LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes
Present: Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, Marcus Banks, Anneliese Taylor, Peggy Tahir, Nina Meechoonuk
Absent: Josephine Tan (Chair,) David Owen, Min-Lin Fang , Judith Kammerer, Amy Andres
LAUC Statewide Committee Reps update
- Research and Professional Development – now Min-Lin
- Professional Governance – Lisa continues her term as rep
- Diversity – we need someone to replace Min-Lin since she is now R&PD rep
Next Gen Technical Services report
Tabled for next time
Research Days Policy Update
Discussion continues…
Transition Meeting Notes
Marcus will now take over as LAUC SF Chair and will be attending monthly conference call meetings
- Lisa is outgoing chair
- Peggy is new chair
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair,) Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, David Owen, Min-Lin Fang , Judith Kammerer, Amy Andres
Absent: Marcus Banks, Anneliese Taylor, Peggy Tahir, Nina Meechoonuk,
“Research Days” update (Lisa)
- Marcus and Lisa met with Gail and Julia to continue discussion on research days
- There is support for the idea and Marcus is drafting a proposal using the following guidelines:
- An initial proposal is requires as well as periodic progress reports
- Not a set number of days, but decided on a case-by-case basis based on project
- Final guideline would apply to all library staff members who have a research/creative activity component in their review
New appointments to Statewide Committees (Josephine)
- LAUC systemwide committees
http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/committees/roster-0809.html#committees - Full overview of committees
http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/committees/
LAUC Executive Board Conference Call highlights (Josephine)
The call will happen next week, so no report today
Library Hours
Josephine shared a letter sent by Karen Butter to the Academic Senate Library Committee outlining the shortened hours that will start in September and noting that alternate secure study spaces will be made available.
SF LAUC Officers
Beginning 9/1, these will be:
- Marcus – Chair
- Michele – Vice-Chair
- Nina – Secretary
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, , Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk, David Owen, Anneliese Taylor, Peggy Tahir
Absent: Min-Lin Fang , Judith Kammerer, Amy Andres
LAUC Local Elections
Ballots were submitted at the meeting. Those absent must submit to Michele Mizejewski, SF LAUC Secretary, before June 23
LAUC Spring Assembly Report
• Marcus, Josephine, and Nina attended at UC Riverside, Palm Desert campus
• Program speakers were Karen Calhoun, Martha Hruska, and Patti Martin
• The agenda, blog, and presentation slides can be found at: http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/
• Twitter was used this time too and comments can be seen by searching for #lauc at http://search.twitter.com/
• The Fall 2009 Assembly will be at UC Berkeley December 3, 2009
LAUC Spring Executive Committee Report (Marcus)
• There was clarification that LAUC is an advisory board, not an affiliate
• Since state election initiatives failed, the budget situation is even worse. There will be cuts in services, hours, resources, professional development funds, etc.
May Committee on Library Report (Marcus)
• There is renewed interest in getting faculty to embrace open-access
• UC will continue working with Google on digitization, though there are still privacy concerns being discussed
LAUC May conference call updates (Josephine)
- Two appointments still needed:
- LTAG, 2-year term (Susan Chesley Perry-SC ends)
- SOPAG, 3-year term (Mary Linn Bergstrom-SD ends)
- Possible elections changes for 2010:
- Post candidates’ statements online and/or distribute as Word documents to reduce print distribution
- Some campuses conducting elections electronically:
- UCLA local election will be paper-based and the statewide will be electronic.
- UCI will be fully electronic; include a local bylaws revision; using their homebuilt CMS polling; will also count no-votes; can only vote once; including option for write-in ballots
- UCD continuing electronic w/ Survey Monkey
Career Compass initiative across the campuses
• Which campuses are interested in Berkeley’s Career Compass initiative?
• Only for non-represented staff employees (for now)
• Would like to have consistency over all campuses, but is it really possible?
Rolling over personal R&PD funds (Anneliese)
Discussed using rollover for ALA which falls in July this time
Mentoring program for library students and new librarians (Josephine)
A survey was sent out to assess interests of possible mentees, and Josephine will compile the data
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk, David Owen, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Judith Kammerer, Amy Andres, Peggy Tahir
Announcements
Nina was awarded a travel grant to attend the LAUC Spring Assembly
"Research Days" discussion
Marcus opened the discussion about research days to fulfill librarian series advancement requirements.
- A systemwide solution is probably unlikely, but we might want to work with Lucia Diamond at UC Berkeley
- Possible approach would be to develop local guidelines in consultation with Nanette and do a pilot
- Guidelines would include periodic reporting to the group on research progress
LAUC Statewide Conference Call updates
Josephine shared updates from the executive board conference call:
- Bloggers are needed for the Spring Assembly
- Fall Assembly will be at UC Berkeley Tentative for early DecemberTwo appointments are needed
- LTAG, 2-year term (Susan Chesley Perry-SC ends)
- SOPAG, 3-year term (Mary Linn Bergstrom-SD ends)
- Moving towards a zero-based budget
- Projected budget for 2011-12 due to Dan Greenstein, UCOP, by NovPeer Review Committee
- Peer review issues on our campuses
- CAPA process improvement (digitizing applicant’s submission)
- CAPA & Campus HR dept (UCLA)
- (UCB) Will be working on a similar task force
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Judith Kammerer, Amy Andres
Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication updates
- Marcus did a demo of Scopus at meeting
- Gail did budget presentation
Scholarly Communications Officer report
- Until the end of June, Janice Contini will continue coordinating UC level scholarly communication issues
- Early discussions about a statewide training effort to make UC librarians more comfortable discussing scholarly communication issues with faculty.
LAUC Statewide Conference Call updates
- Josephine shared updates from the executive board conference call:
- Because project management is an increasingly important skill, a task force has been formed to identify specialists in this area to help train others
- A Remote Tech survey is underway to take an inventory of the facilities at each campus to enable remote meetings
- After several years, new bylaws have been approved. They’ve been streamlined while moving some things to standing rules instead
- All campuses are communicating with the ULs on the budget status via town hall meetings, blogs, and brainstorming retreats
- In light of the budget crisis, salary increases will still happen but will likely be smaller
- How can LAUC help to alleviate the budget crisis? An obvious way would be to have only one assembly per year and alternate the location each year between north/south
Revisiting idea of research days for LAUC members (Marcus)
Tabled until next meeting…
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Min-Lin Fang, Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor, Lisa Mix, Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer
Absent: Marcus Banks, David Owen, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk
UCSF Library Budget update (Karen Butter)
• Karen discussed the budget cuts and how this will affect the library
• Encourage the staff to contribute suggestions on how to save costs and alternative approaches to how things are currently done
LAUC Research Grants (Judy)
• Reminder to turn in grant applications by Monday, March 16th
• So far the R&PD Committee has received 4 research and 4 mini-grant applications
• Grants are funded for projects taking place in the next fiscal year
• UCOP will review the R&PD Committee’s recommendation to have grants fund projects that are still within this budget year
LAUC Executive Conference Call update (Josephine)
• Discussed updates on LAUC Statewide Spring Assembly taking place on May 13 in Palm Desert at UC Riverside
• LTAG committee taking an inventory of what campuses have technologies that can support teleconferencing for virtual meetings
• Irvine’s new AUL for their new law school will be in the LAUC librarian series; the law school is expected to open July 1, 2009
• Davis’ new director of the Biomedical library will be outside of the LAUC librarian series
• AUL’s are not in the librarian series but ARE considered LAUC members
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk, Amy Andres
Absent: David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor, Judith Kammerer
CAPA Update
Lisa Mix noted that those being reviewed should be aware of the upcoming deadlines.
Academic Senate Committee on the Library
Josephine shared notes:
• Karen went over space planning for future at Mission Bay and noted budget cuts
• Ann Dobson gave update on research licensing software
• Committee Vice Chair, Rich Schneider, talked about scholarly communication and how to promote open access here
LAUC Executive Board Conference Call
Josephine reported highlights:
• The UL group has been urged to be open about the budget situation in order to quell librarian anxiety concerning budget cuts
• Brian Schottlander posed a question about what LAUC could do differently in response to the current constraints
• There was a program update for the Spring Assembly: Next Generation Web
• The LAUC Diversity web page is being updated and redesigned
Mentoring
In follow-up to last meeting, we came up with some areas of information to offer them:
• Current librarians can share answer to “what do you wish you had leaned in library school?”
• Outline associations in the library field
• Describe how the librarian fits in at UCSF and note that there is variation depending upon your employer
• Tips on job hunting
• Internships opportunities
Scholarly Communication Update
Marcus reported:
• Janice Contini took 4 month position as Scholarly Communications Specialist to coordinate policy across UC
• Springer Open Choice now available and will need promotion
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk, Judith Kammerer
Absent: Anneliese Taylor, Amy Andres
CAPA Update
Two people from UC Berkeley have been recruited to help with reviews since we have five. They are Susan Garbarino and Linda Vida.
Research Release Time
- EdRef is piloting an informal policy for release time to be utilized in meeting the requirement for the librarian series
- Marcus has also suggested a statewide LAUC policy for this, so that all librarians have equal access to release time
- Discussion of instituting guidelines instead of a “policy” as a better approach?
- Marcus will suggest LAUC-SF policy language after Ed Ref has gained some experience with using release time over the next few months.
Mentoring
- A few months ago, Karen mentioned to Josephine that LAUC should be mentoring library students on staff
- Judy shared a document she uses with student interns called “Issues Specific to Medical Libraries”
- Other ideas included:
- Providing guidance on which professional associations to join
- Add students to any emails we send sharing info about continuing education opportunities
- Before the next meeting, Peggy will write up mentoring guidelines and Josephine will send an email to staff library school students (Quincy, Joshua, Eric, and recent graduate Willy) to find out their interests.
- After this has been underway for a few months, we will report back to Karen
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Michele Mizejewski, Nina Meechoonuk
Absent: Anneliese Taylor, Amy Andres, Judith Kammerer
AGENDA
Debrief of our hosting of the Fall Assembly
Josephine shared comments from the Fall Assembly
Positive highlights:
- Interesting topics, David said best in memory
- Good food
- Keeping the business portion short was a good thing
- Great for LAUC/UL relations that a University Librarian spoke (Brian Schottlaender from UCSD)
- Technology (skype) worked well
- Food set-up was disruptive
- Better management of speaker timeslots needed
- Michele suggested an appointed timekeeper for next time to hold up a “5 minute” and a “2 minute” card to keep speakers to their assigned slots.
Josephine shared some highlights from this small meeting:
- APM versus MOU discussed
- Budget crisis needs to be addressed more fully
- ULs had idea of a creating a LAUC central clearinghouse for expertise/facilities
- Disussion of retention being more a problem than recruitment
- How and if to make the LAUC Assembly blog part of the permanent record
- Spring Assembly at Riverside with proposed speakers Karen Calhoun of OCLC and Heather Christensen, UC Mass Digitization Project Manager
Scholarly Communications Officers Meeting update
- Marcus shared that a temporary contract position will be filled for Planning Coordinator at CDL to centralize this function
- Discussion of how to support education about The NIH Public Access Policy (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/)
- UC Irvine’s page could be a model for a UC-wide resource about the NIH Policy: http://www.lib.uci.edu/scamp/nih-publisher-policies.html
Other
Lisa has requested help from UCB for next round of CAPA reviews
For Next Meeting
Think about Karen Butter’s idea for forming a mentoring program
Present: Josephine Tan (Chair), Amy Andres, Marcus Banks, Karen Butter, Min-Lin Fang, Judith Kammerer, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Anneliese Taylor
Guest: Nanette Grimm Absent: Michele Mizejewski, Peggy Tahir
Announcements
November 7 "Google Search vs. Research" event was a great success. Video will be available soon. (Josephine)
Agenda Items
WASC Accreditation Process (Butter)
UL Karen Butter explained the accreditation process for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), which UCSF is currently engaged in. Process will go forward until 2010.
Librarian Review Process (Butter, Grimm)
UL Karen Butter described the annual librarian review process, and both Butter and MSO Grimm answered questions from LAUC members.
Absent: Amy Andres, Judith Kammerer, Peggy Tahir
Announcements
Josephine will will send an email to Karen to invite her to speak at our next LAUC Meeting to cover what is involved in the review process.
Agenda Items
Fall Assembly (Tan)
a. Josephine will email the State LAUC Executive Board members to get an estimated headcount of how many attendees to expect for the Fall Assembly that UCSF will host in December.
b. Josephine will email Karen to ask her about the library helping to cover the costs of the Fall Assembly.
