The PowerPoint presentation from the Town Hall Meeting held on Friday, February 27th, is available here on the blog and at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pio/budget/Budget_Presentation02272009.pdf.
You can provide your comments and questions through the blog, or you can speak to your department chair (or equivalent), the directors and associate deans, or to me. We will try to capture the verbal questions and comments and incorporate them into the blog so everyone will have the information.
You can also help by providing suggestions for the impact statements that will accompany every proposed cut. These statements need to address how the changes we are proposing will affect our users.
I would like to have all the questions and comments by March 17th, so we can prepare an updated proposal to share with you in another Town Hall Meeting on or about March 19th. That will give us time to make final revisions to the budget proposal that will be submitted to the Provost on April 1st.
Thank you all for the sincere efforts that you are making to help us identify, describe and prioritize the proposed cuts. I know this is very difficult for everyone.
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Slide 11 notes that "no personnel cuts are projected for ALF, DLC and Access Support." This was explained in the Town Hall Meeting, but I have been asked to include an explanation here for those were not at the meeting.
ReplyDeleteThese are the only three departments for which personnel cuts are not proposed if the Libraries are required to reduce our appropriated funds by 10% in 2009-2010.
ALF, the auxiliary library facility, has only two staff, so eliminating a single position would result in a 50% cut, rather than a 10% cut. Also, there are a number of major projects that must be completed to prepare for the new SUS storage facility that will be built in two to three years.
DLC, the Digital Library Center, serves all parts of the Libraries by digitizing and making available online important parts of our collections. The demand for their services currently exceeds their capacity. We plan to increase DLC staff to expand their ability to support the needs of various departments for digital content to support research, teaching, exhibits, and development. This service is of strategic importance for the future of the Libraries.
As we reduce our purchases of print monographs and journals, we will need to increase Inter-Library Loan services provided by Access Support to meet the needs of our students and faculty for materials that are not in our collections.
If we do take the full 10% budget cut and these layoffs are needed, will current staff be relocated to DLC? This would slightly reduce the layoff #. Any possible way that we can reduce the layoff # should be considered.
ReplyDeleteWe will make every effort to match the skills and experience of existing personnel with vacancies elsewhere in the Libraries in order to minimize layoffs.
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