list. This year’s short-list is all books written by indigenous authors. In late March the campus will vote for the book that Acadia Reads in 2018/19. Collections Fresh perspectives. • We are grateful for a donation from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation, which gives us the opportunity to add “fresh perspectives” to our monographs collection supporting existing, developing, and new areas within our curriculum. A proportion of the donation is specifically for indigenization of our collection. Esther Clark Wright Archives • Archivist Wendy Robicheau received internal funding for the project Acadia Honour Roll. One student and one alumnus have been hired to assist with the project. In February, they rolled out a new program called Adopt-A-Soldier, which is open to community members who want to assist with the Honour Roll research. Workshops will be offered throughout the winter term. Atlantic School of Theology Library Update • Over the Christmas closure the following planned library renovations were completed: nd o Demolition of the 2 (main) floor Group Study Room nd o Demolition of a 2 floor Librarian's office o Construction of a new 1st floor (basement) Librarian's office in Technical Services rd o Removal of study carrels on 3 floor rd o Construction of new Group Study Room in former location of the 3 floor study carrels • In early May construction of ten faculty offices will begin on the 2nd floor of the library. • Our current Collections Development policy is undergoing a significant revision: o The ad hoc Senate Committee on Library Collection Policy met in November and January to review a draft of a revised Collection Development Policy o Draft has been circulated outside the committee for feedback o Committee plans to meet twice more before revised policy is submitted for ratification at the April 2018 Senate meeting Campus Update • The Atlantic School of Theology has been approved for participation in the Solar Electricity for Community Buildings Pilot Program. Under this program AST will be able to contribute solar- generated electricity to the Nova Scotia Power grid, therefore reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our revenues. 2 • President has established a Steering Committee and three subcommittees for AST’s Accreditation Self-Study. Accredited by the Association of Theological Schools once every ten years, AST will be hosting a “site visit” by an accreditation team in fall of 2019. Cape Breton University University News • Announcement was made that CBU had found and hired its next President and Vice Chancellor David Dingwall, PC. Library News • We successfully transitioned our previous SharePoint based Institutional Repository to a new one using the Islandora platform. CBU Scholar launches officially at our annual research event renamed CBU Scholar Showcase on March 6th. • Purchased 2 exerbike desks and 2 treadmills and installed them on the first floor of the library in a wellness initiative that will allow physical exercise while studying. • Purchased and installed our second new Microtek Digital Microfilm machine this year. Researchers are very pleased. • In conjunction with our Political Science Department we hosted several talks around sustainable living which were all well attended. • Librarian Yayo Umetsubo unfortunately departed to assume a new position at the University of Toronto. A search for her replacement is underway. College of the North Atlantic Further Development of Distance Learning (DL) for CNA Libraries • The Provincial Government is developing in partnership with CNA online block training support for apprentices in some trade programs. • Online training for apprentices has been requested by skilled trades stakeholders and meets a key commitment to strengthen apprenticeship training through more flexible delivery models. Renovations in Progress • During this March Reading Break, Ridge Road (RR) and Prince Philip Drive (PPD) Campus libraries will be entirely repainted according to the new college colours. New design trend at CNA: moving away from traditional wooden-style furnishings in St John’s area libraries. • The PPD Campus library has recently reclaimed its Help Centre; the space was temporarily taken up by displaced Student Services staff during renovations to the Main Office. New OCLC Subscription 3 • PPD Campus Library Learning Commons successfully applied for and received the federal Library and Archives Canada subsidy to OCLC as a replacement service for AMICUS. Staffing • The Librarian-II position is currently advertised for Labrador West Campus. o Acquisition with a Close Connection to CNA A recent CNA graduate in graphic design continues his work-apprenticeship at Lumiere Press in Toronto. This latest book is hand- made and machined, “in the fine press tradition,” and represents two years of his work: http://www.lumierepress.com/pages/leiterprospectus/leiterpro4.html Dalhousie University University News • Dalhousie will be looking for a new Provost & VP Academic in the next few months when Carolyn Watters steps down after eight years, as well as a Vice-Provost Student Affairs, due to Arig al Shaibah’s appointment at McMaster. President Florizone was renewed for a second term, beginning in 2019. Library News • Within the Libraries, recently we have hired for two new positions for the provision of campus- wide services -- a Video Conferencing Coordinator, and a Records Manager. As new initiatives, we’re making great progress with the Classroom Technologies team in Academic Technology Services, led by Marc Comeau, and the Records Management program led by Michael Moosberger. • We’re posting for an additional systems developer, a replacement library assistant, and a Collections Analysis Librarian, Indigenous Services Librarian and Scholarly Communications Librarian. Erin MacPherson’s title has changed to Research Data Management Librarian, to reflect the excellent work she is doing in this area, in addition to serving as the Liaison Librarian for the Faculty of Agriculture. • The Better You Crew is a pilot project that Dal Libraries is launching with its staff that focuses on both individual and workplace wellness. This program explores wellness from a departmental perspective, with a plan to bring the initiative to other departments in the future. The Dal Libraries’ Health and Wellness committee, chaired by Sandy Dwyer, was selected as the unit to pilot this program based on the committee’s past successes. • A staff-led Staff Conference is being planned for May 2018, under Elaine MacInnis’s leadership and based on information delivered at IATUL 2016. With significant contributions by committee co-chairs Margaret Vail and Joan Chiasson, and others such as Shelley McKibbon, Gail Fraser, Lindsay McNiff, Lachlan MacLeod, Joyline Makani, Joe Wickens, Melissa Helwig, Michelle MacDonald, Jolene Reid, Mollie Thompson, and Marlo MacKay, a six-month program has been developed leading up to the conference. Staff have attended workshops on conference proposals, conference presentations and related topics, delivered by Dal librarians and staff. • Thanks to the efforts of Scholarly Communications working groups led by Ann Barrett, we’ve implemented Dal’s ORCID offering, and we’re planning substantial improvements to DalSpace. 4 We have also renewed our SciVal subscription for three years, with financial support from the VP Research and services provided in partnership with Dal Analytics. • We experienced two very significant floods, between Christmas and New Years in the Kipling Room, and the first week of January, in the MacRae Library. There was additional water infiltration in the MacRae Library later in January related to the new third-floor Student Learning Commons construction. There is a blog piece about this forthcoming, and renewed zeal for Disaster Management Planning. • The Dal Libraries are engaged in a Fair Price journal consultation, thanks to Heather MacFadyen’s tremendous