Google Event Updates (Fang)
a. Mt. Zion library has completed the flyers and posters and also has an email invitation ready to send out.
b. Marcus & Lisa & Min-Lin will email invitation to UCSF groups and post flyers throughout the Parnassus campus.
c. Min-Lin will ask Karen if the Lange Room rental fee could be waived.
d. The event will be videotaped.
e. There will be 60 chairs, three tables for food, and food enough for 80 people. Facilities will have the room set up by 8:30am.
f. Josephine will put in a TrackIt ticket for A/V requests & buy a thank you gift for the speaker.
g. Josephine will contact Karen to ask if she'd like to give an opening comment for the event.
h. Min-Lin will check with Sadie and Julia to see if server has the capacity to host the video online.
Absent: Judith Kammerer, Peggy Tahir
Announcements
1. LAUC Donation to Theosophical Society: Min-Lin will coordinate LAUC donation in memory of Peggy Tahir's husband. If you are interested in contributing please speak with Min-Lin.
2. Min-Lin thanks everyone for their help during her tenure as Chair of LAUC-SF. Everyone thinks she served a great term as Chair. As of September 1, Josephine Tan is the Chair and Marcus Banks is the Vice-Chair of LAUC-SF.
Agenda Itemsa. David Owen has ended his tenure as CAPA Chair, as of September 1. Lisa Mix is now Chair, and Peggy Tahir and Anneliese Taylor are members. Min-Lin Fang is first alternate and David Owen is second alternate.
b. As LAUC Chair, Josephine Tan will contact Nanette Grimm about this change.
a. Statewide Committee on Research and Professional Development: Judith Kammerer, 2007-2009.
b. Statewide Committee on Diversity: Min-Lin Fang, 2008-2010.
c. Statewide Committee on Professional Governance: Lisa Mix, 2008-2010.
a. President: Sam Dunlap, UCSD
b. Vice President/President-Elect: Lucia Diamond, UCB
c. Secretary: Orchid Mazurkiewicz, UCLA
a. UCSF will host Fall Assembly on December 3, and Executive Board meeting on December 4. UC Irvine colleagues will offer advice about hosting, since they hosted the Spring 2008 Assembly.
b. Call for new LAUC Webmaster soon. Apply if you are interested.
c. Continue to book LAUC related travel with the UCLA Travel Office.
d. Sam Dunlap reported that the statewide R & PD Travel Grants proposal has not been approved yet. The R & PD Committee will continue to work on this with
Academic Personnel in the coming year.
a. UC Bibliographic Services Task Force Report
b. Large Scale Digitization Projects, from Research Libraries Group
c. Shared Cataloging Program Funding
d. Ithaka Group Perspective on Digitization
e. Second Life: Use in Libraries
f. Final ideas on topics within the next two months
a. Josephine will call special planning meeting for fall assembly in late September or early October.
b. Library rooms reserved in CorpTime, but need to make official Lange Room request closer to date.
c. Josephine will clarify expenses Library will cover, and other expenses will come from LAUC funds.
d. We will need to build a web site for the assembly. Marcus will ask if LAUC pages can be moved to Drupal. If not we will explore other options.
a. Dan Russell, Google User Experience Specialist, will present in the Lange Room
b. Co-sponsored by LAUC-SF and the Mt. Zion Library
c. Min-Lin will coordinate logistics with Gail Sorrough of Mt. Zion Library
d. LAUC-SF members assigned roles in preparation and on the day of the event; Min-Lin will coordinate our efforts.
e. Will offer refreshments and pastries.
f. Anyone welcome to attend the event.
a. Min-Lin distributed a handout called "Logistics for Event Planning"
b. Some suggestions offered during meeting
c. Please share your feedback with her and she will finalize document.
Absent (Vacation): Peggy Tahir
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Note: Although it took place on June 2, this meeting represents the May LAUC meeting.
- LAUC Statewide Election (Banks)
- Two people running unopposed for LAUC statewide offices, Lucia Diamond and Orchid Mazurkiewicz.
- Banks distriubted ballots and they were returned.
- Banks will ratify UCSF support of the slate before election deadline. - June 13 Marketing Workshop (Fang)
- Very enthusiastic response. Approximately 40 people plan to attend.
- Remaining assignments:
- Coordinate final food details (Taylor)
- Invite Karen Butter to make opening remarks (Fang)
- Make copies of handouts (Fang)
- Send attendee list to Pat Wagner to prepare for MLC CE Certificate (Fang)
- Arrange set-up in the Lange Room (Fang)
- Introduce presenter (Fang and/or Reavie, representing NCNMLG)
- Secure name stickers and folding name plates (Tan)
- Manage flipboard, easels, and markers on morning of event (Tan)
- Greet registrants as they arrive, and check them off list (Mix)
- Call cab for presenter near end of day (Banks)
- Distribute CE certificates provided by presenter (Taylor) - November 7 Google presentation(Fang)
- Cosponsored by UCSF Library/LAUC-SF and H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at Mt. Zion (UCSF)
- Dan Russell, Senior Search Scientist and User Happiness Specialist, will speak.
- Most likely a 2 hour event with light refreshments.
- Main items to coordinate: Food; publicity; focus area for presentation
- More details at future meetings. - LAUC Executive Board Meeting Report (Fang)
- Spring Assembly 2008 a success; will soon begin planning for Fall Assembly, 2008.
- Senate Committee on Library: May Meeting Report (Fang)
- Persily represented some results of ongoing bibliometric project.
- Kochi shared statistical comparisons between UCSF and peer libraries, in terms of collections and physical use of the Library.
- Code of conduct policy passed last fall has improved environment of the Library.
- The Committee has written a letter opposing plans to repurpose the Genentech Hall Library. The letter will be sent to the Head of Academic Senate Committee.LAUC Meeting Minutes – April 16, 2008Present: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Amy Andres, Marcus Banks, Judith Kammerer, David Owen, Lisa Mix, Josephine Tan, Anneliese Taylor,
Absent: Peggy Tahir- Spring Assembly Update (Fang)
- May 7-8, UC Irvine.
- Assembly May 7; Executive Board Meeting May 8
- One local member was awarded LAUC 2008 Spring Assembly Travel Grants in support of her to attend the Spring Assembly
- Further details: http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/assembly/spring-2008-agenda.pdf - Statewide 2008 Election (Fang)
- Calendar now online: http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/elections/calendar-2008.htm
- Local elections will follow this statewide calendar
- David Owen is the UCSF nomination and election chair - Library Marketing Workshop Update (Tan, Fang)
- June 13, 2008, 10 AM-3 PM
- 4 MLA CE Credits Available
- Taught by Pat Wagner
- $25 registration fee, payable to NCNMLG
- Final details still under development - Executive Board Meeting Update (Fang)
- CDL Executive Director recruitment ongoing
- Bob Heyer-Gray, LAUC President, finalized the program for the Spring Assembly - April Senate Committee on Library Meeting Update (Fang)
- Library budget situation major topic of discussion
- Committee members provided suggestions and offered to help
- Genentech Hall library space planning proposal under development
- Webinar re: UC implementation of NIH Public Access Policy on April 17 - Peer Review Update (Owen)
- CAPA review process ongoing
- Statewide Research Proposal Update (Kammerer)
- Review process ongoing
LAUC Meeting Minutes – March 19, 2008Present: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Marcus Banks, Josephine Tan, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Peggy Tahir- Library Marketing Workshop Update (Fang)
- Still finalizing details with NCNMLG, and the PSR Regional Medical Library.
- Fang will explore possibility of awarding MLA CE credit to attendees of the workshop. - CAPA Update (Fang, for Owen)
- CAPA members in the process of reviewing 3 packages for promotion or merit increase.
- LAUC Executive Board Update (Fang)
- May 7-8: Spring assembly and Exec. Board Meeting (UC Irvine)
o LAUC 2008 Spring Assembly Travel Grants will be available to fund 4-8 members to attend the Assembly; information forthcoming.
o Two presentations at the Assembly have been arranged: 1. Stephen Abram from SirsiDynix will talk about Web 2.0; 2. Brian Schottlaender (UL from UCSD) will discuss the report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
- UCSF is the next eligible host for the Fall Assembly.
- CDL Executive Director recruitment ongoing.
- Research and professional development proposals: Statewide committee reviewed 6 proposals this year.
- Negotiations between AFT and University concluded; details not released yet. - Senate Committee on Library Report (Fang)
- UC Cyberinfrastructure report released: Attempt to standardize UC technology purchases.
- Space planning and collection move: Deep committee interest; positive feedback.
- UL Butter reported initial statistics for the faculty liaison program.
- NIH Public Access Mandate: For April meeting, will provide a list of top journals where UCSF faculty publish. - NIH Mandate Related Resources (Banks)
- Brief orientation to NIH Public Access Page: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/.
Marcus Banks
LAUC Meeting Minutes – February 20, 2008Present: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Marcus Banks, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Josephine Tan, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer, Peggy Tahir- Update on Spring Program (Fang)
- Fang gave an update on the planning of hosting a workshop in June this year.
- Action Plan for Spring Program (Fang)
Responsibilities:
- Lange Room Reservation and set-up: Min-Lin.
- Breakfast and lunch orders: Anneliese.
- Registration (except any registration details handled by RML): Lisa.
- Marketing the marketing workshop: Josephine. - NIH Mandate Update (Banks)
- Marcus distributed packet containing UCSF response; Cornell response; and information on a March 7 ARL webcast about the new NIH public access law.
- Gail Persily is coordinating UC response; Marcus reported on activities at different campuses.
- Marcus will communicate with LAUC as plans emerge.
- There is great interest in library staff training about how to deposit an article into PubMed Central. - LAUC Executive Board Meeting Report (Fang)
- Six research applications received this year.
- Spring assembly in Irvine; program planning underway.
- Ongoing discussions about UC proposal regarding librarian role in peer review process.
- Update on the status of search process for the position of the Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information and University Librarian at CDL.
Marcus Banks
LAUC Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2008Present: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Marcus Banks, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Josephine Tan, Peggy Tahir
Absent: Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer, Anneliese Taylor- Updates on UC Proposals (Fang)
- UC President Dynes acknowledged receipt of letter from LAUC president Bob Heyer-Gray regarding LAUC's concerns about proposed changes to the librarian peer review process.
- There is no role for LAUC during this stage of the negotiation process. - Updates on Spring Program (Tan)
- Focus on marketing in libraries.
- LAUC-SF will ask noted speaker Pat Wagner to teach the class "Marketing as if Your Library Depended on It" in June 2008.
- We will seek co-sponsorship with Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (PSRML).
- Following meeting, Chair Fang developed an estimate of costs and submitted them to the PSRML. - Action Plan on Mentoring (Fang)
- 5 people on staff interested in mentoring-Willy Franklin, Eric Peterson, Reuben Ramirez, Joshua Kunkle, Deidra Collete.
- Min-Lin, Josephine, David will set up a meeting with these staff members, to see what they are interested in.
- Peggy will set up a meeting with Marcus and Judy to discuss LAUC; new staff member orientation.
- Internship with San Jose State University students also possible.
- Marcus will talk to Gail about developing an internship.
- Min-Lin will talk to SJSU's library school outreach education coordinator for ideas about how to reach students. - Senate Committee on Library Report (Tan)
- At Jan. 3, 2008 meeting, Karen Butter updated committee on 2nd floor redesign, book measuring and moving, and the new NIH mandate regarding open access.
- Committee members noted the eventual need for additional 3rd floor study space after 2nd floor is transformed.
- Need LAUC volunteer to attend February meeting of this committee on February 7 from 10-11:30, because several LAUC members will be at the regional chapter meeting. Please volunteer to attend this meeting if you can. - CAPA Updates on Proposed Changes to LAUC-SF Search and Appointment Procedures (Owen)
-Nanette Grimm recommends waiting until contract is ratified to make any changes.
- If librarian recruitment commences before the new contract is ratified, Nanette will be willing to discuss changes sooner.
Marcus Banks
LAUC Meeting Minutes – December 19, 2007Present: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Marcus Banks, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Josephine Tan, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Peggy Tahir, Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer (Phone line problems)- Announcements
- Sadie Honey is no longer a member of LAUC-SF
- Marcus Banks is now the LAUC-SF Secretary and Webmaster
- Updates on UC Proposals (Fang)
- Negotiations began Dec. 19, 2007
- Last week Bob Heyer-Gray, LAUC president, sent a letter to UC President Dynes expressing grave concern with proposed changes to the role of LAUC in the peer review process. The letter was copied to UCOLASC chair Crow, Provost Hume, 10 ULs, and Chancellors as well.
- Read the blog to keep apprised of negotiating progress: http://unit17negotiations.blogspot.com/
- Updates on LAUC Binder and Web Site (Banks)
- We will move the LAUC binder to the UCSF Library archives.
- CAPA members will review peer review pages and make any necessary updates: http://laucsf.library.ucsf.edu/guidelines.html
- Min-Lin and Marcus will review and update the balance of the LAUC-SF web site.
