Present: Sylvia Curtis, Sherry DeDecker, Andrea Duda, Carol Gibbens, Janet Martorana, Eunice Schroeder. Bev Ryan sent regrets. Also present at the invitation of the committee was UL Sarah Pritchard.

The meeting convened at 3:30 p.m.

Sylvia stated that meeting with the UL on a regular basis will promote productive communication between LAUC-SB and the administration. Sarah expressed her willingness to attend LAUC-SB Executive Committee meetings regularly.

The main topic of the meeting was mentoring. Sylvia began by outlining various mentoring issues that might productively be addressed: LAUC-SB's desire to work toward a strong mentoring environment in the library for both entry-level and mid-career librarians; training in mentoring skills for reviewers, supervisors, and others; mentoring by individuals other than primary supervisors; and the role of the personnel office in mentoring efforts.

Sarah then spoke, expressing the importance of mentoring and of LAUC-SB's unique role in promoting successful mentoring as well as professional development more broadly. She addressed some of the many issues surrounding mentoring: at different career stages, individuals may require different types of mentoring; there are short-term and longer term types of mentoring; mentoring can be geared toward a very specific issue, question, or purpose, or it can be more general; supervising, though related to mentoring, is not precisely the same thing. Sarah pointed out that while entry-level librarians are often hooked up with a mentor, those at mid-career may find the opportunities for constructive mentoring relationships more elusive. She also addressed mentoring specifically geared toward achievement of the distinguished step. As a specific action that LAUC-SB might take to promote mentoring on all levels, she suggested programmatic sessions that would address some specific mentoring needs and target different audiences, including student assistants and support staff considering librarianship as a profession, librarians at various career stages, and reviewer/supervisors.

Following Sarah's comments, the committee further discussed the need for a mentoring program, and there was general agreement that a mentoring series would prove useful. The possibility of the Program Committee and WOM working toward implementation of the series next year was discussed.

Other issues were discussed as well. It was decided that LAUC-SB would submit a statement to the Senate administration endorsing the Senate Resolution on the Library Capital Project, to be brought before the Senate on May 31. Sylvia will send the resolution out to the membership for comment and present a draft endorsement statement to the LAUC-SB executive committee. Janet Martorana reported on the Senate task force on reorganization. Currently proposed is that the large number of Senate committees be reduced; instead, there would be several councils with oversight of broad areas. Although Sarah Cline, chair of the Library Committee and a member of the task force, is working to ensure that will be a place in the new senate structure for focusing on library issues, librarian representation is a concern. Eunice will bring up this issue to the Library Committee. In addition, LAUC-SB will make a formal statement.

Sylvia proposed a LAUC-SB program for viewing and discussing the video on librarian demographics. Planning for this program will go forward.

The next membership meeting will be held on May 25. At this meeting, the slate of nominees for next year's LAUC-SB Executive Committee will be presented, and that same day, the secretary will send out ballots for the election on June 8.

The meeting adjourned at 5 p.m.