LAUC-B 2023 Spring Assembly Minutes
May 4, 2023, 3-4p, Virtual
- Welcome and Announcements
- New(ish) Librarians Event, May 25th, 2023, 3-4pm. Kate Peck, Jackie Gosselar, and Jen Brown will be presenting. The event will be online and then will be followed by an in-person happy hour at Freehouse from 4:30-6. The event is sponsored by the committee for Research & Development.
- Dorte Anderson is a visiting librarian from the Royal Danish Library. She will be presenting on Wednesday, May 17 at 2pm in Doe 303 and there will be another opportunity to meet her Thursday, May 18, at 9am at Strada.
- Public presentations for the Chemical & Physical Sciences Librarian candidates will be in Doe 303 and online. They will take place May 8, 9, and 19.
- Changes to the Academic Personnel Manual at 210-4 have been proposed. The change that affects librarians is a paragraph on page 29 of the document. Statewide LAUC is working on a response. LAUC-B ExComm will be discussing it at the May 10 meeting and any LAUC-B member is welcome to attend that meeting, share their opinions with an ExComm member, and/or express their opinion directly to appolicy@berkeley.edu.
- New and Departing Librarians – Jesse Silva welcomed the new librarians who have joined LAUC since the fall assembly and acknowledged the departures of Kristen Greenland & Frank Ferko. The new LAUC members are:
- Misha Coleman
- Jessica Tai
- Hannah Tashijian
- Cyrana Dowell
- Nadia Winters
- Michele McKenzie
- Treasurer's Report – Jesse Silva presented budget information for Lara Michels.
- Expenses through Q3 FY 2022-2023
- Professional Development (memberships, travel, conferences,etc.): around $35,000
- LAUC-B Candidate Lunches: $100
- Distinguished Librarian Award/Assemblies: $2767
- Member Programs: $0
- Total of $37,867 out of budget of $70,025
- Other Business
- 2023-2024 budget in process. Will be finalized after July 1 when Library Business Services has updated librarian headcounts.
- LAUC-B will not be asking for funds in the 2023-2024 budget for the LAUC-B conference (which usually happens every other year) because LAUC-B ExComm canceled the conference that was due to take place in Fall of 2023.
- Expenses through Q3 FY 2022-2023
- Nominating and Elections Committee – Kiyoko Shiosaki presented the slate for the next election:
- for Chair: José Adrián Barragán-Álvarez (current Vice Chair/Chair-Elect pro tem)
- for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Christina Velazquez Fidler
- The current Chair, Jesse Silva, will become Past Chair
- for Treasurer: Jackie Gosselar
- for Secretary: Michael Sholinbeck
- for two Library Representative seats: Jen Brown, Misha Coleman
- for Affiliated Library Representative-Elect/CALA Vice Chair: Cyrana Dowell
- The past year’s Rep-Elect/CALA Chair, Kristie Chamorro, will become the Affiliated Rep on ExComm
- Nominating will be sending out a message soon recruiting for committees. If you are interested in serving, please fill out the volunteer form.: https://forms.gle/FsZz7n43MvgyzQ3Q7
- Nominations to be accepted from the floor. There were no nominations.
- Elections will take place in June.
- CAPA Report – Hilary Schiraldi reminded everyone that if you are interested in CAPA service, you need to first serve on an ad hoc committee. There will be a call put out later this year for volunteers to serve on ad hoc committees.
- Diversity Committee – Kendra Levine reported that the Diversity Committee is relaunching the staff membership program as the UC Berkeley Libraries Partnership Program. More information and an invitation to participate will be sent out soon to all librarians and staff. The first cohort of partners will be matched in the Summer of 2023.
- Academic/Research Librarian Values – Susan McElrath provided an overview of this project. Over the last year, LAUC-B members have expressed concerns about the devaluation of their work. As the draft Library’s values statement did not completely address these concerns. ExComm decided to form a small group to discuss research library/librarian specific values. The committee compiled 13 values statements. We incorporated the discussion and retroboard responses from the fall assembly into some of the values. Our next step will be to share them with you for your feedback and discussion. We will be scheduling some listening sessions over the summer. Most likely starting in July. The timeline will be discussed at the next ExComm meeting.