Minutes of the LAUC-SB Meeting April 10, 1998

 

Agenda Items:

 

Item 1. Minutes from November 14, 1997; December 5,1997;

February > 20, 1998; March 5, 1998 were approved. > >

 

Item 2. CAAR: Janet Martorana

a.Janet proposed changes to the "Procedures for Appointment

and Review, Librarian Series, University of California, Santa Barbara":

II.  Appointment Procedures.  Changes address special temporary

appointments  and clarify CAARs role in these appointments. Addendum to

Section II which  addresses Target of Opportunity appointment has been

deleted.

 

Motion to approve changes passes unanimously.

 

b.Recently, the issues arose regarding informed solicitation of

information about candidates who are applying for UCSB professional

librarian positions.  The discussion centered around the appropriateness

of this practice and the  need for formal guidelines if it is prohibited.

No formal guidelines currently exist on campus or in the library

regarding this practice. Issues discussed include  information obtained

not necessarily being shared with other committee  members, the

candidate's privacy, and possible legal ramifications, and if faculty

continue to play a role in the search process, how to address what is

considered standard procedure for some.

 

Action Item: CAAR should

investigate and develop scenarios for general consideration. Possible

outcomes: written guidelines for the search process; meeting with

counsel to discuss legality or ramifications of these inquiries. This

will be an agenda item for the next business meeting.

 

Item 3. CAP: Carol Gibbens

 

Peer reviews are in progress. They will be done by April 17, 1998.

 

Item 4. CPD: James Markham

 

Surplus travel money for 97/98 will be divided amongst travel requests

received by June 1st. Since requests can not be changed after

travelling, requests should include all charges even if traveller has no

funds left. Sylvelin requested that guidelines for surplus travel money

appear on the CPD web site.

 

Action Item: Jim will send out a reminder via email with the deadline for

requests. He will also add the guidelines to the web site.

 

Item 5. Professional Governance Survey: Patrick

 

Patrick summarized results of survey. LAUC is working on demographics

breakdowns.

 

Discussion ensued surrounding LAUC's role vis a vis salaries & steps.

LAUC position on this matter was defined in the Criteria Posistion Paper

I. LAUC can recommend changes to salary & steps, however, it would be

most effective to recommend changes to the Criteria Postion Paper.

 

Recommendations will be discussed at the LAUC Assembly.

 

University Librarians support added steps.

 

Item 6. LAUC-SB Conference:Customer Service Excellence

 

The conference is free for all library employees, however everyone needs

to register.

 

Item 7. LAUC Assembly

 

Send responses to the Assembly Program Questionnaire to Patrick or

Sherry for discussion at the Assembly.

 

Item 8. LAUC Program Meeting:

 

Ron Tobin will meet with LAUC Friday April 17th to discuss his role in

the library and to answer questions.

 

Item 9. New business:

 

Discussion of new building project. The faculty does not seem to be in

agreement with Bruce Tiffney's proposal.

 

Discussion continued about LAUC's role vis a vis the building proposal.

 

Action Item: Sherry will form a LAUC-SB building task force.

 

Meeting Adjourned.