Executive Committee Meeting 10/15/03

Ilan Eyman (BIOS) has been appointed to the Executive Committee as Library Representative. Congratulations Ilan!

As noted earlier, the Statewide LAUC Fall Assembly will be held at Berkeley on December 5, 2003.

The local LAUC-B Fall Assembly will be held on November 13, 8:30-10:00 a.m. in the Morrison Room. Clifford Lynch will be the guest speaker.

LAUC’s budget was submitted to Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost Paul R. Gray for approval.

Per request of Jim Ronningen (Chair, LAUC-B Committee on Professional Development), LAUC will sponsor refreshments at the upcoming CAPA workshop, October 30, 2003, at Ed/Psych.

The reception to honor this year’s Distinguished Librarians, Bette Anton (OPTO) and Beth Weil (BIOS), will be held on November 17, 2003, 4:00 –6:00 p.m., in the Morrison Room.

ExComm’s own Lincoln Cushing will be featured next month at the Morrison Library’s artist series, "(art)ists@library."

B.    Meeting with the University Librarian (A. Urbanic/C. Tarr)

C.    Senate Library Committee Report (C. Tarr)

The Senate Library Committee did not meet; they will meet Monday, October 27, 2003.

Chris Tarr reported on the Statewide LAUC Executive Committee meeting, carried out via conference call. Most Statewide committee positions are filled. The next meeting will take place on November 3, 2003, at 2:00 p.m.

Names were forwarded to Karen Butter (UCSF), convenor of the University Librarians group, for the Library Technical Advisory Group (LTAG) Representative.

Statewide committee chairs and charges were discussed.

At the University Librarians’ meeting, the ULs conveyed that they are interested in discussing substantive issues with LAUC, such as privacy and information literacy. The University Librarians also discussed the issue of a statewide roster.

Another issue came up about expanding LAUC membership to other employment classifications, but the criteria are not clear. There is discussion about honoring recent retirees at the Statewide Fall Assembly.
 

Discussion continued regarding the recognition of all retirees from the Library and Affiliated Libraries. Susan Wong and Jon Solomon offered perspectives from the Library Human Resources Department and the Staff Development Committee, respectively. It was agreed by all that the Holiday Party is not a good venue for retiree recognition. Jon felt that the issue was out of the SDC’s purview. Susan felt that certain aspects fit LHRD’s role, but the issue raises questions of ownership and money – what group will "own" the event, and how can it be funded?

It was acknowledged that most retirement celebrations take place at the local level, funded by the staff involved. Some options for a larger recognition of retirees include:

• Recognizing retirees at an Early Bird or function similar to an Early Bird; this would allow flexible timing and relative ease of logistics, but would exclude the Affiliated Libraries
• To announce retirees at the LAUC-B Assemblies; this would acknowledge librarians from the Library and Affiliated Libraries, but would exclude other Library staff
• To alternate years for LAUC-B-sponsored receptions for new librarians and retiring librarians, but again, staff not in the librarian series would be excluded

B.    Determination of LAUC-B Augmentation to the Travel/Research Allocation

Augmentation to the money provided by the Library for travel and research will be $700 per LAUC-B member for this fiscal year.

Action: Linda McLane will announce this to the LAUC-B membership via email.

Discussion tabled until next meeting.

Discussion tabled until next meeting.

B.    LAUC-B Web Master

Randal Brandt (BANC) was accepted as LAUC-B Web master by acclamation.