- All LAUC members should review the roster page and send updated details to Marcus: http://laucsf.library.ucsf.edu/roster.html
- Brief Report on LAUC Assembly (Fang, Tan)
- Min-Lin and Josephine referred LAUC members to the assembly blog and PowerPoints for information, and are happy to answer questions.
- No bylaws changes approved.
- Blog: http://laucassembly.blogspot.com/
- PowerPoints: http://lauc.ucmercedlibrary.info/presentations.html
- CAPA Updates (Owen)
- Gary Peet from UC Berkeley will be an external CAPA reviewer.
- David submitted proposed changes to LAUC-SF Search and Appointment Procedures to Karen Butter and Nanette Grimm.
- David will follow up with Nanette about the status of these proposed changes.
- Future Program Ideas (Tan)
- Josephine presented several ideas for programs this year.
- Greatest interest in the “Marketing @ Your Library” workshop developed by ACRL: http://liblogs.albany.edu/librarynews/2007/09/marketing_your_library_worksho.html.
- Josephine will contact ACRL to discuss hosting a program.
- Mentoring Program (Fang)
- Peggy Tahir will offer a LAUC overview to Judy Kammerer and Marcus Banks (Librarian-to-librarian mentoring.)
- We should always invite library school students among our staff to relevant events. (Librarian-to-future librarian mentoring).
- Min-Lin will arrange a meeting with all UCSF library staff members who are library school students in January, to learn their professional interests in librarianship.
- With this information, LAUC members can devise informal mentorship opportunities (inviting students to relevant meetings, shadowing opportunities, etc.).
- We can also develop formal internship proposals and promote this opportunity to San Jose State University students. The library has hosted interns before.
- Finally, we can coordinate appearances at career fairs with the help of the regional MLA chapter (NCNMLG).
- During January meeting, we will make an action plan regarding mentoring.
Marcus Banks
LAUC Meeting Minutes - November 27, 2007Present: Amy Andres, Min-Lin Fang, Sadie Honey, Marcus Banks, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: David Owen, Lisa Mix- Min-Lin gave a report on the LAUC Executive Meeting
- There was a discussion there regarding whether people who sit on the Committee on Research and Professional Development could submit proposals
- Min-Lin and Josephine will report on the full meeting at a future LAUC meeting
- Mentoring and LAUC packets for new hires
- Discussed creating a packet for new hires that orient them to LAUC
- Discussed ideas for mentoring – help in deciding what meetings to attend, where to submit papers/posters, etc.
- Updating Web Site & LAUC Binders
- Instead of bios on the Web site we will point to the Liaisons pages for those that have them
- Min-Lin will send a template to Amy & Judy so that they can provide the information for their bios on the site
- People should send information about what statewide committees they are on directly to Sadie, who will update the site
- Marcus will review the LAUC Binders to see if info there should be moved to the Web site.
- Planning LAUC Activity for the year
- Discussion of whether we want it to be campus-wide or aimed at Librarians
- Decided to aim it at UCSF and other local health science librarians, and staff members who are in or thinking of attending MLIS programs
- Decided that workshop should be aimed at giving us specific skills (good use of evaluation tools for example)
- Josephine will look for speakers
- Reminder to send statewide research proposals to David
- Min-Lin will follow up with David regarding status of proposed changes to UCSF Librarian Recruitment changes
Sadie Honey
LAUC Meeting Minutes - October 17, 2007Present: Marcus Banks, Min-Lin Fang, Sadie Honey, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Josephine Tan, Peggy Tahir
Absent: Amy Andres, Judy Kammerer- Min-Lin gave a brief report of the LAUC executive board conference call. This conference call will happen monthly.
- Standing committees do not have new charges – they will continue work on charges from last year
- Discussed recruitment and retention – will be gathering information about recruiting kits in one place
- Bylaw changes were approved by UCOP
- Asking for recommendations for state wide elections
- Fall Assembly is in Merced, Nov 15 & 16. Still working on the program
- Josephine gave a report on the Senate Committee on Library meeting
- Gail, Julia, & Karen gave updates on the Library & shared the powerpoint presentation that had been given to new faculty members.
- Committee showed interest in having the scholarly communication presented in online tutorials
- David passed out a spreadsheet with suggested allocations of R & PD funds
- Discussion of how much to set aside for discretionary funds
- LAUC has submitted requested changes to the hiring process to Nanette, waiting for their response
- Min-Lin suggested that we invite Karen to present on reviews in two weeks
- Marcus announced the brown bag lunch with Bob Ryskamp – a software engineer from Google who will be observing our Google class on Oct 30.
Sadie Honey
LAUC Meeting Minutes - September 19, 2007Present: Amy Andres, Min-Lin Fang, Sadie Honey, Judy Kammerer, Lisa Mix, Marcus Banks, Josephine Tan, David Owen, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Peggy Tahir
Guests: Dr Sally Marshall, Cynthia Leathers, Karen Butter, Julia Kochi, Gail Persily- The role of CAPA in Librarian appointments and reviews was explained.
Dr Marshall shared the role of CAP in faculty appointments and reviews
- Independent review
- See the packet of the person recommended by department for hire
- Dr Marshall almost always follows their recommendation
- If they do not approve of the person they ask to see more information or fully explain why they do not approve.
- Temporary position happens much more quickly – but can only be in place for 1 year
- A brief overview of how faculty are paid was given
- After Dr Marshalll and Cynthia Leathers left
- Discussion of past and current CAPA practices
- Agreed that CAPA/LAUC would review the current procedures and make a request that procedures be changed if necessary
Sadie Honey
LAUC Meeting Minutes - August 15, 2007Present: Min-Lin, Anneliese, Josephine, Amy, Judy
Absent: Peggy, Lisa, Sadie (on leave)- New 2007-2008 LAUC officers
- As of Sept. 1, 2007, the new LAUC-SF officers will be: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Josephine Tan (Vice-Chair), Sadie Honey (Secretary)
- Statewide LAUC transition meeting at UC Berkeley
- Min-Lin and David will attend
- David will be the incoming chair of CAPA in September
- LAUC-SF By-laws [Min-Lin]
- states that CAPA shares in the hiring decision and interviews of librarian series candidates
- Meeting with Sally Marshall - Sept. 19th
-Will discuss what is the role of CAPA
-What is the faculty recruitment and hiring protocol
-What do other campuses do -Discuss the peer review process, appointment, and recruitment - - Min-Lin gave old LAUC-SF documents to Lisa
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - July 18, 2007Present: Min-Lin, Anneliese, Josephine, Lisa, Amy
Absent: Peggy, David, Sadie (on leave)- Local LAUC-SF election
- As of Sept. 1, 2007, the new LAUC-SF officers will be: Min-Lin Fang (Chair), Josephine Tan (Vice-Chair), Sadie Honey (Secretary)
- At the end of August, David will call for volunteers for any vacant positions on LAUC statewide committees. Lisa will be completing her term as R&PD Committee representative - LAUC special election on proposed Bylaws changes
- Josephine will send out to LAUC-SF members the ballots to vote (on 7/20) for the proposed LAUC Bylaws changes. Votes are due by Aug. 3rd. The campuses report will be sent to the LAUC president by 8/15.
- Executive Board Transition Meeting
- On August 21st at UC Berkeley; David & Min-Lin will attend
- Fall Assembly
- Will be held at UC Merced in November - two days; the Executive Board Mtg will be in the afternoon of the second day.
- Spring Assembly
- Tentatively set for May 7th and the Executive Board Mtg on May 8th
- SLAUC Statewide Professional Governance Committee [Amy]
- Send Amy any comments on the relevant library conferences document by July 20th
[Min-Lin chaired the meeting in David's absence]
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2007Present: Anneliese, David, Josephine, Peggy, Amy
Absent: Min-Lin, Lisa, Sadie (on leave)- Peggy's LAUC Assembly summary
- Brian Schottlaender, the UL for UCSD, gave the welcoming talk & discussed the librarian salary issue
- Linda Kennedy of UC Davis discussed the Committee on Committees plan to set governing rules to work in conjunction with the by-laws
- Susan Starr of UCSD and Ben Crow of UCSC spoke on the topic of scholarly communications
- Peggy's LAUC Executive Board Meeting summary
- Lise Snyder (UCLA), LAUC Chair, led the meeting
- Discussed R&PD and guidelines on research projects
- Discussed librarian salary issue - requesting LAUC members feedback to be sent to the executive board
- Transition meeting will be in August, 2007, in Oakland
- Spring Assembly planning - to be some time between April-June 2008 at UC Irvine
- Fall 2007 Assembly will be at UC Merced - planning for a date in mid-November
Min-Lin will be the incoming LAUC-SF chair on Sept. 1, 2007
Action Item
David will draft a letter on behalf of LAUC-SF to send to the Executive Board regarding the librarian salary issue
Peggy is on the LAUC Plans and Policies Committee. The committee is working on the "Defining Public Services" document. The committee is putting together a survey that will be given to all of LAUC at the end of July. They will be identifying trends in public service amongst the UC libraries. This will help with HOPS future planning.
Peggy gave an update on the 2007 LAUC Spring Assembly and Executive Board Meeting that she attended May 30 & 31, 2007, in San Diego.
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - May 16, 2007Present: Anneliese, David, Josephine, Lisa, Amy
Absent: Peggy, Sadie (on leave)- LAUC Spring Assembly [David]
- Will be held on May 30th in San Diego
- Peggy and Min-Lin will attend the Spring Assembly Meeting & Peggy will attend the Executive Board Meeting on 5/31 - LAUC statewide elections [David]
- Will be held on June 6th
- Karen to meet with LAUC [David]
- To discuss a proposal for accreditation of the Western Association of Schools & Colleges
- Annette is setting up a time to meet
- CAPA and librarian recruitment [Min-Lin]
- Min-Lin will set up a meeting that will include the CAPA committee members (Min-Lin, Lisa, & David), Karen, Gail, Julia, and Nanette to discuss what is CAPA's role in hiring for academic librarian positions
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - March 21, 2007Present: David, Josephine, Lisa, Min-Lin, Sadie
Absent: Peggy, Amy- LAUC State conference call on professional development funds [David]
- currently in the data gathering stage of discussing whether or not R&PD funds can be used to pay for professional associations membership fees.
- Report on the Committe on Library [David]
- There is an upcoming UC symposium on the topic of Open Access
- Karen presented her report on the future of the Library
- Library security discussion are still ongoing
- Spring Assembly [David]
- Upcoming LAUC Spring Assembly will be on May 30th in San Diego
- Travel grants are available
- David will be attending + one other LAUC-SF member still to be determined - Conference call of the Committee on Committees, Rules and Jurisdiction [Sadie]
- There are currently five standing committees
- Considering disbanding some committees and having ad hoc committees instead
- Considered combining the Committee on Committees, Rules and Jurisdiction with the Professional Governance Committee, like at UCLA
- The Library Plans & Policies Committee may be better to replace with ad hoc committees
- R&PD Committee will remain a committee
- Diversity Committee will remain a committee and work on refreshing its charge; also considering changing the name that includes diversity, recruitment and retention. Example, "Diversity, Recruitment and Retention Committee"
- Discussions to move by-laws to standing rules
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - February 26, 2007Present: Anneliese, David, Josephine, Lisa, Sadie
Absent: Min-Lin, Amy, Peggy- David will check if there is an upcoming LAUC Spring Assembly
- Update on preparations for the March 5th workshop
- 18 people are currently registered; 7 more spaces open
- NN/LM needs a list of the participants names by Monday, Feb 26
- Lisa will send an invitation to NCNMLG
- Professional Development Funds
- Lisa recommended reallocating unused funds. LAUC-SF members present discussed this and voted to do so.
- Estimated total of $813 + $200 per LAUC member
- Need to spend these funds by June 30th
- $300 covers all of LAUC for conference poster printing costs
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - February 1, 2007Present: Anneliese, Josephine, Lisa, Min-Lin, Sadie
Absent: Peggy, Amy, David- LAUC workshop event "Measuring Your Impact"
- Lisa will coordinate inviting the UCSF Library internal staff, UC Affiliates, & hospital libraries groups
- Josephine will reserve a laptop, projector, projection screen, and wireless mic
- Total budget for event: $700; asking to waive the fee for using the Lange Room
- Event date: March 5, 2007 - 9am-4pm (includes one hour for lunch)
- Sadie will check with facilities about ordering tables and set-up
- Anneliese will check on the food costs from Moffitt Catering
- We will be providing continental breakfast and boxed lunches for 30 attendees
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - January 17, 2007Present: Amy, Anneliese, David, Josephine, Lisa, Min-Lin, Sadie
Absent: Peggy- Update on the workshop - choosing dates and communication with the workshop presenters (SH)
- Top choices are March 5th, 23rd, or 16th
- Gilberto will have a NCBI Training at MBCC - we need to check with the schedule for that class to avoid overlapping with that course
- Volunteers to review the LAUC R&PD grant proposals
- David and Lisa will be the volunteer reviewers
- Sadie has updated the LAUC-SF roster online
- CAPA outside reviewers from UCB
- Min-Lin has contacted some librarians at UCB and is waiting to hear back from them to see if they are interested in being external reviewers for Lisa and Josephine's reviews
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - December 20, 2006Present: Anneliese, Josephine, Lisa, Min-Lin, Sadie
Absent: David, Peggy, Amy- "Measuring Your Impact: Using Evaluation to Demonstrate Value" - hosted byLAUC-SF using professional development funds (SH)
- NN/LM instructors will lead this library evaluation workshop (6 MLA C.E. credits)
- The Pacific Southwest office of NN/LM will cover the cost of the class. We'll cover the food and refreshments
- Prefer a March/April date; 6 hour workshop; 25 people can attend
- Includes a presentation, small group work, discussions (no computer work)
- ACTION ITEMS
- Invite librarians from UCSF affiliates and other health sciences libraries in the UC system, Kaiser, hospital libraries groups
- Need to write a proposal for Karen and Gail to use the Lange Room to host this event
- Check the Lange Room calendar for availability and costs (hopefully will be waived by Karen)
- Check with the Reference librarians' manager to see how reference desk coverage will be handled the day of the event
- Check to see if A/V setup will have to be paid for
- Check with NN/LM to see how registration should be coordinated
- Soliciting outside reviewer for review
- Need to invite at least two external reviewers from a UC campus (UCB, UCD, UCSC?) who will be the third reviewer for either Lisa or Josephine's upcoming performance reviews
- Updating roster on the LAUC-SF web site
- Anneliese will check for the an email that lists the latest changes and send the updates to Sadie to post to the web site
Josephine Tan
LAUC Meeting Minutes - November 15, 2006Present: Anneliese, David, Josephine, Lisa, Min-Lin, Sadie
Absent: Peggy, Amy- LAUC Fall Assembly at UC Davis
- David and Min-Lin attended
- Lisa Snyder is the new LAUC president
- Each LAUC division discussed thought questions that covered recruitment and retention, salary, and standing committees
- Presentation on the history of LAUC
- Afternoon survey question: "Why did you choose to work at UC?" - as an aim to present UC as the destination library to work at
- Do we want to host another LAUC-SF sponsored event as a follow up to the success of the Google Scholar event?
- Yes - we should look for a class that teaches how librarians can evaluate their programs
- Do we want to look for an external reviewer for CAPA?
- Yes - Min-Lin, as CAPA Chair, will look into this
- We need to update the LAUC-SF website
- The LAUCLib email alias includes Karen
Josephine Tan
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, August 30, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Sadie Honey, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan, Amy Andres (Call in)
Absent: Paul Wakeford- Amy Andres, a librarian at Fresno Medical Center Library, updated members on the status of a personnel hiring in Fresno Medical Center Library.
- Keir Reavie will be leaving the UCSF Library for the position of the Head of the Biological and Agricultural Library at UCD. Keir will start his new job on Oct 9, 2006.
- LAUC transition meeting @ UCLA (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese Taylor reported on key topics discussed at the LAUC transition
meeting @UCLA on August 28, including a report on the results of the instructional roles survey.
- Issues discussed at the meeting included: 1) Should LAUC continue to have two Assemblies every year? Having more conference call instead might be a good way to cut travel costs. 2) the best way to arrange traveling to attend LAUC meetings.
- Anneliese also announced that the LAUC Fall Assembly will be held at UCD
and the Spring Assembly 2007 will be at UCI. - Members proposed the following events in 2007 sponsored by LAUC-SF professional and research funds: technical writing, qualitative evaluation of library services
Min-Lin Fang (Secretary)
LAUC-SF July meeting was cancelled.
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, June 20, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Sadie Honey, Lisa Mix, Josephine Tan, Amy Andres (Call in)
Absent: David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- Announcements (Anneliese Taylor)
- An opening professional position in the Library at the Mission Bay campus has been reclassified in the academic coordinator series.
- Local election for 2006-2007
- As a result of the election, Min-Lin Fang was elected as Chair Elect; Josephine Tan was elected as Secretary.
- David Owen, new chair of LAUC-SF, will appoint Committee members in September.
- In addition to being the chair of CAPA in 2006-07, D. Owen will also be the division chair. To avoid a responsibility overloaded for him, Lisa suggested that Min-Lin Fang switch her term next year with David Owen as CAPA chair for this year. D. Owen will be CAPA chair next year. The group concurred Lisa’s suggestion.
- Anneliese Taylor gave a brief report on the LAUC Spring Assembly and Executive Board Meeting at UCLA on June 1, 2006.
- Committee on Library meeting update (Anneliese Taylor)
- Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Washington requested the Committee on Library to review the Library Space Planning Reports. The Committee on Library has prepared the Committee’s findings and comments on the proposed repurposing of the library space and will send the feedback to the UCSF Academic Senate Committee.
Min-Lin Fang (Secretary)
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, May 16, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan, Amy Andres (Call in)
Absent: Paul Wakeford- Announcements (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese welcome new LAUC-SF librarian, Amy Andres at Fresno Medical Center Library.
- Anneliese announced LAUC statewide election will be held on June 7.
Candidates are: Vice President/President-Elect: Bob Heyer-Gray, LAUC-D Secretary: Hohn Sisson, LAUC-I - Spring Assembly will be held on June 1-2 at UCLA.
- LAUC-SF Appointments for 2006-2007 (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese already appointed the Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee, also serving as the Election Committee, will make nomination on the candidates for vice chair and secretary. At the end of August, Anneliese will call for volunteers to fill the vacancies for various Committees.
- Updates on the LAUC-SF web site (Sadie Honey)
- Sadie Honey had made all requested changes to Bios and Added some links requested by the GALEN manager.
Min-Lin Fang (Secretary)
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, April 18, 2006Present: Sadie Honey, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan
Absent: Min-Lin Fang (sick leave), Anneliese Taylor (sick leave), Paul Wakeford- Announcements:
- Welcome lunch with Sadie all set up - April 27
- Election June 7 - candidates were discussed
Local Election should be in June also
- R&PD Funds (Lisa Mix)
- Lisa has a detailed account of expenditures for the Google Scholar event
- There are sufficient funds to cover poster costs for the 3 MLA posters
- All members present agreed that LAUC funds should pay for the three posters
Sadie Honey (on behalf of Min-Lin Fang)
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, March 21, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Sadie Honey, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir , Josephine Tan Absent: Paul Wakeford- Announcements (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese welcomed Sadie Honey on board. The group will set up a welcome lunch for Sadie.
- The Statewide LAUC secretary will send out the candidate slates on April 5th for statewide election.
- BSTF report wanted comments from the group but not from an individual.
- Webmaster for LAUC-SF Site (Anneliese Taylor)
- Minutes: David Owen and Min-Lin Fang will update the minutes.
- Sadie Honey will be the permanent webmaster.
- Remove email addresses from "members" page and use email form or mailto instead.
- Change Roster of Statewide committees link to http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/committees/index.html
- Change "Contact Us" email address to lauc@library.ucsf.edu
- Academic Senate Committee on Library report (Anneliese Taylor)
- The committee had an extensive discussion on scholarly communication. T. Newman thinks the campus should push for open access publishing. Issues on publishing in open access journals were brought up for discussion.
- Julia Kochi reported generic clinical tool bars on GALEN.
- The committee expressed their great concerns on library space reallocation.
- The committee members reviewed the White papers on Scholarly Communication. The main discussion was about copyright issues. In principle, the committee supports the white papers, but they have some concerns on small issues.
- Anneliese shared a copy of the "Commentary on SCSC White Papers: Reviewers from Outside Academic Council Channels" with the LAUC-SF members.
- Lisa Mix updated the R & PD funds.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, February 21, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan
Absent: Paul Wakeford- Announcements: (Anneliese Taylor)
UCSF Fresno Librarian Search: CAPA has written a letter on the candidate who came for an interview.
- Google Scholar Event wrap-up (Min-Lin Fang)
Min-Lin thanked everyone's help to make the Google Scholar event a big success. She also updated the members how we would up load the event tape on the Library's web site.
- Bibliographic Services Task Force report (Anneliese Taylor)
Anneliese will find out about sending responses individually.
- Instructional Roles Survey (Anneliese Taylor)
The Instructional Roles Survey was originated by Kari Lucas at UCSD. A LAUC Instructional Roles of Librarian Ad Hoc was formed in late 2005 and will give a final report on survey results in the Spring Assembly, 2006.
Min-Lin Fang (secretary)
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, January 17, 2006Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir , Josephine Tan
Absent: Paul Wakeford- Google Scholar Event (Min-Lin Fang)
Min-Lin Fang gave a detailed update on the preparation for the Google Scholar Event to be held on Jan 25.
- Academic Senate Committee on Library meeting report (Anneliese Taylor)
- Scholarly communication: The Academic Senate Committee on Library members were concerned about the effects of publishing in open access journals on faculty's promotion. Members encouraged more recognition on publishing in Public Access Journals and on new types of peer-reviewed teaching materials, such as the HEAL (Health Education Asset Library) initiative. The committee chair will discuss this issue with Chair of the Committee on Academic Personnel.
- K. Butter expressed Library's interest in holding a series of workshops on scholarly communications. She suggested the Committee on Library co-sponsor the workshops and the Committee agreed. Faculty suggested a three- hour symposium in the late afternoon followed by a wine-and-cheese reception.
- K. Butter solicited input from the Committee members on the faculty survey questions.
- K. Butter gave an update on the progress of the Library Space Planning Group.
- PubChem vs. American Chemical Society (ACS) ACS has been trying to shut down PubChem to protect their own ACS product. The Committee agreed to form a Joint Taskforce with the Committee on Academic Freedom to strategize about the ACS' recent actions. A committee member would represent the committee to work with K. Butter on this issue.
- Fall Assembly report (Anneliese Taylor, David Owen)
LAUC Fall Assembly was held in Nov @UCSC. Two issues discussed at the assembly were: 1) How to use tech to decrease future travel costs; 2) by-law changes: By law proposed changes were voted down. It was suggested to put procedural by laws into standing rules.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF December meeting was cancelled
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, November 15, 2005Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie, Josephine Tan
Absent: David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- Announcements (Anneliese Taylor)
- LAUC Fall Assembly registration will end on November 21.
- LAUC research grant proposals are due to local Research and Professional Development Committee chair on January 11, 2006.
- Librarian review packages are due to review initiators on January 13, 2006.
- Anneliese Taylor solicited any comments on the revision of the LAUC Bylaw by December 1.
- The Academic Senate Committee on Library meeting (Anneliese Taylor)
- Kier Reavie gave a demo on the new clinical resources tool bar on GALEN.
- Karen Butter (UL) continued to discuss the issues on library space. K. Butter distributed a report to the planning group in Sep 2005 and the group requested more of a short term plan. A new group is being convened. Executive Vice Chancellor Eugene Washington requested a report focusing on the second floor of the library.
- Karen Butter announced the Google Scholar presentation to be held on January 25 and the availability of the UCSF Instructional Grants Program for instructional improvement projects.
- K. Butter announced that beverages are now allowed in the library. However, the patrons must use a spill-proof container.
- Kathleen Cameron discussed the Google Print Library Project and Yahoo's Open Content Alliance and their copyright implications.
- LAUC website (Peggy Tahir)
- Peggy reported that the LAUC-SF web site has not been moved to the library server yet. She announced the new URL for the site is http://laucsf.library.ucsf.edu/minutes.html
- Google Scholar event PR (Min-Lin Fang)
- Min-Lin reported that Karen Butter (UL) has approved our proposed budget to pay for the cost of the Google Scholar event. K. Butter also approved the proposed timeline on publicity for this event.
- Min-Lin announced the titles of the speeches by two speakers:
- Anurag: "Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective."
- Peter Bradley: "CDL Collaborations in Transforming Online Scholarly Resources."
- Annelliese Taylor has ordered all refreshments for the event.
- Meeting with Sally Marshall (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese will schedule a meeting for her and David Owen to meet with Sally Marshall, Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, October 18, 2005
Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), David Owen, Josephine Tan, Peggy Tahir
Absent: Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie, Paul Wakeford- Announcements (Taylor)
- Google Scholar Event Updates (Fang)
On behalf of the LAUC members, Min-Lin submitted a proposal to University Librarian to co-sponsor the Google Scholar event with the Library. Min-Lin announced that the date of this event has been changed to Jan 25, 2006, 10-noon.
- LAUC-SF Website Moving to the Library Server (Taylor)
Anneliese reported that the LAUC-SF web site will be moved from the ITSA server to the Library server. She also reported on the details of the agreements between the Library and LAUC-SF. LAUC-SF needs to appoint a permanent webmaster to maintain the site. Peggy Tahir volunteered to be the temporary webmaster before the permanent webmaster will be appointed. A special meeting will be set up to review the site.
- UCSF Fresno Medical Center Library will be hiring a librarian.
- Librarians who will be reviewed this year must submit their review package to their review initiators by Jan 13, 2006.
- Statewide Research and Professional Development (R & D) Committee calls for research grant proposals. Proposals are due to local R & D chair by Jan 11, 2006.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, September 20, 2005
Present: Anneliese Taylor (Chair), Min-Lin Fang (Secretary), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Josephine Tan
Absent: Paul Wakeford- Announcements and Reports (Anneliese Taylor)
- Anneliese reported on the LAUC transition meeting and the amount of R & PD (Research and Professional Research) funds for this fiscal year.
- Anneliese will send the travel policy to the group for review.
- Fall Assembly will be held on December 1 at UCSC; Spring Assembly will be held on June 1 at UCLA.
- Send local LAUC meeting minutes drafts to lauc@library.ucsf.edu for corrections; Send final minutes to lauclib@library.ucsf.edu for distribution.
- Google Scholar Event (Min-Lin Fang)
Min-Lin reported that both quest speakers Peter Brantley and Dr. Anurag Acharya will be available on Nov 15, 10-noon to give their presentation. Dr. Acharya, the principal engineer for Google Scholar, will speak on "Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective." Peter Brantley of the California Digital Library will address "CDL Collaborations in Transforming Online Scholarly Resources." The members decided to name this event "Google Scholar and the Changing Research Environment." Min-Lin also gave an estimate on refreshments from the Moffitt cattery.
- Academic Senate Committee on Library meeting (Lisa Mix)
- Karen Butter (UL) distributed copies of the Synapse, including an entire section featuring the library. She thinks Synapse is an effective channel to let students know what's going on in the Library.
- Scholarly communication: K. Butter stated the library's support of scholarly communication and the library has renewed its membership with BioMed Central. She announced that the library's scholarly communication website will be launched soon.
- eScholarship Initiatives: The Library is currently working with other UC faculty to let them know that they do have rights for their publications and how they can retain some of these rights.
- New GALEN workstations have been rolled out and the downloading function has been blocked.
- The Library has launched a new blog newsletter and the Committee on Library has been added to the mailing list.
- The library space planning report has been distributed to the deans and there has been some discussion on how to proceed.
- Committee Position Openings: R & PD and Committee on Committees, Rules and Jurisdiction (CCRJ)
Lisa Mix agreed to serve on the R & PD Committee; Josephine Tan will serve on the CCRJ.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, March 15, 2005
Present: Lisa Mix (Chair), David Owen (Secretary), Keir Reavie, Anneliese Taylor, Min-Lin Fang, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford
Absent: Janice Contini- Announcements
None
- President T. Huwe's call to discuss "Strategic Directions" document (Lisa)
MF reminded the group that LAUC-SF members have already had a meeting with Karen (UL) in which this was discussed. The consensus following a general discussion was that LAUC-SF members are already involved in initiatives recommended in the document, such as Scholarly Communication and Shared Collections. KR however expressed a concern over the failure of the document to address how these initiatives should be carried out and what staffing issues this will involve.
- Report on Committee on the Library meeting (Lisa)
Larry Pitts initiated a discussion on Scholarly Communication issues. Karen (UL) presented a report on library activities, including the stem cell Webliography on GALEN, new Scholarly Communication initiatives, and space utilization. KR gave an update on the library's privacy procedures.
- Question from Committee on Professional Governance (Min-Lin)
The committee is collecting information on the relationships between LAUC and library administration to encourage wider presence of LAUC on UC campuses. At UCSF the only formal representation by LAUC is on the Senate Academic Library Committee. PW reminded members that there used to be a member of faculty on CAPA.
- Update on Research and Professional Development Committee (Anneliese)
The committee has received 3 new proposals plus 1 requesting additional funding. The Webpage will be updated for trailing the progress of funded projects. Due to the small number of proposals submitted, LAUC-SF members encouraged the committee to revisit the guidelines and recommended focus.
The group decided that, as per previous discussions, part of the LAUC-SF Professional Development funds should be used to bring in a speaker on a relevant topic. AT will contact a representative from Google Scholarship. Other suggested speakers include Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archives (DO) and Susan K. Nutter, University Librarian and Provost, NCSU, Raleigh (PW).
- New Business
CAPA (PT) reported that Bette Anton from UCB has agreed to be the external reviewer for this year.
David Owen
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, November 15, 2004
Present: Lisa Mix (Chair), David Owen (Secretary), Janice Contini, Min-Lin Fang, Keir Reavie, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Peggy Tahir (vacation), Paul Wakeford (HOTS meeting)- LAUC Research Grant Proposal Call (AT)
AT announced the call for Research Proposals for the University-wide Research Grants for Librarians program for 2004/2005. Proposals should be submitted first to the UCSF divisional chair (ie. AT) by Jan 3. Funds are made available on July 1, 2005
- LAUC 2004 Fall Assembly (LM/AT)
LAUC fall assembly was held the weekend of November 4, at UC Berkeley. LM reported that this year there was a welcomed change in emphasis away from LAUC business to the themes of the program: "SOPAG: Recent Work and New Directions" "Faculty Perspectives on Professional Library Services In An Era of System Wide Planning" Two contributors highlighted different perspectives of biomedical researchers vs. humanities: Dr. Martin London (Anesthesia, UCSF), San Francisco Library Committee & Elaine Tennant (German/Scandinavian Studies, UCB), Senate Library Committee
More information at: http://library.berkeley.edu/LAUC/fallassembly04/agenda.html.
The webcast is at http://library.berkeley.edu/LAUC/fallassembly04/webcast.html
Other items: recognition of Myron Okada, (Director, University of California, Office of Academic Personnel) for his work with LAUC over the years. Given lifetime LAUC Membership
- Academic Senate Library Committee (ASLC) (LM)
Main topic of discussion was library space. Gail Persily gave presentation on library space issues at Mission Bay: results from a survey at MB concluded that students regard
library space a valuable place to work. Committee concerned that UCSF Library not give up space to outside groups.
- LAUC monies for professional development
$1500 for prof dev funds. Not used in previos years despite talk of inviting speakers.
We must use it or it may be taken away in the future. AT/ML: suggestion to use funds to educate UCSF lauc members on research methods, preparation of grant proposals, professional writing. ML to gather information on this issue.
- New business
-LM proposed that UCSF LAUC invite the LAUC president, Terry Huwe to one of our division meeting
- ML proposed submitting a resolution at Spring LAUC Assembly to honor the contributions of Jackie Wilson.
David J Owen
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, October 18, 2004
Present: Janice Contini, Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix (Chair), Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: David Owen (leave of absence), Paul Wakeford- Response to Karen Butter's Questions to LAUC-SF
- Staff award programs. The group agreed that programs made possible through the Staff Performance Awards (SPA) Program should remain open to eligible staff only, and that non-eligible staff would only be able to participate if space is available after staff signs up. LAUC-SF will not contribute funds toward this program.
- Annual planning process for Librarians. Several questions were raised about what the process would entail. The group suggested that a meeting with Karen would be the best way to answer these questions before a response is given.
- Library Marketing Workshop Update (Fang)
- LAUC Executive Board Conference Call
Lisa will participate in a conference call on October 19 with members of the state-wide executive board. The board will plan the Spring Assembly date and will discuss issues such as the LAUC President's visit to CDL, the Fall Assembly, discussions at the divisional level, and a white paper on librarians and instructional status. Respectfully Submitted,
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Vice Chair
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, July 20, 2004
Present: Janice Contini, Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie (Chair), Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Nadya Disend, Min-Lin Fang (sick leave), David Owen (leave of absence), Peggy Tahir (out sick), Paul Wakeford (vacation)- Announcemnts
Clair announced that she will be leaving UCSF at the end of September. She will be moving to Denver. Lisa introduced Janice Contini, who began working as a special projects assistant to Gail Persily on July 12. Janice comes to UCSF from the UCLA Biomedical Library, and will be here for one year. - 2) LAUC Teleconference (Keir)
Keir summarized the recent Executive Board teleconference call- System-wide Elections: Jennifer Reiswig (SD) was elected Vice President/President-Elect and Donald Barclay (Merced), Secretary
- UCOP provided numbers of librarians in each step by campus to the Executive Board. One member wanted names associated with librarians at each step, but all other members were opposed to this. These statistics will be used to support arguments in favor of retention of librarians in face of budget cuts. Still unknown is how many LAUC members are distinguished. Each campus will provide information on number of distinguished members to the Executive Board.
- Several LAUC members have applied as representatives to system-wide groups - 5 for CDC; 2 for HOPS; and 4 for SOPAG. LAUC has to put forward three names for each group to CDL, so each campus should put forth its selections. A ballot will be distributed and is due by August 30. Keir will re-send the e-mail with the applicants' statements; please respond to Keir with your vote for the candidates you'd like to see in each group.
- LAUC is still looking for a webmaster and needs someone by August.
- LAUC-SF needs volunteers for these system-wide committees: Rules & Jurisdiction, Library Plans & Policies, and Professional Governance. We need to check whether David can serve on the Diversity Committee for another year. Anneliese is on the Research & Professional Development Committee for one more year.
- The Fall Assembly is November 4 in Berkeley. Provost Greenwood, formerly of UCSC, will be a guest speaker
- LAUC Executive Board Transition Meeting - August 20, UCOP
- System-wide Elections: Jennifer Reiswig (SD) was elected Vice President/President-Elect and Donald Barclay (Merced), Secretary
- Library Committee Meeting (Keir)
The Academic Senate Library Committee Meeting took place 2 weeks ago.- The UL's report consisted of a discussion about additional space needed for educational purposes within the university. The library, like all buildings on campus, is being looked at for use of space.
- Budget report: The library has been asked to prepare for a 3.5% cut, although the actual cut will hopefully be less. We won't know the details until the State budget is finalized.
- Senior Management - The library held a Strategic Planning meeting with facilitators last Friday
- New online resource: Index Catalogue (Surgeon General) was announced
- Privacy Policy issues have been put aside until the September meeting. Management group has to finalize a couple of thins first.
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
- The UL's report consisted of a discussion about additional space needed for educational purposes within the university. The library, like all buildings on campus, is being looked at for use of space.
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, June 15, 2004
Present: Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Min-Lin Fang, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- Local LAUC Elections
Anneliese was nominated as Chair-Elect; David as Secretary. Lisa moved to approve the nominations, and all present approved. Lisa will be the new Chair. The terms begin on September 1. - Diversity Committee (David)
David reported on the systemwide Diversity Committee meeting, which Sylvia Curtis (UCSB) chairs. The UCLA Library has a special committe on diversity, and UCSB sponsors events to try to sensitive the community to minority populations. The LAUC committee's website at http://library.ucsc.edu/laucdiversity/ indexes reports from the committee and links to the campuses' diversity activities and Principles of Community. There is also a link here to Resources on Diversity, a LAUC-sponsored, searchable database of relevant bibliographic guides and units within UC. The group decided against opening up their listserv to non-members, ensuring that it will be used for committee business only. - R&PD Committee - Research Grants (Anneliese)
All research grant awardees have been contacted. David's grant proposal (revision) was approved and awarded fully. - Report on LAUC Assembly (Keir, Lisa)
- Lisa: There has been much discussion within the LAUC Executive Board about the advancement of librarians within steps. There is some concern that not enough librarians have reached the distinction level. Some board members suggested polling all LAUC members to determine who has reached distinction, or at least to get a number count without identifying individual librarians.
All UCSF members present agreed that providing the data without names is acceptable.
- The Board also discussed creating a Recognition Award to honor LAUC members for significant contributions or achievements, however no consensus was reached about whom should be awarded. The conclusion was that such an award should be decided on at the local level only.
- LAUC representatives are needed for the following CDL advisory committees: CDC, HOPS, and SOPAG. Anyone who is interested should let Keir know; as Division Chair he will suggest interested parties to LAUC, which in turn makes recommendations to the ULs.
- Keir: There was more discussion about position papers. The guidelines will be revised. The LAUC Executive Board will also draft a "statement of concern" about the retention of librarians with regards to budget cuts.
- Lisa: There has been much discussion within the LAUC Executive Board about the advancement of librarians within steps. There is some concern that not enough librarians have reached the distinction level. Some board members suggested polling all LAUC members to determine who has reached distinction, or at least to get a number count without identifying individual librarians.
- Other Business
- Keir: This year's Fall Assembly will be in Berkeley.
- Anneliese: LAUC is urging CDL to do a Tier 1 license for Library Literature online. UCSF agreed to participate if our cost comes out lower than or the same as what we pay for the print index.
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
- Keir: This year's Fall Assembly will be in Berkeley.
