Library board: First meeting

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Our library board met for the first time at the end of May. We are pleased that we can thus strengthen our connection to the research world in the future.

UB Zurich has now been in existence for half a year. As a young organization with 40 very different locations and around 180 employees, we are still growing together. Some things are already playing together, but there are still many construction sites that we are constantly working on.

So we are pleased to have recently been able to strengthen our ties with the UZH institutes: At the end of May, our “Library Board” met for the first time, a strategic committee with representatives from all faculties and stands. The Library Board accompanies our building process and helps to steer the operation of the new UB.

Composition of the Library Board

The Library Board is chaired by the Vice Rector Professorships and Academic Information, Christian Schwarzenegger. At the first meeting, Prof. Raji Steineck was elected vice chair.

Voting members

• Christian Schwarzenegger (Chair)
• Raji Steineck (PhF, Vice President)
• Agatha Guirard (WNW)
• Leonhard Held (MeF)
• Benedikt Korf (MNF)
• Bettina Lennstroem-Bosli (ATP)
• Hanspeter Naegeli (VSF)
• Konrad Schmid (ThF)
• Andreas Thier (RWF)
• Ulrich Woitek (WWF)
• Marc Winter (FFL)
• Alia Slater (Students)
  
  

Members without voting rights

• Daniela Koller (BibPers)
• Wilfried Lochbühler (UB, Deputy GF)
• Rudolf Mumenthaler (UB, Managing Director)
• Klaus Oberauer (PhF)
• Christian Oesterheld (ZB)
• Sebastian Scholz (PhF)
  
  

Tasks and competences

The rules of procedure of the library board form the basis. These rules define the following tasks of the Library Board:

• Strategic control
• Identification of strategically important topics, definition of priorities
• Review of the SLA and its further development
• Approval of project planning
• Opinion on legal bases
• Consultation on reorganization of library locations
• Financial management
• Distribution of acquisition budgets: Approval of the UB Directorate’s proposal by the DA.
• Acknowledgement of EFP proposals of the UB
  
  

Results of the first meeting

At the 5/23/22 meeting, the above tasks were discussed and fleshed out. It was agreed that the Board would meet three times a year. The UB Director provided a review of the first few months of the UB, reporting on what is working well and the challenges that continue to face the UB and its staff. Feedback from faculty and the stands was then discussed.

The Library Board expressed constructive criticism and at the same time praise to the staff for what has been accomplished so far. As a result of the first meeting, it was noted that on the part of the UB we are considering how we can better inform the UZH-internal public (researchers, teachers, students).

Rudolf Mumenthaler, Director