LAUC-Santa Barbara Business Meeting, March 19, 1999

The meeting convened at 10:00 a.m.





Announcements





The LAUC Executive Board will meet at UC Riverside on May 25. 


The LAUC Spring Assembly will convene on May 26 at UC Riverside.


You can register by email at:


http://library.ucr.edu/lauc/LAUCSpring/Registration.html


 


Agenda


 


1.  LAUC Executive Board Update  (S. DeDecker & L. Snowhill)





The LAUC Executive Board submitted the approved proposals on 


salary steps to the University of California Office of the 


President(UCOP).  Academic Personnel Director Myron Okada is 


preparing an analysis to be distributed to the Vice Chancellors


before their meeting at the end of May. 


 


B. Tiffney, Chair of the UCSB Library Senate Committee sent 


a strong letter in support of the salary request to UCOL. 





K. Lucas. LAUC president, would like to meet with each campus


administration.  K. Lucas plans to send a delegation of five people to


meet with UCOP.  The delegation will be comprised of K. Lucas, Patsy


Inouye, Heidi Hutchinson, AUL of Personnel from one of the campuses and a


librarian 5 from one of the campuses.





Action:  S. DeDecker will arrange a meeting between herself, K. Lucas, 


S. Pritchard, and EVC Nagel.








2.  LAUC Bylaws 





The LAUC Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction had asked 


each division to review their Bylaws to ensure that they comply with


the Bylaws in light of the new University Librarians Advisory 


Structure.  Membership decided that our Bylaws are in compliance


with the present statewide advisory structure.





A discussion ensued about the inclusion of the specific names of 


committees established in the statewide Bylaws versus generic names.


Several members voiced their opinion that our the statewide Bylaws


should reflect the specific names of committees established under 


the new library advisory structure.  





Action: S. DeDecker will inform the LAUC Executive Board that our


membership feels that names of specific standing committees should 


be retained in the Bylaws.   








3.  LAUC Website protocol





After the guidelines were handed out, a discussion ensued about


certain portions of the guideline.  Specifically, some LAUC members


would like to see some policy regarding email attachments: that messages


containing attachments should also be sent out in plain text and not as


an attachment, to ensure that those whose computers lack the appropriate


software would not be excluded.  Other members suggested some revisions in


certain parts of the guideline for clarity and meaning.





The guidelines are located at, http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/wwwpolicy.html





Action:  S. DeDecker will send membership comments regarding the 


LAUC Website policy to the LAUC Executive Board.








4   LAUC-Santa Barbara Committee Reports





  CPD  (N. Llamas)


 


   No action item





  CAP  (L. Korenic)





   No action item





  CAAR  (S. Curtis & S. Edgerton)





   The short list for the Head of Access Services has been sent to


   Personnel to schedule for interviews.





  Program Committee  (J. Martorana)


 


  S. Pritchard met with S. Curtis, C. Johns, J. Martorana, and J. Vasi.


  It was decided to make the conference a collaborative project


  with faculty. 


    


  Action:  The program committee will establish a conference committee


  that will include faculty members and will set a future date


  for the conference.


   


  A future program on the guidelines for public computer use in the


  library is currently being planned. 


 


  The Stewart Shapiro talk on his research in humanistic pyschology is 


  set for April 13 in the Mary Cheadle Room.  The talk is open to 


  everyone.





 


5  LAUC Statewide Reports


 


Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction  (Y. Blue)


  


The Committee has three charges. 


1. Review and recommend to the president and the Executive 


Board changes to the Bylaws in light of the new library 


Structure.





2. Review and recommend to the President and the Executive 


Board changes to the Division's Bylaws to ensure that they 


comply  with the Bylaws in light of the new university 


librarian advisory structure.





3. To recommend an administrative structure appropriate for 


to the maintenance and promotion of the web site.


 


The complete text of the charges is at:


http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/crj/index.html


 


Committee on Cultural Diversity  (Barbara Ceizler-Silver)


 


The Committee will review the "Many Voices Report" with regards


to sexual orientation issues.  The Committee hopes to pull 


together a brief history along with the text and have this 


information available from the Cultural Diversity website.


   


Research and Professional Development Committee  (P. Dawson)





The committee met in Oakland to discuss the research proposals 


submitted this year.  $12,965 went to units and $50,969 to non-units.  


One non-unit proposal was denied because one of the applicants


is a committee member.





 


New Business


 


S. Curtis suggested the idea of having more library representation in 


campus committees in addition to the committees that we already have 


representations. A list of all standing senate committees was 


distributed.  S. Curtis encouraged  members to join any


of these committees.


 


S Curtis noted from discussion between her and B. Ceizler-Silver that


Sponsoring a diversity / ethnic dialog would be a timely program to 


hold at this time  


 


S. DeDecker asked for comments from membership on the idea of acquiring a 


separate LAUC-SB budget for programming and other LAUC-SB related events, 


similar to other LAUC divisions.  


 


Although tangential to the issue of LAUC-SB budget a discussion 


on the issue of affordable housing in Santa Barbara was raised 


by several members.  L. Korenic felt that the difficulty in


attracting and retaining librarians is in large part a salary issue,


but it is also tied to lack of affordable housing in Santa Barbara 


and/or lack of alternatives to choose from in the form of housing.





S. Guerena mentioned a program called Coastal Housing Partnership 


program.  It is a local program that, through participating banks, 


assists first-time home buyers with reduced escrow cost rates and 


second mortgage financing.  UCSB employees qualify for this program;


librarians should avail themselves of this opportunity. The contact


person is Corby Gage at 969-1025.


 





The meeting adjourned at 11:00 a.m.