Time: Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.
Location: Microsoft Teams<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Present:<\/strong> Rachel Baum \u2013 ULC Chair, Anne Bonds, Michael Doylen \u2013 Library Director, Jenny Hutton, Maura Lucking, Jesse Malmed, Victoria Moerchen, William Musinski, Ermitte Saint Jacques, Analise Sandoval, and Lance Weinhardt<\/p>\n\n\n\n Excused:<\/strong> Martha Carlin and Shevaun Watson<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guest:<\/strong> Chris Doll, Library Associate Director for Collection and Resource Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n Time: Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.Location: Microsoft Teams Present: Rachel Baum \u2013 ULC Chair, Anne Bonds, Michael Doylen \u2013 Library Director, Jenny Hutton, Maura Lucking, Jesse Malmed, Victoria Moerchen, William Musinski, Ermitte Saint Jacques, Analise Sandoval, and Lance Weinhardt Excused: Martha Carlin …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[65],"tags":[43,24,14],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries-committee","tag-2025-2026","tag-faculty","tag-minutes"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
The minutes of September 17, 2025, meeting were approved by unanimous consent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n\n
\u201cScholarly Publishing with Springer Nature\u201d workshop will be held on October 23 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. in the 4th<\/sup> floor conference center of the Golda Meir Library. Representatives from Springer Nature will talk about their \u201cread & publish\u201d agreement with 51ÁÔÆæ and faculty will discuss their experiences publishing with Springer.
On October 30, Gabriela Nagy, 51ÁÔÆæ assistant professor of psychology, will present the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk is \u201cResilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric:\u00a0 What Latino\/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.\u201d
Items from Special Collections are currently on loan to the 51ÁÔÆæ Mathis Art Gallery for the exhibition \u201cRebellious Stripes: The Flag in Activist Art\u201d and will be on display November 6-December 12.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Doylen shared information about the Libraries\u2019 plan to manage the 5% budget cut (-$360,883) in FY26, plus the usual 6% increase in collection costs ($180,000). Doylen also discussed the impact of year-over-year budget cuts on library collections, services, and staffing levels. He asked committee members to share this information with their faculty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n
Chris Doll, Library Associate Director for Collection and Resource Management, reported on the Libraries\u2019 read & publish agreements. These are contracts between the library and a publisher that bundle the costs for reading journal content and publishing articles open access. This model removes the immediate cost burden for authors who can publish their research in open access journals without paying individual Article Processing Charges (APCs). Over the past 4 years, 51ÁÔÆæ authors have saved $153,000 in APCs through these agreements. ULC discussed their publishing experiences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n