At this weeks Monday meeting the main areas of discussion were –
Dawn has had a meeting with the ENSOC President; the Library will establish a user group with students from Engineering and Physical Sciences
A stock check of the PSL book collection has been completed and there are (only) 80 books missing from the collection
The University Architect has promised revised sketches will be available for the Project Control Group meeting on Tuesday
Clarification was sought from the Architect re the non-operation of the Engineering Library over the summer period, the Architect thought staff may be able to stay in the building, this still require further investigation
Dawn and Theresa have calculated that the Library will need three weeks in January to complete all the stock movements
A booksale of duplicated books from the Engineering collection is being organised
A planned message to the students was withdrawn when it was realised that there are a number of issues all coming to fruition at the same time, later this week at a meeting with Ian Town it was agreed that the University should send out a message to the students which included references to the proposed PSL relocation, the closure of the Cave, and the student levy.

The Project Control Group meeting this week focussed solely on the revised plans. The Architect has managed to create 556 formal study spaces and those of us at the meeting spent the time closely working through the seating options. Dawn was able to get a changes made to the plans including one of the Level 2 stack areas as staff feedback had agreed that leaving this area as a seating area would give this greater functionality.

Theresa is gearing up to start a team moving parts of both monograph and serials collections either to storage, from Engineering, Physical Sciences or Central Library or some items that are tagged to go to the Central Library. These moves will take place in the second semester break.

Heather