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Administrative Update    Karen

Budget

Karen reported that the A&P Committee met for their annual review of Human Resources – Salaries and Benefits. Minutes are posted on the Intranet.

There will be changes to the Professional and Travel accounts for the next fiscal year. Requests will be approved and funded on a system level, rather than on a department level.

A new budget cost center (DL) has been created for the Digital Library, managed by Kellie Delaney. Funds in account 401 for e-media have been assigned to this cost center.

From July 1, 2013 to February 21, 2014, MSL received a total of 9,581 customer suggestions, for an average of 282 per week.

Since the beginning of FY14, 20,648 titles and 139,412 items were selected and ordered. This averages to 625 titles and 4,224 items per week.

Since the beginning of July, a total of 563 boxes of withdrawals and gifts were received in MSL. 298 boxes were sent to the booksale, 122 boxes of transfers and 16 boxes of gifts were sent to CAT.

Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in December was 1 working day; average for the first half of FY13 is 1.29 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.

In December, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 12 calendar days. This includes only time from the date requests are sent out from ILL to the date that they are received in ILL; it does not include routing time between MLS libraries and ILL.

The average daily run for December was 755 items per day, for a total of 14,354 items in December. The average for January so far is 902 items per day. The processors are still current on processing all “rush” materials; they are processing non-rush materials from January 10, which is from the run 6 working days ago. Study guides and dated materials like continuations are also current.

Review of Action Items All

Purchases from 46th Star Press-Karen reported that there is no need to alert her or Lloyd to purchases made from 46th Star Press, which is owned by an MLS employee’s family. Lloyd can run an end of the year report to find out what was purchased.
Any other purchases or services from MLS employees should be forwarded to Karen.