Volume 2, Issue 5

Faculty/Staff Library Fines
The Circulation policy and loan parameters for Auraria faculty/staff have been changed. We no longer charge a $25.00 fine, per item, if library books are returned after the 30 day grace period. We also are not charging faculty/staff $25.00 replacement book processing fees or sending faculty/staff to State Collections for non-returned billed items. This affects Circulation and ILL. Faculty/staff will still have a 6 month loan period on books.
Faculty/staff are still blocked from checking out additional library materials and also blocked from off campus access to databases for non-returned or overdue items on their account. Items are still billed at $125.00 after 30 days overdue and faculty/staff are still responsible for returning items.
If a faculty/staff member has fines (not billed items) on their account from materials checked out from July 1, 2008, through the present, they can have a Circulation supervisor or staff member waive the fees. Circulation will also be waiving faculty/staff fines that we discover using create list reports. An updated Circulation policy will be sent to Shared Leadership and posted on our web page after some additional revisions are made to the Media loan rules.
- Evelyn Jamerino



Open Enrollment Update
Open Enrollment is available through May 22nd at 5:00p.m. You must make elections by the end of OE, or you will be defaulted into your current medical, dental, life, and disability insurance plans and coverage levels. To enroll online or find the paper enrollment form, please go to: https://www.cu.edu/pbs/openenrollment/index.html Rates aren't available as of this posting, but are expected to be posted on the above site within the next few days and no later than May 14th. For more FAQ's about the rate delay see: https://www.cu.edu/pbs/openenrollment/rates-faq.html No paper packets are being sent to home addresses this year. To find your PIN number and enroll online, or to find a paper form, please see the first link above. A confirmation of your elections will be sent to your home address as listed in PeopleSoft sometime in June, 2009.


Technology Update:
We are progressing with the move of our server functions (except III) to virtual machines at ITS. We recently provided ITS with the information they need regarding our software. These servers will be newer, and have a better back up model. Instead of having several physical servers we will have many applications running on partitioned areas on one large server at ITS. We will continue to have full access to our applications.
We will take over the maintenance of the Learning Commons hardware and software the week of May 18th. The Commons may be shut for a day or two during the switch. Also Doug returned after a week of training, and a week of vacation and we are glad to have him back.

Learning Spaces Committee:
A wiki site has been set up for the Learning Spaces Committee/Learning Commons project. Please take a look and feel free to post comments in the “discussion area. ” For an update on where the project is, please see the minutes from the last meeting. In that meeting we identified ideas which could be implemented soon and are gathering the information we need (cost, staffing, etc.) to do some of these things. The projects we are considering are:
· Writing Center Desk
· Technology Help Desk
· Collaborative Technology Area
· Area with in depth information about the project
We are also trying to reach out to different colleges in order to involve them in this project.

Technology Strategy Committee:
We are working on a technology strategy plan. We have a wiki site and have posted several examples of library and university technology plans. Our assignment for the next meeting is to come up with a table of contents for the plan. At the next meeting we will finalize the areas we want the plan to cover.