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SSMU Library Improvement Fund Committee Winter 2015 Report

EVAN VASSALLO, LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT FUND COORDINATOR 2016-04-07 SSMU LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING

Agenda

What are the LIF and the LIFC? Winter 2016 Committee Activity:

• Outreach efforts
• Targeted proposal solicitation
• New quantitative proposal evaluation system

2015-16 LIF Allocation

What is the LIF? The LIFC?

• The SSMU Library Improvement Fund (LIF) is composed of SSMU student fees

(which alumni donors match) to enrich library resources used by students

• The SSMU Library Improvement Fund Committee (LIFC):
• Allocates the LIF each year
• Consults with students on Library priorities
• Solicits, facilitates, and reviews LIF proposals

Outreach Efforts

General Consultation

• LIF-McGill Library Open Forum
• Whiteboard, with LIFC members, Library administrative staff present, set up in the McLennan-Redpath

connecting hallway

• Free Coffee Tabling Event, McIntyre (near Osler Library)
• Facebook, Listserv, Reddit promotion
• Overall, about 450 people consulted in 2015-2016

Outreach Efforts

Targeted Proposal Solicitation

• Work with people already committed to serving their constituents, strong knowledge of

constituent need

• Departmental, Faculty Society VP Academics
• Student Life Groups – both student- and staff-run
• Lowered initial info requirements, spent more time working with Library, proposal submitters

to get final quotes

• Record 24 proposals received this year

Quantitative Proposal Evaluation

• New for this year
• Eleven weighted criteria in four categories:
• Student Experience
• Longevity
• Accessibility
• Feasibility/Logistics
• Committee members evaluated twenty-eight proposals
• More objective and fair fund distribution

Review 2015-16 LIF Report

Let’s review how the LIF was distributed this year

• See attached report

Closing

• Connect with the Library Improvement Fund Coordinator, Evan Vassallo, at

lifc@ssmu.mcgill.ca