Meeting with Tom Smisek

Meeting with Tom Smisek

11:00am-

Present: Mindy, Samatha, Anders, Josh, Jenna, Tom Smisek

Discussed what our issue is with the library.

Project vs. Something actually trying to do

Budget: 10% cut from governer walker across the board

Everyone on campus has a budget, large comes from state, pays for salary, and all the up keep of the building when necessary, and running the building all comes out of the library budget

He is only a reference librarian, and dont deal with the numbers when it comes to the budget, but suggested we contact Budget office..... (Valerie would be the one to talk to)

When the carpet downstairs was downstairs, it comes out of the facilities funding. Facilities management was the ones who paid for the carpet.

The reason why they paid for it was because it was a need, students were tripping over it. The safety issue drove it, but there is money for upkeep.

year and a half ago perposed walling off part of the labrary,
trying to get money for that, could be done but the layout would have to be changed, but wouldnt happen because it wouldnt make sense.

All furniture is movable

Tried to keep the second floor quiet but still got complaints becuase people study in different ways, trying to devided it in different space. Monitor more of the sound on the second space.
Campus seems to accept it the second floor is accepted more as quiet.

hope in the future that there would be more money, becuase of the election cycle, until the next one, the next elected officals are going to do what they want to do.

A lot of the stuff we get from madison, data base, ect, we will loose out on if Madison breaks off on their own.

Libqual survey, ask Valerie (library director) sent out a survey to determine what students liked about the library

The only things that cannot be moved, are the stuff with power, the tables stay next to pillers becuase of outlets, the book stacks can not be moved because of the floor load. Cannot move the computers becuase of the jacks and the cost to reset them up. Security reasons, the jacks that are not used are not turned on. If there is books stacked on them it was put there becuase of how the floor layout is to support them. The book stacks have to stay where they are because of teh structual engineering.

The cost of putting stuff online, that isnt already online the cost is crucial. If they have a hard copy, we would have to once again buy an online copy.

We use our books and we use other peoples books as well, madison ect.....
The books might not be used by us but other school barrow from us as well .

access to 11 million titles alone, we have more access because we use other libraries as well.

How many libraries in the UW system are used for the library, all of the UW-campuses plus the UW schools that are two years.