LAUC-B Executive Committee Meeting
Thursday, April 19, 2007
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon
303 Doe
Present: Lucia Diamond (Chair), Armanda Barone (Vice Chair/Chair Elect), Lily
Castillo-Speed (Past Chair), Jennifer Nelson (Secretary), Harrison Dekker (Treasurer),
Susana Hinojosa (Library Representative), Jean Dickinson (Library Representative),
Susan Garbarino (Affiliated Representative)
Guests: Josh Schneider, Claude Potts
I. Announcements
• Claude Potts welcomed and introduced to ExComm
• UCSF thanks Chris Tarr and Jane Rosario for helping them with their peer review
process. Chris and Jane did a wonderful job and provided invaluable input and
assistance.
• LAUC Statewide Assembly will be held at UC San Diego on May 30th.
• LAUC-B Spring Assembly will be held on May 1st in Morrison Library.
• The IST (Information Services and Technology) division of Berkeley’s
Information Technologies Organization oversees four departments, one of which
is Data Services. The Data Services department “Provides stewardship of both
academic and administrative data, as well as tools for data presentation,
visualization, analysis, and collaboration. Helps prepare the campus for the
convergence of IST, Library, ETS, and appropriate external providers” (source:
http://ist.berkeley.edu/ist-division/). The question was raised during the meeting
of what was meant by the “Library” and how librarians are or should be involved
in these discussions.
• Entertainment reimbursement request form has changed! Make sure you use the
updated Proposal that the process be changed so that the host submits the new
form, signed and receipts to the treasurer.
II. Reports
A. Treasurer's Report (H. Dekker)
Budget balance: $117,011
B. Meeting with the University Librarian (L. Diamond and A. Barone)
• Tom Leonard had several good suggestions about how to get more nominations
for the Distinguished Librarian award.
• He also provided input about the upcoming LAUC-B conference and the
Townsend Fellowship.
C. Committee on the Library, Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate (A.
Barone)
• Distinguished Librarian award was publicized. Charles Upshaw will distribute
call for nominations to the department chairs.
• Tom Leonard gave an update about the NEH grant to the Bancroft Library to
process the San Francisco Examiner photographic archive.
• There were 15,000 visitors to the Botero Exhibit.
• Pat Maughn discussed the proposal to reconfigure Moffit Library as teaching and
learning space.
• Upcoming campus colloquium announced. Topic is about building community
and undergraduate education. It will take place May 2nd and will be sponsored by
the Chief Information Officer and the Committee on Teaching and Learning.
• Daniel Greenstein, University Librarian and Executive Director of the California
Digital Library (CDL), will be assuming new system-wide responsibilities as Vice
Provost - Academic Information and Strategic Services, reporting to Wyatt R.
(Rory) Hume, Provost and Executive Vice President. A national search will be
conducted for his replacement at CDL. LIBR will invite VP Greenstein to attend a
future meeting to discuss his new duties and how he hopes to influence
communications at UC system-wide and nationally among peer institutions.
• UC, in collaboration with CDL, is moving forward with system-wide electronic
Theses and Dissertation repository. University Librarians to discuss this at their
May 27th meeting.
• Open access policy under system-wide senate review.
• Library collections budget was discussed, including impact of continuing flat
budget cycles.
• New East Asian library building discussed. Japanese cataloging is currently
outsourced; in-house expertise needed.
• Renovation of Law School: Larger Law/Business connection is on hold because
of the BP/Berkeley contract. Law School has an alternative proposal which is
currently under review.
• Issue of shrinking library spaces on campus discussed.
III. Statewide LAUC Professional Governance Committee (J. Schneider)
Clarification was requested of ExComm on such matters as:
• How often LAUC-B ExComm meets with the University Librarian;
• How professional development funding dispersed to librarians is tracked;
• How best to survey LAUC-B membership about how many meetings and
conferences people attend each year for professional development, and how often
people choose not to go because of the cost burden.
• How best to survey LAUC-B membership about whether they have needed to take
second jobs to supplement their income.
• What are the funding sources and granting processes for LAUC research
• grants?
ExComm gave approval to survey LAUC-B membership about professional development
funding and activities.
IV. Report on UC March 22 conference: Changing the Culture of the Academy:
Toward a More Inclusive Practice (L. Castillo-Speed and various attendees)
Discussion delayed to May meeting
V. DLA Committee (L. Castillo-Speed)
Discussion delayed to May meeting
VI. Townsend Center Library Fellow guidelines (L. Diamond)
Discussion delayed to May meeting
VII. LAUC-B and LAUC Spring Assemblies planning (L. Diamond)
Discussion delayed to May meeting
VIII. New Business
None discussed at this time
IX. Next Meeting (May 10, 10:00 a.m. - noon, 303 Doe)
• Proposal to standardize entertainment reimbursement process for LAUC-B
activities. New process will be voted on at next meeting.
• Agenda items not discussed at this meeting will be added to May’s agenda.