Meeting Minutes – April 24, 2014
Thanks to everyone for your participation in TMLGAC this year! Please contact Karen (gaukh@vcu.edu) if you did not receive your honorarium in April. We will be in touch about participating in the 2014-2015 committee in the coming months.
The minutes for our April meeting are below.
- Guest: Teresa Knott
- Upcoming Events
- Coffee Breaks in TML’s foyer from 3-5pm:
Free coffee, tea and snacks!Monday, May 5 – Thursday, May 8 - Exam Break: Pet a Pooch with Dogs on Call on Monday, May 5th, from 12-1pm
- Exam Break: Massage on Tuesday, May 6th, from 12-1pm
- See http://go.vcu.edu/library-classes for more upcoming events
- Coffee Breaks in TML’s foyer from 3-5pm:
- Student Technology Fee (STF) Fund discussion
- Review of proposal for expending VCU Libraries’ portion of funds from the Student Technology Fee
- Feedback from committee members
- Equipment that TML should consider purchasing
- Dual monitors
- GoPro cam
- Really nice cameras — not flip video cameras — so that campus organizations can check them out to take pictures
- Technology/equipment probably can’t be shuttled between libraries, but we could rotate when each library has equipment
- Equipment that TML should consider purchasing
- Proposed Student Library Fee: $25/semester
- TML would use these funds toward:
- Extending library hours
- Hiring more library liaisons
- Updating furniture
- Funds would also be used to maintain the new library facility on the Monroe Park campus
- TML would use these funds toward:
- Miscellaneous
- Alumni access to library databases
- Database access through the university’s Alumni Association is very limited, but the Alumni Association does offer a discount for Friends of the Library membership
- Joining Friends of the Library allows members to fully access library databases while in a library facility
- A committee member recommended obtaining a RALC pass to access nearby facilities for studying
- Alumni access to library databases