Executive Committee Minutes 02/10/2021

LAUC-B Ex Comm Meeting Minutes
2/10/21 10am-11:30am

Present: Sherry Lochhaas, Ramona Collins, Naomi Shiraishi, Susan McElrath, Tim Vollmer, Joe Cera, Anna Sackmann, Jianye He
Others present: Kate Peck,  Jose Adrian Barragan-Alvarez, Christina Velazquez Fidler, Claude Potts, Osman Celik, Liladhar Pendse

I. Announcements

  • The University of California has now published the revised copyright ownership policy.
  • Black History Month events
    • Liladhar Pendse will organize a virtual event in celebration of Black History Month February 26, 11am-12:30pm

II. Reports

A. Treasurer (R. Collins for J. He)  

  • 2021-22 budget request to be submitted in March. J. He and R. Collins will meet to discuss.
  • Current balance: $18,610.42

B. Meeting with UL (R. Collins) 

  • Q) How can LAUC-B help celebrate Black History Month, Women’s History Month, etc. How can we collaborate with Library Communications? UL: Library Communications notes these events via Twitter, blogs, etc. Librarians may also submit a form on the Library Communications webpage directly for help publicizing events.
  • Q) How will Library Admin assess librarians’ comfort level with returning to work on site in Fall 2021? UL: We need to gather information, and others are working on this topic as well. Transition will be one step at a time, timeline unknown at this point. 

C. LIBR meeting (S. McElrath) 

  • Focused on the fundraising letter, which was distributed the first week in February.
  • LIBR supports providing study space for students on campus. UL confirms the library is planning to offer study space once in-person instruction begins.
  • Library may open in-person study space by March 1st in floors 4 & 5 of Moffitt, but there are concerns over coordinating space in Moffitt. Library has started looking at EAL for study space as well.
  • Budget savings measure: UCOP is eliminating CDL’s monetary contribution to systemwide journal licenses. Concern over how this extra cost may be passed on to libraries. UCOP will postpone this for one year by using discretionary funds to cover the cost.

D. LAUC statewide conference call (R. Collins)

  • Announced the new UC copyright policy. 
  • R&PD Committee:
    • Two applications were submitted for the second call. 
    • In the process of updating the website to make it easier to apply for research grants. 
    • A survey is forthcoming about how users take advantage of these programs.
  • Nominations Committee: Looking for people to serve on the committee
  • Academic Freedom Task Force: Event in March to discuss Academic Freedom & APM  011 (More information forthcoming)
  • Furlough/RIT delayed: Some campuses heard about this earlier than others, campuses handling budgets differently.
  • UC Research Data and Tangible Materials - UCOP is proposing a new policy.

III. Continuing/Outstanding Business

A. Spring Assembly planning 

  • Chair is considering keynote speaker options and possible dates of the assembly

IV. New Business

A. LAUC-B Committee on Diversity has drafted a Resolution on the Importance of Diversity in Collections. 

  • Christina Velazquez Fidler presented this statement. ExComm discussed the draft, purpose, ideas, and if endorsed how to promote the resolution and possible impacts
  • Committee will work on another draft and share with LAUC-B ExComm for possible endorsement

B. How do we want to save videos such as the LAUC-B Fall Assembly? Zoom cloud is no longer an option. 

  • We increasingly have more LAUC-B videos to save. Ideas: add to YouTube & crawl for archive.org, sharing via Google Drive, Kalthura, where have we stored old videos?

V. Member questions/concerns?