Dean's Information -- ACC Library Services

Dean's Information -- ACC Library Services

Although my ultimate goal is to update once every two weeks and then once a week, here is your September Update of the information posted in August plus a little more.

UPDATE on "Just some of the information we need to focus on this year includes:"

Facilities issues:

South Austin

Gee, I wish I could tell you something meaningful here. My review of the latest SAC plans (which Richard and Bill and I look at and then take to managers and then bring to meetings such as all-librarians, etc.) revealed huge and bad changes. My guess is (which was supported in Project Manager discussions) that in trying to get the costs of the project down, they gave the plan to someone not familiar with our program discussions and this architect was told to "make it fit." I did a huge assessment of each IRT section and then passed it to Richard for him to add his comments from his perspective. We then passed this master list along to the ACC Project Manager, Bill who is good and understands our needs and issues.

Along with our section by section comments, I asked for our original architect to be back on board (Chad from PSP) and for the major overhaul. Bill indicated we might get a new plan either this week or next....so keep in mind we went from one okay plan to one better plan to one good plan to one awful plan. I await their comments....what is different about the site?

-no more patios anywhere on the campus as they are so expensive

-we have restored space BACK from the adjunct faculty member pod so back to the original better amount of square feet

-no more wings...most of the campus is a larger/box building connected to another -box/connected to the parking garage

-the community committee voted NOT to have the music focus and I don't know where that vote will go/whether or not music will now stay at NRG for the time being

-the community committee did not want visual communications design unless it is a basic workforce (participants can get jobs after they take the courses) offering. Depending on the numbers then, it may or may not go. What's left you say? General Education, for sure.

Cypress

We've had two meetings and a third one this week. Right now the square footage for us is estimated to be at 8,800, but we haven't met with them to specifically say what we need. The questions for us will include:

-is the 8,800 identified in the draft program (which ACC facilities put together) have all the correct space estimated together? That is, how much space is for ITDL and is it in the 8,800 amount?

-will IRT space be in the main area/current building?or in the new building?

-is this the space we'll get? more? less?

The new building will be 100k but only 67k assignable square footage.


RGC

We had one very good meeting with the 3-D firm who has been hired to get a sense of how the building might be re-done. I thought they did a wonderful job of moving the group along. There are two town hall meetings planned to get community input for this week. RGC staff will be attending both and we'll gather information on what the community thinks and report back.

Emerson

I don't have a clue. The president explained in our Administrative Leadership Team (ALT)meeting on this last Monday that no decisions have been made because we needed a full financial picture. That is, the site w/buildings was originally estimated at 12million but the remodel would add a great deal more. Emerson will be discussed this fall.

San Marcos

There is MUCH discussion on this because the gift of land/28 acres also had a you-must-build-in-two-years-clause. We asked the president to discuss this in the next ALT meeting. Obviously the promise of this location would go a long way to bringing in a San Marcos positive vote to join the ACC district, however, it would greatly alter our planning by adding a new location to plan for.


Del Valle

Well, they voted to come in the District as we all know. More later on how we will connect further with the community as they are already well connected with Riverside.

Round Rock Higher Education Center

Who knows? There is a small classroom-sized room with computers only and no shelving, which they have indicated is the library. Right now it isn't clear if there are any copiers in the building! I am going to be speaking with Joan Heath this week about what Texas State is currently doing
for the library. She is great to work with and knows we won't be - to our knowledge at this time - hiring hourly, etc. We are all on board to do joint training...we still need to discuss a little shelving for reserves, ITV tapes, etc. More later.

Eastview

The last (we hope) of the construction will begin after the last week of the fall term. We have had several meetings to firm up:

-shelving being purchased for new EVC space for HS materials coming over from RVS
-floorplans that will make maximum room for new seating
-seating/furniture that Facilities will be buying for us

RVS

We have not started meeting with RVS staff to discuss changes. That will happen early in October with Margaret and me and the staff.


Master Planning - College-wide

I serve on the Institutional Planning Committee. We have asked for a college-wide planning discussion to pull together information on:

-the current Master Plan/update

-the planned rfp that the college is putting out for a geographic visioning process for a 2020 projected look at Central Texas/ACC's current area/future/proposed areas

-the academic master plan that Donetta's academic deans will be working on

Planning LS

CDC is working on planning for a little more (7,500) database money in '05

CDC is creating scenarios for how we might operate given various TexShare funding scenarios

Managers are looking at MP initiatives that we asked for/is there any element we can begin on without funding and we are looking at consequences of no funding

Administration

We have been working closely with the new president in general and on behalf of Library Services. So far so good! He has heard our spiel about resources and services (to the Foundation) and has had a tour of all ls areas. He has received an email for me offering research and search services for our information. He will be adding in our LS information for Board members offering them our help as needed as well. Leslie has worked with him through TACHE as well.

New AVP of IRT

The job description was completed and the job was posted several weeks ago. Richard and I met to propose committee membership and Richard will be taking those names to Steve this next week.

Ongoing is still:

working with HR to assess levels of all Library Assistants and other Technical Services staff (meetings have not started yet...project led by Jeanette and Cherry)

assessing all LS administrative rules to be updated (Cary is leading this)

working with IT to plan for/consolidate help desk kinds of information

working with IT to provide college-wide authentication (we're trying to go forward with as much as we can as we didn't receive any collegewide funding

Other issues:
Patriot Act - ongoing...a collegewide committee is addressing this and we're very involved

Updating LS/patron scenarios for patron/staff interactions (haven't done much on this, some will be driven by the Patriot Act content)

Assisting in ACC's move to Hybrid courses (LS IL, etc.) ....haven't started

Updating weeding processes/training ....haven't started

iii training fall/mid year ...Toma and Cary will be working on this

an even more aggressive integration of IL into ACC college life (example: the debate over the InfoGame that has taken place on the faculty list and subsequent emails on this)

We are dispersing the Cypress laptops as the wireless is not able to work anywhere at CYP and this won't be tackled until the new facilities are designed. After reviewing stats the LLT decided that 2 will go to EVC and the rest and the cart to NRG.