LAUC-B Executive Committee turnover meeting Thursday, August 13, 2009 10 am - 12 noon 303 Doe Library Present: Armanda Barone, Judy Bolstad, Susan Koskinen, Corliss Lee, Jennifer Nelson, Lisa Ngo, Margaret Phillips, Sandy Tao, I-Wei Wang I. Introductions of outgoing and incoming members II. Announcements -Next Gen Tech Services team will be visiting campuses. Armanda and Emily Stambaugh (CDL) will be holding an early-bird for staff at the Berkeley campus on September 1st to talk about the teams projects. II. Overview of a Year of LAUC-B Business - Peer review - Professional development events 2-3 per year, one of which is a peer review workshop - Townsend Fellow - LAUC Statewide research grants - Mentoring program for new librarians - Administer professional development money - Representation on LAUC statewide committees - Vice-chair is a guest at Academic Senate Committee meetings - Chair and Vice-Chair meet monthly with the University Librarian - Monthly conference calls between statewide and campus chairs - Produce four assemblies a year Two Affiliated assemblies and two general assemblies - Produce a conference every two years and the Distinguished Librarian Award every two years (in alternating years) - Chair, Vice-Chair, and Past-Chair meet once a month - Library representatives oversee Librarian interview lunches and the New Librarian Mentor Program - LAUC-B Wiki o Contains information for Chairs, committees, and other members; documents processes and duties o Wiki will be integrated into the new LAUC-B website o Each committee has a page on the wiki o Corliss will send out URL and password to Ex-Comm III. 2008-2009 in Review A. Year in Review - Professional Development Committee organized several good Brown Bags: Two peer review workshops, one in the Fall and one in the Spring, Web 2.0 Tools, and one well-attended workshop on Professional Development Funding. They also revised and clarified the Professional Development web page. - LAUC-B pushed to expand what professional development funding could be used for, resulting in LBS creating a pilot project for the 2009-2010 year allowing LAUC-B funds to be made available for association memberships - Townsend Fellow Brown Bag Jim Spohrer is Townsend Fellow starting Fall 2009. Librarians need more support for research and funding; another Brown Bag is suggested for Spring to help prepare librarians for Fall applications. - Nominations and Elections Committee experimented with electronic voting. - Diversity Committee is working on Staff Mentoring program. Will present to Ex- Comm in September. - Conference Committee is making progress in planning for Fall conference. - Affiliated Librarians held two assembles this year; speakers were Ken Haycock from San Jose State University Library School and Laine Farley. - Ex-Comm held a new librarians reception in Spring 09. - LAUC-B website is being reorganized and moving to Drupal. All pages will be assigned to a Ex Comm and committee chairs for updating. - Two successful assemblies: Fall Assembly guest was Prof. J. Burrell of I-School, Spring Assembly guest was EVCP G. Breslaeur. - LAUC-B blog: members are encouraged to post information on presentations attended and new librarians are encouraged to introduce themselves. - Ex Comm surveyed members about their opinions on using technology as an alternative to travel. Lisa Ngo and David Eifler created a spreadsheet listing some alternatives to travel that will be posted on website. - LAUC Statewide turnover meeting will be at UC Berkeley on Monday, August 17. - LAUC Statewide Assembly will be at UC Berkeley on December 3. - Issues that will continue into the 2009-2010 year include online elections, alternatives to conferences/online conferencing, the LAUC-B web site, Mentoring Task Force, professional development funding, and the use of volunteers in the library. - Career Compass (see C. below) B. Professional Development Funding - The LAUC-B budget process was explained and there was some discussion about Professional Development funding for 2009-2010. Decision/further discussion was postponed until all of the new Executive Committee members can be present. C. Career Compass - Job standards in question: Library Professional 4. Concerns that job responsibilities overlap with Librarian responsibilities. - Current Ex-Comm will follow up with HR about other concerns, then incoming Ex-Comm will take over. Concerns remain about Library Supervisor 2, and Library Manager 2,3 positions. - Incoming Ex-Comm Chair and Vice-Chair agree to let current Chair and Ex- Comm follow up and put concerns on record. - bSpace site will remain for others to use. IV. 2009-2010 Preview (Margaret Phillips) - Housekeeping o Margaret will send out a message to confirm with the incoming Executive Committee that meetings held on the second Thursday of each month. (Lisa: has MP confirmed this?) do not conflict with anyones schedule. o Reflector will have new members added by September 1. - Goals & Objectives o Online elections o Cal-cierge: new position created by campus to help new faculty members; campus is amenable to allow Cal-cierge to help new librarians also. Ex- Comm will make contact with the position. o Continue working on Professional Development allocations o Continue working on website o Possibly assemble a task force to look how to add an online element to the LAUC-B Conference o Charge a committee to start planning for 2011 LAUC-B Conference o Charge a committee (that, hopefully, includes a member of Ex-Comm) to plan local arrangements for the Statewide Fall Assembly on December 3 o There is a pilot to pay for LAUC members membership fees out of Prof. Development Funds; out goal is to move this out of the pilot phase and into regular operation o Charge a committee for the 2010 Distinguished Librarian Award o Invite Diversity Committee to give an update on their programs and charges o Members are encouraged to send Margaret names of potential speakers for the Fall and Spring Assemblies.