LAUC Santa Barbara
General Meeting
November 1, 1996
Minutes

The meeting began at 9:00 am in MIL with a demonstration of Project 
Alexandria by Randy Kemp.

After a brief break the business meeting was called to order by Chair 
Rosemary Meszaros. Randy Kemp was welcomed as a new member of LAUC.

The Many Voices report of the statewide Cultural Diversity Committee 
was discussed briefly. LAUC members were given the opportunity to 
respond to it. The report will be discussed at the statewide LAUC 
executive board meeting and the Fall assembly, Nov. 7 and 8. Nerea 
Llamas is the LAUC-SB representative to the Cultural Diversity 
Committee.

UC Digital Libraries Initiative. 
	Dick Lucier will be speaking about the UC Digital Libraries 
Initiative at the Fall assembly, Nov 8. The LAUC executive board has 
been given a draft executive summary but was asked not to distribute it 
until the report has been improved and made more readable. Margaret 
Gordon of UCSC was the LAUC representative to the Digital Libraries 
Working Group.  Karen Andrews of UC Davis is the LAUC 
representative to the Digital Libraries Initiative.

Fall Assembly is November 8 at UC Berkeley, preceded by an executive 
board meeting November 7. Lucia Snowhill and Rosemary Meszaros will 
attend both meetings. Yolanda Blue and Beverly Ryan will attend the 
assembly.

Committee chair reports:
	1995-96 reports are on the LAUC pages on Infosurf. Brief reports 
were given at the meeting

CAAR (Nelson) - 2 searches are underway. Candidates for the Head of 
Cataloging are being invited to campus for interviews. The Curator of 
Performing Arts position closes on December 
1.

CAP (Bullard) - Review packets for this year are being distributed.

CPD (Dedecker, reporting for Huber) - The call for research proposals 
has gone out, with a deadline of October 1.  The LAUC statewide 
Research Committee reviewed these proposals on Friday (same day as 
LAUC-SB meeting), and will decide whether a second call will be issued. 
Chuck has travel fund balances. $200 was added to each librarians 
travel budget for this year, for a total of $500. Travel by car is now 
reimbursed at 24 cents a mile. Tammy has mileage to various cities.

Program Committee (Dawson) - Soliciting suggestions for the spring 
conference. The conference may not focus on technology this year.

LAUC-SB executive board met with Joe Boisse on October 10, 1996. 
Rosemary provided a summary:

Staffing Plans
	May soon begin recruitment for Christine Oka's position
	A temporary librarian may be hired for Adan's position
	Head of Cataloging search is moving ahead, there is a good pool 
of candidates
	Curator of performing Arts advertisement is out
	1 or 2 more positions possible, no decisions will be made until 
after the review is complete and recommendations have been received

Future of the internship
In compliance with UC Policy, it can no longer be called a minority 
internship.  The internship will be examined.
 
Library Review
	The external review team will be here January 16-17, there will 
be 4-5 people.The self study document is still in process, the campus 
review committee has made requests for more information. When it is 
final it will go online.

Automation plans 
		4 integrated system vendors will be back again in 
January/February
		Moving from terminals to PCs in public areas is anticipated 
regardless of the system selected
		More public access to the web is needed
		E-reserves is popular among students and RBR staff. 
Printing is still free.
		Additional support staff will be needed
		Project Alexandria is progressing. Talks are underway with 
Microsoft to provide storage for terabytes of data and sufficient 
computing power to implement the project.
		The UC wide digital library project was discussed. 

The acquisition of another large collection of recordings, mostly 
operatic, was discussed.   The owner will help arrange for donors to 
provide money for purchasing and processing by UCSB. 

Very brief reports from members of senate committees were given. The 
following LAUC members are on Academic Senate committees:
	Carol Doyle - Committee on Effective Teaching and Instructional Support.
	Sally Weimer -  Affirmative Action Committee
	Wei-Ling Dai - Library Committee
	Rosemary Meszaros, Lucia Snowhill - Faculty Legislature
	Beverly Ryan - Committee on Computing, Information Technology, 
and Telecommunications Policy

Announcements:

There will be a Celebration of Communities event Nov. 9-16. Posters are 
available from Sally.

Elections returns will be available on the web, see the Political 
Science page.

We were reminded about the continuing education program co-sponsored by 
the library and Housing and Residential Services. Flyers are available 
from Coni.