Unfinished Business —

Agenda Summary

1. Introductions- Committee chair and members
2. Committee chair report: Review of charges of the committee, 2021-2022 report, and suggested items for the committee's attention in the following meetings.
3. Libraries Interim Co-Deans presentation: Libraries leadership plan until the selection of the Dean of Libraries+ status of the "Libraries strategic plan" (budgets, staff, space, etc.).

Decisions and Action Items

1. Review of charges of the committee: the committee members read the “Charges of the committee”. The committee approved the charges and the membership without changes. This will be communicated to SenEX by the committee chair, as required by the FY2023 charges.
2. Based on the charges for this year, the committee members discussed a suggested list of items for the following meetings of the committee this academic year:
   1. University Senate Library Committee's role regarding the Wheat Law Library
   2. Review and suggest a revision to the Open Access Policy for University of Kansas Scholars https://policy.ku.edu/governance/open-access-policy
   3. Discuss open access initiatives at the Libraries and the status of big deal negotiations
   4. The status of the Watson renovation project
   5. The Future of KU: Libraries
3. Revision to the Open Access Policy for University of Kansas Scholars: Rami Zeedan and Elizabeth Berghout will form an ad-hoc commit to review the policy and propose a draft to be discussed in the committee’s meeting in the spring semester. This ad-hoc committee needs at least one more volunteer.