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, April 20, 2004
Present: Clair Kuykendall, Chris McConnell, Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie (Chair), Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Min-Lin Fang, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- Report on Committee on Library Plans and Policies (Lisa)
The statewide Committee held a conference call intended to discuss collection development issues, which turned into a discussion about reference issues. Most other UC libraries have a combined information/reference service desk but are looking into setting up a triage system similar to UCSF'. Reference traffic is increasing both in person and via e-mail, although the questions have become more complex. Librarians need to do more outreach for reference services and to receive more training on how to provide help with complicated questions. - Library Literature Subscription (Keir)
The LAUC Executive Board wants the campuses to pursue a Tier 1 electronic license for Library Literature. The Reference Bibliographers group has also gauged interest from the campuses in participating in a Tier 1. There was no strong support for participating amongst the LAUC-SF group, considering that much of the library literature relevant to us here is indexed in ERIC and PubMed. The Library subscribes to the print index at about $400 annually. MEF replied to the bibliographers group on behalf of UCSF, stating that we would only be interested if our share worked out to be the same as or less than what we pay currently. Library Literature is also available via Dialog, and anyone needing to do an online search could do so at the per minute charge. - Elections (Lisa)
Anneliese will be receiving materials for LAUC Statewide elections shortly and will distribute paper ballots to all LAUC-SF members. Ballots for statewide officers are due locally by June 10, and the election results will be announced by June 30. Elections for LAUC-SF offices will be held at the June LAUC-SF meeting. Keir and Clair are on the Nominating Committee. - LAUC Research Grants update (Anneliese)
The statewide Research & Professional Development Committee had a conference call on April 16 to vote on funding recommendations for the six grant proposals. All six applicants had sent in revised applications. The Committee voted to fund all but one proposal and recommended reduced funding on a few proposals in order to stay within the balance avaialable. UCOP will review the recommendations and will notify applicants of funding decisions by June 1. - LAUC funds for presenting posters at conferences (Keir)
Keir wanted to use LAUC funds to cover the expense of printing a poster to be presented at an AAMC professional conference. Library travel funds do not cover this type of expense. The group agreed that per the LAUC-SF Research & Travel Policy, this type of expense should be covered by an individual's LAUC R&PD funds since it is incurred as part of professional activity. The Travel Policy may be updated to include specific wording about relevant materials expenses. - LAUC Awards Survey (Keir)
Keir forwarded a copy of a draft award survey to go before the Executive Board at the Spring Assembly. - Spring Assembly (Keir & Lisa)
The Spring Assembly is on Thursday, May 13 at UC Riverside. Keir and Lisa will be attending as the LAUC-SF delegation. Click here to view the agenda and get more information. This year's program is "ONE UNIVERSITY, ONE LIBRARY: A Budgetary Perspective From the Outside In." The program is at 1:15 pm PST and will be Webcast. Click here for more information. Any issues that need to be addressed at the Assembly should be brought to Keir and/or Lisa's attention before May 13 . - Other Business
The MLA Continuing Education Clearinghouse could be useful for identifying guest speakers to be brought to UCSF on LAUC R&PD funds.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, March 18, 2004
Present: Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kuykendall, Chris McConnell, Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie (Chair), Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: David Owen (vacation leave), Paul Wakeford- Announcements
No LAUC related announcements. - Academic Senate Library Committee Meeting (Keir)
There are new members on the Library Committee, so several major topics that have preoccupied the committee during the last year were reviewed for their benefit. Other topics included:- Elsevier negotiations and scholarly publishing in general
- Status of the budget. Nobody knows any specifics at this point.
- Karen talked about last year's cuts and how the library saved money by canceling print journal subscriptions. Faculty wanted to know what we would cut if there are further budget shortfalls this year. This has not yet been determined.
- Faculty are also interested in the library space at Mission Bay. The library will occupy a new space by June 2005. Karen is planning for this library. Future library space at Mission Bay will depend on how the site grows, as well as whether a hospital will be built on the campus.
- New electronic resources acquired in the last year were announced, and included STAT!Ref, Natural Standard, and NewsBank. The faculty were also informed of changes to the title list in the ScienceDirect package.
- LAUC Executive Board Meeting (Keir)
- The Spring Assembly is in the planning stage. The meeting will take place in Riverside on May 13, and will include three speakers.
- There is an updated list of UC library-related acronyms
- The Position Paper Review Task Force has been given a new charge
- LAUC requested of the University Librarians that a LAUC member be part of the Information Literacy Task Force
- The Board discussed the Professional Governance Report
- Outside CAPA reviewer (Peggy)
Three LAUC-Berkeley members, Ann Jensen, Gary Peete, and Jim Spohrer, offered to serve as an outside reviewer for UCSF's CAPA reviews this year. The group selected Gary Peete. Paul, as CAPA chair, has been in touch with Gary already. Two of this year's CAPA members are also up for review. CAPA has decided that it is allowable to use only three reviewers, including Gary, for those reviews.Lisa emphasized the importance of informing Gary of UCSF's professional criteria, since Berkeley's criteria differ in many ways. Peggy will ensure that Gary is updated on UCSF's criteria.
- Other Business (Anneliese)
Anneliese attended a meeting with the statewide representatives of the Research & Professional Development Committee in Oakland on February 27. The Committee reviewed all six research grant proposals and came up with questions and comments for the applicants to clarify specific parts of their proposals. The Committee Chair, Terry Huwe, then contacted each applicant with the group's questions. The applicants have until March 29 to respond with a revised proposal addressing the questions.The total sum of funding requested was more than available grant funds. The Committee did not eliminate any proposals and will review the revised proposals after March 29 to recommend which proposals should be funded and at what level.
Anneliese reminded the group of the possible speaker/workshop topics brought up at the February meeting. Additional topics were suggested:
- What is research? (Clair)
- How to write grant proposals for librarians (MEF). Peggy has written several proposals in her career and could lead or contribute to such a session. A few members also suggested Gail Persily as a speaker, since she has written a couple sizeable, multi-year grants.
Those who made suggestions should also look into the feasability of inviting speakers or setting up workshops. Available funds for R&PD activities are $1500.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, February 17, 2004
Present: Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kuykendall, Chris McConnell, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford (absent leave)- Announcements
No LAUC related announcements. - Outside CAPA reviewer
Keir: Peggy spoke with Julia concerning an outside reviewer for this year's CAPA reviews, but no record could be found of a designated reviewer. After the meeting, Keir contacted the LAUC chairs at UCB, UCD, and UCSC to inquire about potential outside reviewers from those campuses. The chairs questioned how quickly we needed someone to help with the reviews.Min-Lin: according to our timeline, once the completed review package has been turned in to Nanette, Nanette forwards this package to CAPA in late January. CAPA members review the package and send their recommendations (addressed to Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs) to the UL at the end of February.
Last year the reviewees turned in their packages later than specified in the timeline, so the meeting with the outside reviewer, Ann Jensen from UCB, did not take place until April 25, and the recommendation letters (addressed to Dr. D. Bainton) to Karen went out on May 7. MEF recommended sending a copy of the 2003-04 review timeline to the chairs.
- Privacy Task Group Report - UCSF
Keir chairs and Lisa is in this Group. Keir sent the draft report to the management group and has sent a modified report to Karen with the group's suggestions. The report includes an audit of patron information kept in various units.There was a question about whether we need to keep record of direct consultations with students, GALEN answered interactions, and entries in the consultation database. The Task Force has concluded that records can be kept, but patron information needs to be extracted so that only non-personal information is kept.
Lisa made the case that in some instances it is useful to retain information about patrons, such as names and which resources were consulted, in order to help returning patrons. As long as patrons are notified that their contact information may be retained for a given amount of time, this may be permissable.
The Group will pass on recommendations of best practices.
- Other business
Anneliese will be attending a meeting at UCOP on Friday, February 27 with the LAUC Research & Professional Development Committee. The Committee will be reviewing the six research grant proposals submitted this year, including one by David Owen, and making funding recommendations to UCOP.Other R&PD activities - the group brainstormed ideas for guest speakers as a means to apply some of LAUC-SF's professional development funds. Some suggested topics are:
- Research methodology and professional writing (Chris suggested; Anneliese will investigate)
- Oral history or history of UC (Lisa)
- Grokker search engine or other useful resource workshop typically offered by BayNet (Clair)
- The future of librarianship - is a library Masters degree necessary? What is a librarian? (Chris)
These are all interesting topics that should be investigated further.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, January 22, 2004
Present: Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kuykendall, Chris McConnell, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Paul Wakeford (absent leave)- Announcements
Lisa attended the latest Academic Senate Library Committee meeting in Keir's absence. Laurie from Campus Planning attended the meeting as a guest to discuss space usage on campus. The schools are looking for spaces to accommodate small group sessions, due to changes made to the curriculum. Room 101 in Kalmanovitz is under consideration. Karen and the Academic Committee are concerned that use of the room by the Library would then be restricted, and maintenance would be an issue. Karen will draft a memo to Campus Planning articulating the Committee’s concerns.Faculty feel that the reservation schedule for faculty carrels does not meet their needs; they would like to be able to reserve a carrel at regular intervals as opposed to just for one day or week at a time. Chris will be revisiting the policy and publicity of reserving faculty carrels.
- Peer Review Procedures
- Min-Lin brought up the discussion on peer review procedures and the four questions posed by the Professional Governance Committee. MLF sent the following response for UCSF to PGC's questions:
Review campus procedures and answer the following questions:
A. Are there separate review procedures for represented and non-represented librarians? If so, how do the procedures differ? SF doesn't have separate procedures for represented or non-represented librarians. B. Do local campus procedures incorporate additional criteria language beyond the language in the APM for appointments and advancement? Do local campus procedures make reference to or incorporate any LAUC position papers? If so, please list and characterize each instance. SF peer review procedures don't make references to any LAUC position papers since much of the language was incorporated into the relevant APM sections. C1. What is the role of the University Librarian in the review process at each campus? The role of the UL at SF campus in the UCSF Guide for Peer Review reads:
a. Annually, the UC/designee shall send to the Chair of CAPA (Committee to Advise on Personnel Actions) a complete and accurate list of librarians and their status.
b. Annually, the UC/designee shall inform in writing, all review initiators and all librarians of their status, responsibilities and rights. A copy of the calendar will also be provided.
c. The UL will receive the review files from the review initiators and forward the files to CAPA.
d. The UL will respond to requests from CAPA for additional documentation by notifying the review initiator(s) and reviewee(s); such documentation is forwarded to CAPA.
e. Following CAPA's deliberations, the UL receives review files from CAPA with their recommendation. After adding his/her recommendation, the review files are forwarded to the chancellor/designee. C2. Who is the final decision maker? At which points does the final decision maker have the opportunity to comment on the candidate under review? At UCSF, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Dr. D Bainton) is the one who makes the final decision. At very end of the review process, Dr. Bainton has the opportunity to comment on the candidate under review. Dr. Bainton receives review files from the UL. If her decision is contrary to that of the UL, the UL is requested to provide further information or commentary. If her decision is contrary to that of CAPA, CAPA is asked to provide further information or commentary. She makes the final decision based on the recommendation from the UL and CAPA. Finally, Dr. Bainton notifies the reviewee of the final decision. D. Following the completion of the review cycle, does the peer review committee on each campus report to the divisional membership and/or executive board? If so, what types of data and information do such reports contain? LAUC-SF has a very small group of librarians. We only have few candidates under review every year. After the completion of the review, the review committee CAPA neither reports to the divisional membership nor to executive board.
- Min-Lin brought up the discussion on peer review procedures and the four questions posed by the Professional Governance Committee. MLF sent the following response for UCSF to PGC's questions:
Review campus procedures and answer the following questions:
- Take our Daughters & Sons to Work
Chris reported that the Library will be participating with a group of 9-10 year old girls, with several library staff participating. The event takes place April 22 - Outside CAPA reviewer
Peggy will contact a reviewer from Berkeley.
Respectfully Submitted,
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, December 16, 2003Present: Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Chris McConnell, Paul Wakeford- Announcements
To welcome our newest member, Chris McConnell, LAUC members have invited Chris to lunch on Friday, January 23. - Fall Assembly Report
- PATRIOT Act and Privacy Issues Task Force - Executive Board. (Keir).
UCOP has decided that it will not take any actions concerning the PATRIOT Act (PA). University lobbyists are only active when a bill is before Congress. The Board discussed the effectiveness of LAUC-organized events related to the Act. Most campuses agreed that it is not necessary to invite a PA specialist from ALA to speak. Each campus is developing its own policies and procedures for handling PA requests, and therefore campus-specific training is more essential. On March 8, 2004 Keir will present UCSF’s PA policies and procedures to the Academic Senate Library Committee. The Privacy Audit Task Force has made significant progress with its report on retaining patron information. Their report will be presented to management early in the new year. - LAUC Bylaws. (Keir) - The majority of systemwide bylaws changes were approved with minor changes. The change to the allocation of delegates was rejected as it had the potential to leave San Francisco and Merced with no delegate the way it was written. The number of delegates depends on the number of LAUC members at each campus. The Committee will meet again to revise, and a revision will either be included with the election ballot or on a special ballot.
