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Minutes of the LAUC-SB Executive Committee Meeting
January 22, 2004
1. Minutes
The minutes of the previous LAUC-SB Executive Committee
meeting and the last LAUC-SB general membership meeting were amended and approved.
2. Follow up on issues from the last membership meeting (Cathy Chiu)
The major item was the library public areas ad hoc
committee. Their work is underway. They need to determine the procedure for
review and approval of their draft report. It will be sent to the general membership
before their next meeting. If approved at the general membership meeting, it
will be adopted as LAUC’s official position and it will be forwarded to University
Librarian Sarah M. Pritchard.
3. Professional Development Committee (Jane Faulkner)
Copies of an e-mail of Jan. 16, 2004 from Sarah Pritchard to Jane Faulkner
were distributed for background reference. The new travel documents have not
yet been completed; it is likely that Sarah Pritchard’s guidelines on use of
funds will be adopted. The committee is close to having a final draft ready.
There was a question about what to do about unused funds for librarians in the
unit who have not spent their $600 allocation per librarian. $15,000 plus should
be re-distributed among the people covered by the contract. The policy would
be the same and would apply to whatever is the amount of allocated funds. The
committee is trying to come up with the proper wording. There are about 30 librarians
in the unit and 10 more are department heads. Sarah Pritchard’s explanations
were considered very reasonable. Jane is waiting for the list of members covered
in the unit. The CPD Chair will continue to review and sign-off as part of the
travel request process. The history behind this is because in a few cases in
the past, some requests had been denied but the criteria state that librarians
are entitled to take appropriate professional development travel.
4. Program Committee (Eric Forte)
Eric reported briefly on the January 21 program featuring
Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas in the Davidson Library.
5. Proposal for a Committee
on Scholarly Communication in the Santa Barbara Division of the UC Academic
Senate (Mary Larsgaard)
This newly proposed committee
is a faculty initiative co-chaired by Professor Albert Lindemann (History) and
Sarah Pritchard. Library collection managers are expected to be in communication
with, and work with their faculty on this. This committee is going to be working
with a UC system wide scholarly communications committee and will come up with
additional recommendations to meet needs by faculty on this campus.
6. Report to the new UC-LAUC President
It was discussed that in view of some staff reductions, a reduction in the
collections budget and potential loss of positions in the next budget cycle,
LAUC, in its advisory role should be involved in the budget planning process
in the months ahead.
7. Library Strategic Plan (this item was tabled for next meeting)
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