LAC, Development

Library Advisory Committee
The LAC held its first meeting of the academic year on Monday. Cindy has mailed out the minutes.

Development (fund raising)
During two meetings with Dr. Crist we have discussed strategies for fund raising. I outlined these discussions in my update of September 17 (http://ahslupdates.blogspot.com/). On Monday Jeanette and I met with Dr. Shaun Sommerer, Vice President for Development for the AHSC. Dr. Sommerer is working closely with Dr. Crist on development. He is very excited about a focus on the library for AHSC fund raising. He shared his insights into how best to focus our fundraising efforts and gave us valuable feedback on the materials that we are developing for Dr. Crist. From this point on our development efforts will no longer be channeled exclusively through the College of Medicine, but will be a priority for the entire AHSC development team. Development is always a long-term effort, but we will be laying the groundwork now for future financial gains.

LAC, HTG!

Library Advisory Committee

The LAC met on Monday afternoon. They heard updates on offsite access, the budget situation, the “space committee”, AHSL website statistics and our goals for the coming year. There was good discussion and we got some good suggestions for budget negotiations and for our communications plan.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This will probably be the last update until after the holiday. I hope that everyone has a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving.