LAUC Santa Barbara
Executive Board Meeting
January 28, 1997

Present: Rosemary Meszaros (chair),  Patrick Dawson, Andrea Duda, Chuck Huber,
Catherine Nelson, Beverly Ryan, Joe Boisse


Three items were on the agenda for discussion with the University Librarian:

Library Programmatic Review
	
	The status of the review is that the external committee that was here 
January 16-17 is to write a report to the campus review committee. The 
campus review committee will then write a report for the vice-
chancellor. Dates or deadlines are unkn

own at this time.  The University
Librarian said that he would keep LAUC informed as 
information becomes available.

Fundraising/Development Activities

	Most efforts are organized around the Friends of the Library where 
the focus is on collections and donors. This year documents and 
information are being prepared to raise money for the purchase of a 
large record collection. (The owners of the

 collection are looking for
 donors to purchase the collection for UCSB.)
	No capital campaign is in place. Major gifts and donations are
 obtained through quiet cultivation which can take years. Efforts are 
focused on Special Collections, which receives almost no state funding.
	The Foundation Board is participating in a feasibility study for a 
campus capital campaign.
	Davidson Library endowments have a market value of about $2,000,000 
(value of principal):

Skofield		$600,000	Printers collection 
Wyles			$300,000	Lincoln and the Civil War era 
Monaghan		$200,000	supplement for Wyles Collection
Eugene & Suzette Davidson	
			$150,000	Nazi era Germany (will eventually include his 
					personal collection)
Bernath			$160,000	American diplomatic history
Pearl Chase	  	 $20,000	Santa Barbara area environmental issues and 					history
Corle		 	 $80,000	Corle lecture 
Donald Davidson		 $36,000
Levy 		 	 $13,000	general
Lotte Lehmann	 	 $10,000	being set up now
Shiers			 $80,000	History of technology, trade catalog,  book   
					restoration for Special Collections
Library memorial Endowment	
		 	 $13,000	other memorial donations
Library Special Endowment
		 	 $36,000	other miscellaneous gifts

 
There is no long term strategy.  The lack of professional schools makes
fundraising more difficult.

Personnel

	The Archivist for the Performing Arts position  has closed. Interviews
will probably begin in February.
	Ads have gone out for the permanent reference position. This will be 
a regional, rather than a national, search.
	Additional positions will not be planned until after the review 
report is received.

Systemwide news 

Joanne Euster will be retiring from Irvine in a few months.

UC and CSU are discussing loading CSU data on Melvyl. They are also 
discussing a joint Tricor contract. (Tricor is the commercial courier 
service for ILL)

CSU will soon be accepting bids or proposals for some kind of systemwide 
union catalog.