- Information Literacy Task Force. (Keir) - The final report was presented to SOPAG. The group will disband now that the report is completed, and HOPS will take over information literacy issues.
- Position Paper 1. (Lisa) - There was a motion to archive this paper with no further changes. The motion to archive the paper rather than retire it implies that it is still valid. By definition, position papers should not be revised; a new paper should be written if the position of the organization changes.
- Research & Professional Development Committee. (Keir) - Terry Huwe talked about what type of research the LAUC research grants can fund. The grants may be revised to support other projects such as evaluation of services. The committee will discuss.
- UC Budget. (Lisa) - Myron Okada, UC Director of Academic Personnel, reported that the budget for 2004-05 has not yet been presented. We know that funding for K-12 outreach will be cut and VERIP (early retirement) will not be offered.
- LAUC Officers, Budget. (Keir) - Linda Kennedy (Davis) is the current LAUC President. Terry Huwe (Berkeley) will serve as next President. The Spring Assembly is May 13 in Riverside. The Executive Board will meet after the Assembly. The LAUC budget is flat this year.
- PATRIOT Act and Privacy Issues Task Force - Executive Board. (Keir).
- Old Business
Lisa and Anneliese will meet in January to go over adding the minutes to the Web site. Lisa updated the UCSF roster on the site. Paul, Peggy, and Clair are this year’s CAPA members. Paul, Lisa, and Clair are being reviewed, so the alternates will have to serve. We need to invite an outside reviewer to serve on CAPA, namely Anne (Berkeley). As CAPA Chair, Paul will ask an outside reviewer. - New Business
We may need to invite Karen to a LAUC meeting to discuss the approval of release time for research grants awarded.
Anneliese Taylor
UCSF LAUC Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, November 18, 2003Present: Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Clair Kuykendall, Min-Lin Fang, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- Lisa sent LAUC members via email the draft report of the LAUC Committee on Plans and Policies. Lisa is the SF representative on the committee, and has been asked to solicit comments from our division. Please send any comments about the report to Lisa as soon as possible. The Committee will be reporting at the Fall Assembly.
- Position Paper 1 concerns criteria for advancement and was sent as a link with Keir’s email of this week. The topic of criteria came up at last year’s Assembly and will be voted on by Keir and Lisa as UCSF delegates at this Fall Assembly. To see the position paper and related documents, go to http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/pptf/. Comments should go to either Keir or Lisa.
- Keir reported on the Academic Senate Library Committee meeting of last week, which was not well attended. Discussions included:
- Representatives from both graduate students and the UC Students Association may attend the Academic Senate meetings but may not vote
- The response to the Academic Senate letter to faculty regarding scientific publishing issues has been mostly positive
- Public Services is doing a usage study of library space. Of note is usage of faculty carrels and study rooms. PS will be re-examining its policies regarding these spaces.
- A committee wrote a report about building security, and is considering whether we should restrict access to designated users during certain times. Karen will talk to the Vice Chancellor concerning the report.
- This Committee asked the library if it would perform a survey of satisfaction with library services.
- Julia updated the Committee on print journal cancellations and Elsevier negotiations.
- The call is still out for LAUC Research Grant Proposals. Any UCSF LAUC member who wishes to submit a grant proposal should get their materials to Anneliese Taylor, SF representative on the Research & Professional Development Committee, by January 5, 2004. See http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/rpd/rescall03-04.html for a complete calendar and application and other information.
- The SF LAUC web site in the process of being revised. A group consisting of Lisa, Julia, Peggy, and Min Lin worked on revisions to the site. This proved to be a more significant job than expected. Lisa will assess what the group has done thus far, make the changes to the website, and determine what further revisions need to be made at this time. Keir suggested that we pare down the website, removing documents that are available elsewhere, and linking to them instead. Typically the Secretary takes on the responsibility for the website. Since the website revisions are in process, Lisa will continue with the major revisions (described above). Lisa will meet with Anneliese (new Secretary) to go over the procedures for updating the site.
Anneliese Taylor
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, October 14, 2003Present: Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (Chair), Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Clair Kuykendall, Paul Wakeford- New Secretary Elected
Min-Lin Fang resigned as the secretary and Anneliese Taylor was elected as the new secretary, effective on Oct 14, 2003. - FY 2003-2004 LAUC-SF Development Budget
Keir Reavie, LAUC-SF chair, reported the amount in FY 2003-2004 for LAUC-SF professional development. $500 from the Professional Development funds will be reserved for research grants that SF division members could apply for research purpose. $1,000 will be set aside for discretionary funds. The remaining funds will be divided among the nine members. - Call for the LAUC Statewide Research Grants Application
Anneliese Taylor, Statewide Research and Professional Development Committee member, reminded members that the deadline for the LAUC statewise Research Grants application is January 5, 2004. She also reported that Terry Huwe will send out the final call for grant proposals in November. - LAUC Fall Assembly
Keir announced that LAUC Fall Assembly will be held on December 5 at UC Berkeley. This year there is no program at the Assembly. It's going to be a full-day business meeting. - Academic Senate Library Committee Meeting
Keir attended the Sep meeting on behalf of LAUC-SF. He reported that the following topics were covered:- Annaliese Taylor gave a report on journal cancellation
- Beverlee French talked about journal licensing issues, specifically Elsevier. Problems and issues on scholarly publication
- CAPA members
Paul Wakeford (Chair), Peggy Tahir, and Clair Kuykendall now comprise CAPA.
Min-Lin Fang
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting for September 2003 was cancelledLAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, August 18, 2003Present: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Anneliese Taylor
Absent: Nadya Disend, Paul Wakeford- New member - Anneliese Taylor
We welcomed the newest member of LAUC-SF, Anneliese Taylor, Manager of Collections Development. - Appointments to statewide LAUC committees
LAUC-SF members were appointed to the following committees:- Information Literacy - Clair Kuykendall
- Diversity - David Owen
- Research and Professional Development - Anneliese Taylor
- Workshops on research proposals for LAUC funding
LAUC's Research and Professional Development Committee received only three proposals this year (all were funded). Because of this, there is a perceived need for guidance on writing proposals. LAUC will be holding a series of workshops on writing and submitting proposals. There will probably be a workshop held at UCB sometime in October, and LAUC-SF members will be invited. The deadline for submitting research proposals is January 5, 2004 - Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdictions -- Peggy
The Committee discussed changing the bylaws on elections. The Nominating Committee would like to reduce the restrictions on who can run for statewide offices. - Other Business and Projects
- Group working on Peer Review Guidelines - Lisa, David, Min-Lin.
Still waiting for someone from Admin to work with the group - Group working on Bylaws - Peggy, Paul, Julia
- Website - new deadline is September 30
- Group working on Peer Review Guidelines - Lisa, David, Min-Lin.
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, July 15, 2003Present: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, David Owen, Keir Reavie (chair), Peggy Tahir
Absent: Nadya Disend, Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, Paul Wakeford- Academic Senate Library Committee(Keir)
- Chair's Report
M. London thanked G. Persily and J. Kochi for presenting at the Anesthesia Grand Round. M. London is the UCSF representative to the system-wide Academic Senate University Committee on Libraries (UCOL). They have recently begun meeting again. UCOL endorsed LAUC's Information Literacy resolution. - UL's Report
Discussed journal cancellation project. There was a long discussion about if there should be guidelines on journals the Library should keep in print (e.g., core journals, journals edited by UCSF faculty, etc.). - CDL Update (Dan Greenstein)
Updated faculty on CDL initiatives including:
· Layered service model
· Shared collections and preservation
· eScholarship (CDL has recently implemented tools that allow peer review and is beginning to investigate the new requirement that data from NIH sponsored research be freely available.)
· Elsevier negotiation update
- Chair's Report
- Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdictions (Peggy)
Tahir is attending the COCRJ meeting this Friday. They will be discussing the suggested bylaws changes, edit them for final text, and decide if there are any others they want to suggest. They will also be developing background information for any major revisions.Revisions include:
· Add Past-President as an official LAUC Officer;
· Rewrite rules that govern who can be a LAUC candidate;
· Allow approval of minutes by email.
Once the LAUC bylaws have been officially changed, Tahir will review LAUC-SF bylaws to ensure they're consistent with LAUC bylaws.
- Revisions to Position Paper 1
The link Reavie sent in the agenda was to the wrong document. Reavie will resend URL. Members should read position paper, and LAUC will discuss at the August meeting.
Respectfully Submitted,
Julia Kochi
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, June 17, 2003In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (chair), Peggy Tahir- LAUC-SF elections
The Nominating Committee (consisting of Peggy and David) proposed the following slate of candidates: Chair-Elect: Lisa Mix; Secretary: Min-Lin Fang. Peggy made a motion to accept the candidates. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. LAUC-SF officers for 2003-2004 are:
Chair - Keir Reavie; Chair-elect - Lisa Mix; Secretary - Min-Lin Fang. - Report on Academic Senate Library Committee Meeting (Keir)
The following topics were covered:- Mission Bay update and announcement of open house
- Possibility of reducing Library hours
- Privacy issues
- Report on LAUC Spring Assembly, UCSD May 30 (Keir and Peggy)
Highlights included:- Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act was passed.
- Position Paper 1 was accepted with recent changes. Then it was sent back to the Task Force for further revision. The Assembly decided that a separate position paper will be developed to deal with the issue of the Distinguished Step.
- LAUC's Research and Professional Development Committee only received three proposals this year, and so all three were funded.
- Old Business
- Work on the website continues.
- Keir will ask Karen to designate someone from administration to work with the group that is revising peer review guidelines.
- New Business
- Julia urged us all to look at the new white papers on UC shared collections
- Keir needs to check with Vickye about LAUC travel/development funds for FY 2003-04. Lisa reminded members to vote in the statewide LAUC elections by June 30.
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, May 20, 2003In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie (chair), Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford- LAUC Elections
- Local -- David and Peggy are the Nominating Committee for LAUC-SF elections. They will submit a slate of candidates, and we will vote at the June LAUC meeting (Tuesday June 17). Since a quorum is necessary for a valid election, all LAUC-SF members are urged to attend the meeting and vote. Keir will ask Clair to vote by proxy.
- Statewide - Election Day for Statewide LAUC offices is June 30. This means that all votes must be submitted by then. On May 31, the statewide LAUC secretary will send ballots to divisional secretaries (i.e., Lisa for LAUC-SF). Lisa will distribute the ballots to LAUC-SF members.
- LAUC-SF opinion of seeking faculty status for Librarians
Min-Lin, as our representative on LAUC's Committee on Professional Governance, reported that the UC campuses are split on this issue. After some discussion, we decided that LAUC-SF's position is that LAUC should not pursue faculty status for Librarians. - Changes to LAUC Position Paper #1
We voted to accept the changes. - Report on May Academic Senate Library Committee
Discussion concerned upcoming budget cuts. The Committee passed the following resolution:
The Library Committee strongly supports the primary academic mission of the library which includes: building and maintaining core collections, supplying information services, and providing electronic access to digital resources. In the face of impending budget cuts and as an alternative to compromising this primary academic mission, the Library Committee supports a minor reduction of Library operating hours (based on use data and consultation with the faculty and students), and the equitable distribution of resources across academic units. Units that have historically received separate allocations from the library budget should be encouraged to find alternative sources of funding and/or reincorporate services back to the core library facility.
- Updating LAUC website
Lisa, Peggy, Min-Lin, and Julia are all working on various sections of the website. Peggy, Min-Lin and Julia will send their information to Lisa, who will make the actual changes to the site. - Review of Guidelines for Peer Review and Recruitment
Keir will check to find out if someone from Administration has been assigned to work with the LAUC task force (David, Lisa, Min-Lin)
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, April 15, 2003In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir.- LAUC-SF website - Peggy, Min-Lin, and Julia have volunteered to help with the website revision. Lisa will contact them with assignments shortly.
- Report on Academic Senate Library Committee meeting
Keir attended the most recent meeting on behalf of LAUC-SF. He reported that the following topics were covered:- New GALEN - has garnered praise from faculty
- Mission Bay opening
- Planned budget cuts
- Faculty of 1000 2-week trial
- A pilot project of digital dissertations
- Policy on use of library space
- LAUC Spring Assembly - May 30 at UCSD.
Keir will attend the Executive Board meeting. Peggy and Keir will attend the Assembly. There will also be 3 ULs attending. - LAUC elections - elections will take place in June, so we should start thinking about nominations for our local officers.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, March 18, 2003In attendance: Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir.- Executive Board meeting with Dr. Bainton -
Clair and Keir met with Dr. Bainton to update her on LAUC matters. The three agenda items were:
- Information literacy
- Privacy issues
- Review of CAPA procedures - Clair and Keir informed Dr. Bainton that LAUC-SF will be revising the guidelines. In the meantime, we will follow the interim guidelines proposed by Karen. They noted that the new guidelines will differ from the interim guidelines.
