LAUC-B Ex Comm - meeting minutes - 2/9/22 10 am -12:00 pm
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Present: Susan McElrath, Kate Peck, Jose Adrian Baragan-Alvarez, Ann Glusker, Sine Hwang Jensen, Ramona Collins, Christina Velazquez Fidler, Lara Michels, Kendra Levine, Celia Emmelhainz
I. Announcements
- None
II. Member questions/concerns
Suggestions for questions for upcoming meetings with the UL
- None
III. Reports
- Treasurer (L. Michels)
- December expenditures: $1840.50
- Employee development and training: $1080.00
- Conferences: $140.00
- Memberships: $620.50
- Out-of-State Travel: $0
- Total expenditures FYTD: $7,394.36
- 2021/2022 budget still awaiting approval
- Comments: 2022/2023 budget (upcoming) should include funding for Distinguished Library Award reception
- December expenditures: $1840.50
- Meeting with UL (S. McElrath)
- LIBR meeting (C. Emmelhainz)
- LAUC statewide conference call February 14 (S. McElrath)
- Is it okay to add Statewide Officers to our listserv? If so, what settings should we use?
- Statewide officers requested ability to post to local LAUC listservs
- We have the ability to add them to LAUC-B list with post-only permissions (not receiving LAUC-B emails)
- ExComm in favor of adding the statewide officers
- Susan will bring feedback to statewide conference call
- Is it okay to add Statewide Officers to our listserv? If so, what settings should we use?
IV. Continuing/Outstanding Business
- Survey on Town Hall follow-up
- Summary of Survey Results
- UL Response
- Response deemed “lackluster.” Not clear whether UL fully understands the nature of the complaints about his comments at the townhall. Falls back on free speech and “business purposes” without evaluating the effect of that.
- When he declares the libstaff list for “business purposes” does he more accurately mean “administrative purposes”?
- How can LAUC-B connect with the Library’s DEIB committee? Reminder that this new committee includes external campus stakeholders (e.g. students, faculty, etc.) and won’t be entirely internally focused
- For Library’s DEIB committee: unclear about role of affiliated libraries, which have already been doing a lot of work in this area
- Told to trust the process for dealing with future speech issues, but it’s unclear what the process is. Harm is being perpetrated without consequences. Need for greater transparency. What role could LAUC-B and/or LAUC play in this?
- There is a lot of reliance on the new standing committee, but there is only so much that committee can do. This needs action and drive from leadership.
- Suggestion: LAUC-B holds leadership accountable for following up on DEIB initiatives.
- How can we support each other? When these issues come up, it often feels isolating because we’re each dealing with harm/impact alone. HR processes are confidential, but our experiences can be shared.
- How to involve staff? ExComm minutes are available on open web. Should we remove quotes from public report? No, we indicated that quotes might be shared outside of ExComm
- Send results to SDC chairs to determine how best to follow-up with staff
- Need for contact list for all library workers (staff and librarians) for professional discussion. Only problem is who will manage. Can LAUC-B take this on?
- How would membership be managed? Opt-in only
- Will it be moderated? It would likely need to be
- Next step: gather subcommittee to develop purpose, scope, and community guidelines
- Volunteers: Sine H., Kate P., Jose Adrian B-A.
- Put on March ExComm agenda to have the group report back on progress
- Need to allow members to set up email “digests” daily or weekly to limit amount of email coming through
- Need to make Library work being done on RJTF recommendations, and now LAUC-B recommendations, more visible (maybe include in weekly newsletter)
- Response deemed “lackluster.” Not clear whether UL fully understands the nature of the complaints about his comments at the townhall. Falls back on free speech and “business purposes” without evaluating the effect of that.
- Spring Assembly
- Theme: Celebrating anniversary of Diversity Committee
- Format: Speakers and Breakout Rooms
- Date: April or May
- Need to send out a poll to ExComm and Amber Lawrence for date/time (Abby S.)
- End of April/early May timeline
- Avoid Eid
- Schedule: typically 90 minutes
- 30 min for LAUC-B business (includes nominations work)
- 1 hour for themed content
- Critical Librarianship Reading Group
- Keeping current time slot
- Changing roles: convenor and facilitator
- Christina V. F. will remain convenor until July 2022
- Convenor can be from outside Committee on Diversity
- Keep group within LAUC-B Committee on Diversity, but open participation to all library workers
- Need a name change to make it more inclusive of staff other than librarians?
- LAUC-B Getting to Know You Mixer
- Kate P. needs help organizing from someone inside University Library
- Tables for different group representatives
- Snacks and socializing
- Option: Bechdel Terrace (outside of Engineering) was used for a baby shower and worked well
- Next step: Kate P. works with someone to identify venues
- LAUC-B has funding for space rental
- Abby S. volunteered
- Will report back in March
V. New Business
- Nominations & Elections Committee - Slate for 2022/23 election
- Statewide nominations due in May
- Nominations and budget will need to developed in next two months
- Recommendation: can use LAUC-B PD funding to sign up for online classes/webinars (like Library Juice Academy, Coursera, etc.)
- Can LAUC-B Committee on Diversity put forward proposals for workshops to fund collectively? Research and Professional Development Committee has a budget that can be used for this kind of programming. Reach out to RPD chairs.