Minutes of the LAUC-SB Meeting March 13, 1998

 

 

Continuation of business items from the general membership meeting of

3/6/98

1.  CAAR business

ITEM 1

>From statistics John Vasi presented at the previous meeting, 41 out of

48.75 librarian positions are filled.  The membership discussed various

needs for librarian positions and determined priorities. Based on needs,

the membership unanimously agreed to propose permanent positions for the

two highest priorities: 1) a Humanities/English/writing program librarian

and 2) a Science librarian, to be advertised and filled as soon as

possible.  There is a need for librarians to perform a variety of

functions such as collection development, general instruction and

reference, etc., which should be included in the job descriptions.  The

membership also expressed concern about the need to hire librarians who

have language and/or subject expertise in such critical areas as Islamic,

Asian American Studies, Slavic, and Korean.  There was also a brief

discussion regarding the fragmentation of systems support and the need for

people who can interact well with the librarians.  Since these positions

are not filled by librarians, and our primary concern is for filling

positions in the librarian series, LAUC-SB will address these other needs

separately.

 

ACTION:  CAAR will draft a letter with these recommendations, indicating

priorities as well as the concerns, and will submit it to the LAUC-SB

Executive Committee, which will then send it to LEC, with copies to

Crawford, Tobin, Tiffney, and LAUC-SB.

 

ITEM 2

CAAR submitted recommended revisions to the Procedures for Appointment and

Review, Librarian Series UCSB (http:/www.library.ucsb.edu/lauc/

procedur.html)  The membership discussed and then voted to accept the

following changes:

II. A.  Definitions

        2.  Add - "or a special temporary appointment"

II. A.  2.

    Add - "c.  A Special Appointment is an appointment outside those not

defined in II. A. 2.a. and b."

 

Replace Section II.  Part I. (Special Appointments...)  as well as

the Addendum to Section II.  with the following:

 

Section II. Part I.  Procedures for Special Temporary Appointments

  The University Librarian consults with LAUC-SB, via CAAR, when special

  temporary appointment to the Librarian Series is being considered.  The

  Chair of CAAR is included in discussions which relate to consideration

  of a possible special temporary appointment.  The ad hoc Appointment

  Committee to review applicants to the position includes a CAAR member,

  selected by CAAR.

 

These changes will revise the language of the procedures to conform with

campus policies.  The revisions will fold in the special appointments to

be more in line with procedures of other temporary appointments in the

librarian series.

 

ACTION:  The membership moved to accept the revisions.  Revisions were

approved unanimously.  CAAR will forward recommendations to J. Boisse.

The committee on governance will review.

 

2.  CAP report

C. Gibbens reported that there are 10 reviews this year.

 

3.  CPD report

C. Huber reported that 11 librarians have used all of their funding;  17

have money left; and 3 have not spent any funding.  The statewide Research

proposals have been forwarded.  There are no proposals from UCSB.  CPD is

now on the web under www.library.ucsb.edu/lauc/cpd.html.  One member

inquired about the use of travel funds not encumbered during the fiscal

year.  Does it go into the pot for the next year, or is it redistributed

this fiscal year to LAUC members who still have travel funding needs late

in the fiscal year for qualified travel beyond the projected limits?

 

ACTION:  Chuck H. will follow-up on this and CPD will formulate clear

guidelines. The information will be mounted on the web.

 4.  Professional Governance

C. Chiu reported that the statewide committee is considering options for

changing the Librarian Series, Step V as a "super step" to a regular merit

Step V, and adding steps to the Librarian Series.  Professional Governance

will distribute a survey regarding this matter.  They will compile the

results in April.

 

Historical overview

In 1974 the Librarian Series was modeled after the faculty, which had 6

steps. In 1979 another step was added to faculty to prevent "topping out".

Since 1987, the faculty have had 8 steps and those in the Librarian Series

have 5 steps.

 

A brief discussion ensued regarding the salary survey and the argument for

additional steps to the Librarian series.  With bifurcation, librarian

salaries are slipping.  The survey done in 1996 did not factor in cost of

living, and with current salaries, UC libraries cannot compete as well

with other campuses. The ARL salaries used in the 1996 survey included

administration salaries.  There is no point in conducting another survey

unless the criteria can be changed.

 

5.  LAUC-SB Program Committee

S. DeDecker reported that the program, "Plerking in the Plerkplace" was

well received.  The LAUC-SB Conference, entitled "Customer Service

Excellence," is scheduled for May 22. This workshop is free to all UCSB

library employees.  All are encouraged to attend.  The web pages for the

conference are up and can be found at: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/

conference.

 

6.  Announcements

The LAUC Spring Assembly is scheduled for May 1 in San Diego. The theme of

the Assembly is "How UC Librarians see their future".

 

Dr. Ronald Tobin will speak to the membership early Spring quarter.

 

7.  New Business

ITEM 1

Barbara Ceizler Silver requested that the membership address the issue how

 

to obtain summaries of confidential files (redactive letters).  She talked

about the difficulty she encountered.  The membership expressed their

concern regarding this issue and suggested the following:

        - submit a letter to Academic Personnel on Campus with a copy to

D. Bankhead and LAUC-SB Executive Board and refer to the APM sections 140;

158; and 160 in the letter, which address this issue.

 

ITEM 2

Questions were raised regarding the source of funding for the

Performing Arts position in Special Collections.  The matter will be

referred to J. Vasi.

 

ITEM 3

Questions were raised concerning the development officer position and

obtaining grants for the library.  It was again suggested that we bring in

Alan Moses, College of Letters and Science, to speak to the membership.

It is on the Program Committee's agenda.

 

ITEM 4

J. Martorana, CAAR Chair, announced that there is now a webpage of library

administrative committees [http://www.library.ucsb.edu/committees/], which has a link to LAUC committees.

 

L. Korenic made an announcement about the formulation of a Digitizing

Issues Committee.  The committee will address concerns relating to

copyright issues of digital files and useful databases to mount on the

CDL. She will contact A. Duda to have this information added to the web

committee page. The members of this committee are:  L. Korenic (Chair), S.

Curtis, S. Guerena, L. Hayman, M. Larsgaard, and L. Snowhill.