Minutes of the LAUC-SB Executive Board
December 11, 1997

Present:  Patrick Dawson, Chair; Carol Gibbens, Jim Markham, Janet

Martorana, Sherry DeDecker (recorder)

Guests:  Cecily Johns, Detrice Bankhead



Meeting convened 8:10 a.m.



1.  Music Librarian Search

	Bruce Tiffney sent a request to the LAUC-SB Executive Board that

music faculty be allowed to participate in the Music Librarian search

committee. This was in response to a request from Professor Prizer, Chair

of the Music Department. 

	Faculty have not been on librarian search committees for the past

10 years; prior to that, faculty were represented as non-voting members.

Librarians have participated in some faculty searches.

	

	ACTION:  Martorana and DeDecker will draft a letter

from the LAUC-SB Executive Board to Tiffney stating that we have no 

objection to Professor Prizer being a non-voting member of the Music

Librarian search committee, and that it would be useful to have librarian

participation on their faculty search committees.

	

	ACTION:  CAAR will investigate the issue of faculty being

non-voting members of Librarian search committees.  CAAR will decide if

procedures need to be changed.



2.  Library Long Range Plan

	Johns discussed plans that LEC is making for proceeding

with a plan for the Library.  Johns, John Vasi, and  Bankhead met

with Tiffney to discuss this, and to advise him of action taken by

Library administration in the past to improve the Library budget and put

the Library into campus planning for new building/renovation.

	1996/97 is the first year that chancellors on individual campuses

have been given the authority to decide how funds will be spent on their

campus; prior to that, funds for the Library were distributed based on a

formula developed by UCOP several years ago.  As a result of the funding

structure change, Joe Boisse and John Vasi made a budget presentation to

the Vice-Chancellor and the Deans, and requested additional funding for

the Library.



	ACTION:  Johns will check with Vasi to see if he and

Boisse made a similar presentation to the Academic Senate Executive

Board, a recommendation made by Bruce Tiffney during the October Senate

Library Committee meeting.



	Johns, Vasi and Bankhead are beginning

planning for a long-range plan for the Library.  Tiffney recommends

that the plan be ready for presentation to the Vice-Chancellor by early

March.

	It will be a 3 - 5 year plan, to be updated at least every three

years.  The plan will begin with a historical statement of library

budget requests.  It will contain updated mission and goals statements,

and contain a vision statement.

	Vasi is working on an explanatory document, to be sent

to LAUC-SB within the next week.  He will chair a Steering Committee, to

consist of a member of LAUC, staff, Library academic, and faculty.  

	The draft plan will be distributed to committees within the

Library, asking for feedback and top priorities.  



	ACTION:  Dawson will send out a call for nominations for

LAUC representation on the Steering Committee for Planning to

LAUC-SB membership.



3.  Library renovation/new building

	In the meeting Johns, Vasi and Bankhead had

with Tiffney, they suggested that Vasi be advanced as a potential

member of the CCP - Capital Planning Committee.  Tiffney indicated that

would not be possible.

	Vasi is sending Tiffney documentation on efforts of Library

administration to include a new Library building in the campus plan.

	LEC is planning to prepare a presentation making a case for a new

or renovated building based on services:  classrooms, increased electronic

faciltities, etc.  They are considering asking for a new science building,

as that would increase chances of funding or finding potential donors.  

LAUC-SB Executive Board suggested they also consider the possibility of

advancing the idea of a teaching library.

	 Gibbens suggested gathering student statistics to help

justify such a proposal.



ACTION:  Dawson will ask LAUC-SB members for ideas for a new

building or renovations. 



ACTION: LAUC-SB Executive Board will form a Steering Committee to advise

LEC on a new building/renovation proposal. 



Meeting adjourned 9:10 a.m.