Executive Committee Minutes 02/25/2019

LAUC-B Executive Committee

February 25, 2019, 9:00am - 10:30am

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Present:

ExComm:  Randal Brandt, Marlene Harmon, Jane Rosario, Naomi Shiraishi, Kiyoko Shiosaki, Melissa Stoner

Guests:  Jean Dickinson, Corliss Lee

Absent:  Brian Quigley, Gisele Tanasse

1. Announcements

(none)

2. Continuing Business

  • Social Justice Event Planning Task Group, second event (Jean Dickinson and Corliss Lee, guests
    • J. Dickinson and C.Lee gave brief recap of the first SJEPTG event, January 31 Brown Bag on "What’s in a Subject Heading?  Confronting Metadata Bias".  It was a well attended, successful event.
    • Discussed ideas for the second of the three events SJEPTG is tasked with organizing.  The group's charge specified that the second event would be a public event on search engine bias, however the Berkeley Center for New Media is sponsoring a talk by Safiya Noble on March 20 so another public talk on the topic would be duplicative.  Instead, the group asked and received the permission of the Executive Committee to show a webinar on Social Justice in Technical Services, scheduled for March 14.  A third event, about educating our users about search engine bias and metadata bias, will be held in the Fall before the LAUC-B conference in October.
  • LAUC-B Conference Committee update (M. Stoner)
    • Venue - the Brower Center has been reserved for October 4, 2019
    • The committee has two possible candidates for keynote addresses.

3.    Reports

  • Treasurer (R. Brandt)
    • The current balance is $82,241.96
  • Monthly UL meeting (J. Rosario)
    • J. Rosario and N. Shiraishi met with J. MacKie-Mason on February 7.
      • J. Rosario and N. Shiraishi reported on the January 31 SJEPTG event.
      • J. Rosario and N. Shiraishi asked about the Staff Development Committee.
      • Discussed non salary retention strategies for librarians, including making travel reimbursement easier. J. MacKie-Mason is supportive and welcomes ideas from LAUC-B.
  • LIBR meeting (N. Shiraishi) (2/7)               
    • Update on status of Elsevier negotiations
    • Update on contract negotiations for represented librarians. Status of request that academic freedom be specified as a right for librarians be included in any new contract.
    • N. Shiraishi reported on a UCOP appointed working group, “Working Group on Privileges, Protections, Obligations, and Responsibilities of Non-faculty Academic Appointees, in relatIon to APM-010 (Academic Freedom) and APM-015 (The Faculty Code of Conduct)”. The working group will produce a recommendation regarding academic freedom for librarians, probably before summer. The working group includes one Library representative, Roger Smith, LAUC statewide president. 
    • Open access policy for dissertations.  Faculty expressed the following concerns about the open access policy:
      • The cost to graduate students of having their dissertations published
      • Copyright issues, particularly for images and videos included in dissertations 
      • International copyright
      • Plagiarism
  • LAUC statewide conference calls (J. Rosario) (1/17 and 2/7)
    • Courtney Hoffner, new LAUC Webmanager,  wants divisions to keep their rosters absolutely current.
    • “Barriers to Engagement”, Roger Smith, LAUC President, will use  information from the various divisional events held last year on this topic to form a basis for discussion at the Statewide Spring Assembly at UC Riverside on March 28.
    • LAUC statewide election:  there will be 2 candidates running for Vice President/President Elect.
    • Roger Smith reported on the UCOP Working Group on academic freedom for UC librarians.
    • The Committee on Professional Governance reported that Position Paper 5 is being edited.  It will be discussed at the Spring Assembly at UC Riverside.

4.    New Business

  • Non-salary retention strategies (J. Rosario)
    • How LAUC-B can do more to welcome and acknowledge new hires.  Suggestions discussed :
      • Provide a formal listserv just for new hires.
      • Compile Best Practices resource.
      • Coordinate monthly meetings of new hires - new hires lunch group.
      • Expand and develop more robust mentoring program.
    • Action item:  (J.Rosario will work with mentoring coordinator on these ideas)
  • Approval of new members for the Research and Professional Development Committee
    • ExComm approved adding the following members to the Research and Professional Development Committee:
      • Jianye He (2021)
      • Kendra Levine (Affiliated) (2021)
      • Haiqing Lin (2021)
      • Susan McElrath (2020)
      • Liladhar Pendse (2021)
    • Local coordinator for LAUC statewide social media (J. Rosario)
      • Peggy Alexander from UCLA would like to be notified of, and post LAUC- B’s events, programs and newsworthy developments to various social media platforms. Discussion of best approach to this request.
      • Acton item: (M. Stoner will talk to K. Levine about submitting information about the October LAUC-B conference to P. Alexander)