LAUC-B Executive Committee Meeting minutes
Feb 8, 2023, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Present: Susan McElrath, Jennifer Dorner, Jesse Silva, Lara Michels, Jose Adrian Barragan-Alvarez, Christina Velazquez Fidler, Jackie Gosselar, Sine Hwang Jensen
Guest: Kendra Levine
- Announcements
- Due to some confusion around CALA appointments, Kristie Chamorro was incorrectly identified as the Affiliated Representative to LAUC-B ExComm. As the current chair of CALA, Sine Hwang Jensen is the Affiliated Representative. She has been added to the LAUC-B ExComm list and Kristie has been removed.
- The UL asked that we distribute the CoUL’s response to the PI discussion from last year. Apparently it was not distributed across all UCs.
- Reports
- Treasurer (L. Michels) Still has not been able to get an expense report from the Business Office.Lara will be working on a draft of the budget, will meet with Jesse to review it, and then will send it to the business office.
- Meeting with UL (J. Silva) Jeff mentioned CoUL’s letter the PI status and asked that LAUC-B share it. Cabinet has not yet had time to review the responses from the two reflective sessions organized by Nicole Brown and Gisèle Tanasse.
- LIBR (J Barragán-Álvarez) José Adrián shared the minutes of the past meetings LIBR meetings. There was some discussion about the level of detail required in these minutes. José Adrián may revise them based on feedback received. When they are complete, they will be linked from the ExComm meeting minutes.
- LAUC Statewide (J. Silva) No report, as that meeting is not scheduled until next week.
- EIC Update (J. Gosselar) Reported on updates from various subcommittees that were formed in response to suggestions from the Racial Justice Task Force. The subcommittees are: Campus initiatives, Communication, Outreach and Recruitment, Programming, and Spaces. There was discussion about the makeup of the subcommittees and sustainability, the length of member terms, and how to handle turnover. Chairs of EIC subcommittees will be meeting with UL.
- Continuing Business
- No continuing business.
- No continuing business.
- New Business
- Planning Spring Assembly. Discussed having an event centered around research library values. LAUC-B could possibly draft a position statement on how academic libraries relate to research libraries. Will it focus on what we do now or what we could be doing? A small subgroup – Susan, José Adrián, Jesse, and Lara – will do some preliminary work on this.
- We will return to the discussion of the Spring Assembly at the next meeting.
- Future Business
- Possible ExComm/Library Cabinet joint meeting in the spring
- 2025 LAUC-B Conference and volunteer form