LAUC-Santa Barbara Business Meeting
May 14, 1999

The meeting convened at 10:00 a.m.





Announcements



Welcome to Eunice Schroeder, our new music librarian.



From the comments we received from various people in the library, we had

another successful pizza party.  We have the numbers as a guide for next year.



Plan to invite Sarah Pritchard for our next business meeting



S. DeDecker will meet with S. Pritchard and D. Bankhead, AUL personnel next 

week to discuss the LAUC proposal for adding steps to the librarian 

salary series.  



Reception is set for Sarah Pritchard next week.  About 1400 flyers were 

distributed.  Send the announcement to our departments.



The LAUC Spring Assembly will be at UC Riverside on the 26th of May.



If LAUC-SB members are interested our LAUC president K. Lucas will make a 

visit here to discuss the LAUC proposal.  A delegation of five LAUC members

will meet UCOP in June.  The delegates will be K. Lucas (LAUC president), 

Patsy Inouye (Vice President-President Elect), H. Hutchinson 

(Chair of Committee on Professional Governance), and Rita Scherrei 

(AUL, Personnel, UCLA).





Agenda



1. LAUC-SB Elections:

Nominating Committee: Janet Martorana (Chair), Gary Colmenar, 

Sylvelin Edgerton, and Lucia Snowhill.



The Ballots will be go out on May 28. They are due by June 11.  

The local elections and the statewide elections will be held at the same 

time.  Please review the statewide candidates' statements sent to us 

via email.





2. Program Committee  (J. Martorana)



An orientation meeting is planned for the Kerr Laboratory to look at their 

digitizing lab.  



The Library Instruction Services Committee (LISC) will meet next week to 

work on a library draft policy for disabled patrons.  The LISC will also 

review existing library policy and procedures to ensure that they address 

present patron needs based on recent request from students and faculty.



In regards to a library policy on computer use, a future meeting will be 

scheduled by the Library Administration to develop such a policy for library.





3. CAP  (L. Korenic)



April 26 was the deadline for the review committees to forward all the 

material to the Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel via the Library 

Personnel Office.  Three of the four review committees have finished their 

work.  CAP will be meeting to discuss the review process and local 

procedures.  L. Korenic will try to verify who will have the final signature 

on the review packets (i.e., VC, Academic Personnel or Sarah Pritchard ).  

May 24 is the deadline for the VC, Academic Personnel (or UL) to issue 

letters to the candidates. 



A future meeting is planned to review local procedures in regards to primary,

secondary reviewers and supervisors.  Stanley Awramik has met with CAP 

members 



The committee is planning to work on receiving nominees for the Nyholm 

award this summer.





4. CAAR  (S. Curtis)



N. Llamas reported that we have a short list for the Social Science 

Librarian position.  The letters will be mailed next week.



S. Edgerton gave an update on the Head of Access Services search that is in 

progress.  Remaining interviews are set for May 21 and 24.  Reminder to 

attend the public forums and complete the evaluation forms.



S. Lewis will chair the ad hoc committee, Welcoming, Orientation, and 

Mentoring (WOM) for new members. 





5. CPD  (N. Llamas)



Expect to receive an email about possible extra travel money that we could 

avail ourselves.  Advise members to pass information to everyone about 

bargain airfares to New Orleans.  Most fares have been expensive so far.





6. New Members Task Force  (S. Lewis)



Our first meeting is set for next Thursday at 2:00 p.m. 

at the second floor conference room.  S. Lewis is the task force chair.  

Interested individuals to date are G. Colmenar, S. Curtis, 

S. Pritchard, and Lucia Snowhill.  Anyone else interested should contact 

S. Lewis.  We will take E. Schroeder for coffee on May 19 at 9:30 a.m.  

G. Colmenar will create a link from the LAUC-SB homepage to S. Lewis' 

helpful website for new people to Santa Barbara.





7. Campus Committee Reports



a.  Academic Senate Affirmative Action Committee  (S. Weimer)



S. Weimer gave a progress report on the activities of the committee on the 

following item agendas. 



A survey by committee chair Sharon Farmer on the 

attainment of affirmative action goals and programs through recruitment, 

retention, and cultural diversity programs.  



The committee will review the services to faculty and academic appointees 

with disabilities.  To determine their needs, existing and/or lack of 

services, especially as these issues affect library services.  One complaint 

that concerns the library is the inability of patrons on wheelchair to reach 

books on the higher shelves.  



To participate in early outreach programs to K-12 partnerships supported by 

UCOP initiatives.  To provide educational opportunities to students coming 

from low-income families and to increase the academic enrichment of UCSB 

students by engendering a diverse campus community are the goals of the 

program.  Sarah Fenstermaker is the chair of this program.



The committee will meet with E. Zimmerman, Provost of the College of Letters 

and Science, on May 19 to develop plans on how to broaden the search pools 

in recruitment and to enhance minority selection and retention.  It is also 

crucial that department chairs know about these goals as they have 

Chancellor Yang's full support.



Action:  The Library and Instruction and Services Committee (LISC) will 

work on revising the guide, "Services to Persons with Disabilities," 

to ensure that it meets users' needs.





b.  Faculty Legislature  (S. Weimer)



Chancellor Yang raised the issue of the enrollment process on campus.  

He would like to see more diversity in the student population and would 

like faculty and staff  rise to the challenge. A discussion ensued about 

the need for more LAUC representation in other campus committees.  The 

Academic Senate has included librarians as non-voting member on five of the 

Senate Committees.



Committee on Academic Freedom,  S. Weimer



Committee on Affirmative Action,  Wei-ling Dai



Senate Library Committee,  Wei-ling Dai



Committee on Effective Teaching 

and Instructional Support,  S. Curtis



Committee on Computing Information Technology 

and Telecommunications Policy,  S. DeDecker



In addition, we have seven non-voting members in the LAUC in the Faculty 

Legislature Committee.  They are Gary Colmenar, Sylvia Curtis, Patrick 

Dawson, Sandy Lewis, Nerea Llamas, Janet Martorana, and Sally Weimer.  



The legislature also brought up the problem of lack of parking on campus.





c.  Committee on Effective Teaching and Instructional Support  (S. Curtis)



The awards sub-committee is now waiting for the formal announcement from 

Chancellor Yang for this year's winners of the Distinguished Teaching Awards.

S. Curtis mentioned that the recommendation letters about the winners were 

excellent.  She was also impressed at the broad range of teaching styles 

that many of our faculty and lecturers employ.



New Business:



LAUC-SB would like to show our appreciation to B. Tiffney who has been one 

of the strongest advocates of the library.  A book donation to the library 

in his honor or a plaque were some of the suggestions.  





The meeting adjourned at 11:00 a.m.