- CAPA procedures -
A group consisting of David, Min-Lin, and Lisa has been charged with reviewing the guidelines for peer review and recruitment. Clair will notify Karen that the group has been appointed, and invite her to appoint one or two people from Administration to work with the group.
Future CAPA groups will include a Librarian from another UC campus, who will serve for one year. Ann Jensen from UC Berkeley will be serving on the next UCSF CAPA.
- Response to potential library student (see Nanette's March 10 email to LAUC)
Julia will contact the student to get more information about her specific interests. - LAUC Spring Assembly in San Diego - Clair will be unable to attend. Keir will attend the Executive Board meeting; Keir and Peggy will attend the Assembly.
- LAUC presence at Academic Senate Library Committee meetings - During Clair's leave, Keir will attend the meetings, and designate an alternate on occasions when he is unable to attend.
- LAUC-SF Website - The Website is sorely out-of-date. Lisa, as Secretary/ Webmaster, will put together a group to review the entire site and assist with updates.
- News - Candidates for the Head of Public Services and the Manager of Collections Development will be coming to the Library for interviews in April.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, February 18, 2003In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), Lisa Mix, Keir Reavie.
- We continued the discussion of recruitment procedures and CAPA's role. Key issues are:
- LAUC-SF's response to Karen's interim guidelines for recruiting;
- Should LAUC representatives meet with D. Bainton, and what should be the nature of that meeting?
- Responding to Karen:
- It is in everyone's best interest to fill the vacant librarian positions ASAP. In that spirit, we will accept the interim guidelines, but make it very clear that we are accepting them only for the interim, and that revised guidelines are coming.
- We question the necessity of a CAPA letter of recommendation for each candidate, rather than one letter recommending one candidate and commenting on the others. One suggestion is to change the wording in the guidelines so that CAPA would write a letter of evaluation for each candidate, commenting on the individual's qualifications for the position, and stating whether the individual was CAPA's first choice, second choice, etc.
- It is in everyone's best interest to fill the vacant librarian positions ASAP. In that spirit, we will accept the interim guidelines, but make it very clear that we are accepting them only for the interim, and that revised guidelines are coming.
- Meeting with D. Bainton:
- Clair and Keir (the chair and chair-elect) will set up a meeting with Dr. Bainton, to renew LAUC's contact with her. At this meeting they will update her on LAUC matters, and specifically inform her that we are revising the CAPA guidelines for recruitment and promotion.
- Clair should also inform Karen that LAUC chair is meeting w/ D. Bainton.
- There was also some discussion about getting Librarians from other UC campuses to serve on review committees for promotion, since the pool of Librarians at UCSF who are eligible to serve on review committees is so small.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, January 21, 2003In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford.
We discussed the role of CAPA in peer review and recruitment. There are concerns that procedures specified in UCSF Guide for Librarians' Peer Review Process are not being observed. CAPA's role in decision-making has been reduced, and UL-appointed search committees have assumed increased power.
Julia, Paul, and Min-Lin (UCSF's current CAPA) reviewed the guidelines and identified instances where current practice diverges from specified procedures. This was in preparation for a meeting with Karen Butter, scheduled for January 21.
After much discussion, we agreed that the CAPA group would propose the following to Karen:
- A group of LAUC-SF members will review the guidelines, and review procedures at other UC campuses. They will draft possible revisions to the UCSF Guide (as well as guidelines for search committees) by June 1, 2003 for review by AVC Bainton and UL Butter.
- In the meantime, we will request that the guidelines be followed as currently written.
The CAPA group will report the results of their meeting w/ Karen at the next LAUC meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
Secretary, LAUC-SF
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, December 17, 2002In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie.
1. Clair thanked everyone for their work on the LAUC Fall Assembly.
2. Assembly Report - Claire and Keir reported on discussions at the Fall Assembly.
Julia asked whether anyone planned to follow-up on the issue of COLA for Librarians. Clair agreed to follow-up on that.Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
Secretary, LAUC-SF
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, November 19, 2002In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (chair), David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir.
- Professional Development Funds
Clair heard back from Vickye. It was decided to set aside $1000 for emergency funds and $500 for the LAUC-SF research grant. Additionally, money was set aside for the 2 vacant positions. A temporary position is being recruited, but no money was set aside since the person who fills that position will not have been here 6 months before the end of the fiscal year. For FY2002/2003, each LAUC member is allotted $1,055.
Clair will email Vickye the names of LAUC members as well as the allotment for this year.
- Revisit Peer Review Guidelines
LAUC decided to revisit the peer review guidelines and examples developed several years ago. A Task Force consisting of Min-Lin, David, and Lisa will review the documents.
Min-Lin will send an email to Nanette reminding her that she and CAPA need to meet to discuss CAPA's role in the hiring of new librarians.
- LAUC Farewell Gift for Jackie
It was decided to purchase a farewell gift for Jackie from LAUC. Members can contribute as much as they wish. Potential ideas: gift certificate to Chez Panisse or Home Depot.
David will email Glennda for suggestions. Clair will talk to Gail about the Home Depot idea.
- LAUC Assembly Update
The LAUC Assembly is December 6. The website is up. There are a number of outstanding tasks:
Registration: name tags, make blank receipts, schedule registration desk, copy reports, stuff packets, sign-up sheet for transportation back to airport, directional signs. Keir is organizing and will ask for help, if needed. Keir will ask Lisa if we can use the Rare Books Reading Room to handle registration the day of the Assembly. Julia will ask Gail if we can get UCSF Library pens and highlighters for giveaways.
Food: Order needs to be placed for breakfast and lunch. Lunch is being catered by Fountain Café. Julia will place orders next week.
Facilities: Peggy will ask permission from Admin to open doors for lunch if the day is nice and to inquire about set-up procedures to ensure the room is set-up properly.
Julia Kochi
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, October 15, 2002In attendance: Julia Kochi, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (chair), Jacqueline Wilson
- LAUC Roster/Committee Appointments - we recommended the following appointments to LAUC committees:
- Committee on Diversity - David Owen
- Committee on Rules and Jurisdictions - Peggy Tahir
- Committee on Professional Governance - Paul Wakeford
*Paul has respectfully declined this nomination, so we need to choose someone else to serve on this committee.
- Fall Assembly Update - David is ready to load the web pages but needs content from us. Lisa has made arrangements for LAUC members to get a discount at the Stanyan Park and prepared a list of alternate hotels. The Lange Room is reserved.
- LAUC travel and development money - still no word from Vickye. Claire needs to follow up with Vickye about this.
- Meeting with Karen - set for October 30, 9 a.m
Possible Agenda items- Peer review procedures -- Weight given to 4 criteria
- Her views on the distinguished step
- Clarification of policy for attending meetings
- Support for leaves/sabbaticals
- Birgitta Stevinger, Information and PR Librarian, Göteborg University Biomedical library, Sweden, will be visiting the library on Tuesday, October 29. All staff are invited to meet her at a reception at 9 a.m. that morning.
- Jackie reminded us that Blanche Wools, Director of the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State, will be giving a brown bag presentation on October 22, 1-2 p.m.
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, September 17, 2002In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall (Chair), Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir
- We discussed arrangements for the LAUC Fall Assembly, to be held at UCSF on December 6, 2002, with the Executive Board Meeting on December 5. Peggy has arranged for the Executive Board dinner at Manora's. Other duties, and those who agreed to do them, are as follows:
- Reserve Lange Room - Peggy
- Create Web page - David
- Hotels: look into getting the UCSF rate at the Stanyan Park, and prepare a list of alternative hotels - Lisa
- Transportation arrangements - Min-Lin
- Catering/Refreshments - Julia
- Invite Karen to give opening remarks - Clair
- Registration and Logistics: getting name tags, library pens, assigning table-staffing - Keir
- Karen has offered to meet with LAUC-SF to discuss issues of concern. Claire will respond to Karen and ask Marina to schedule a meeting. LAUC-SF should prepare an agenda for the meeting. Possible topics of discussion include peer review, criteria for the "Distinguished" step, retaining and recruiting librarians, support for attending meetings and sabbaticals. Contact Claire with agenda items.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Mix
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, July 16, 2002In attendance: Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Paul Wakeford, Jackie Wilson
- Lisa has been appointed to the LAUC system-wide Library Plans and Policies Committee.
- Paul is completing his term on the LAUC system-wide Bylaws Committee, Keir is completing his term on the Professional Governance Committee, and Peggy is completing her term on the Diversity Committee. LAUC-SF members will have to be appointed to these committees for September.
- The LAUC Fall Assembly will be held at UCSF on December 6, 2002. The Executive Board Meeting will be held on December 5. Clair, Lisa, Keir and Peggy will work on arrangements.
- Julia is organizing a lunch for new employees in the Library: Kirsten Neilsen and Jean Blackwell.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, June 18, 2002In attendance: Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Paul Wakeford
- Election of LAUC-SF Officers
Peggy Tahir made a motion to accept the candidates for Chair-elect (Keir Reavie) and Secretary (Lisa Mix). The motion was seconded by Paul Wakeford. The vote was taken by a show of hands, plus one vote by proxy. Both candidates were unanimously elected. LAUC-SF Officers for 2002-2003:
- Chair: Clair Kuykendall
- Chair-elect: Keir Reavie
- Secretary: Lisa Mix
- There was further discussion on holding a program at which people that went to
conferences would give a report on the conference, or repeat any presentations they
had given at a conference. Karen Butter is also planning a similar program in July.
Since Karen's program may fill our needs, Peggy will speak with her to voice LAUC's
support for the program.
- The statewide LAUC membership survey on the distinguished step has been completed.
Keir will e-mail the survey results to LAUC-SF members.
- Peggy gave a report on the LAUC Spring Assembly. Of note: LAUC passed a resolution
to propose an information literacy requirement for UC.
- The LAUC Fall Assembly will be held at UCSF on December 5 and 6, 2002. Clair, Lisa
and Keir will work on arrangements.
- There was discussion about LAUC travel funds.
We plan to survey other campuses, to see how they deal with travel per diem: do they get a full UC travel per diem ($50); and do they have to present receipts for the per diem? UCSF librarians must currently present all receipts in order to claim the per diem, and UCSF librarians receive $40 per day. If we have information on other UC library per diem policies, it may provide leverage for attaining a higher per diem here at UCSF, and changing the policy on presenting all receipts.
We also discussed the possibility of LAUC-SF members obtaining extra travel funds in the same fiscal year if there is unused LAUC travel money (i.e. unused by another LAUC member), rather than transferring the leftover money to the next fiscal year.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, February 12, 2002In attendance: : Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Lisa Mix, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Glennda Vandegrift, Celia White
- Members of LAUC-SF introduced themselves to Lisa Mix, the newest member of the group. Lisa then introduced herself to the group.
- Keir reported that there have been no changes to the LAUC-SF web site.
- There was discussion on whether management of the LAUC-SF web site should be part of the secretary's job. If this were the case, does this require a change in the bylaws? It was decided to discuss this issue in more detail at the next meeting.
- Peggy will ask about the possibility of holding an all-librarian assembly at the LAUC Executive Board Meeting on February 28, even though it is not on the agenda as she had requested.
- A farewell lunch for Celia has been scheduled for Monday, March 11, at Hotei.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, January 15, 2002In attendance: : Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Paul Wakeford, Celia White, Jackie Wilson
- Peggy will get the all librarian assembly added to the agenda for discussion at the next LAUC Executive Board meeting.
- LAUC-SF Web site.
Keir will be checking the copyright dates of the materials on the web site and updating them as needed.
Keir will be adding the LAUC-SF bylaws to the web site.
- There was a brief discussion about creating a web site to make librarian presentations and publication information to all library staff. It was decided that this was really something for GALEN II, not the LAUC-SF site. Celia and Julia will meet to discuss the creation of such a site.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, December 18, 2002In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall, Arel Lucas, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Celia White, Jackie Wilson
- Clair Kuykendall is the new Chair-elect for LAUC-SF.
- A number of changes need to be made to the LAUC-SF web site: 1) LAUC research and travel policy needs to be moved to the travel documents section; 2) the LAUC-SF bylaws need to be added to the site. Keir will make the changes.
There was also discussion about putting abstracts for presentations and publications by Library staff online. It was decided that this is something for GALEN II, not the LAUC web site. Celia will talk with Julia about doing this.
- Peggy will ask to have a discussion about an all UC librarian assembly added to the agenda of the next LAUC Board Meeting. The objective of this discussion is to gauge interest in having this assembly on one occasion, and if successful, perhaps once a year, instead of one of the normally scheduled LAUC assemblies.
- David will call a meeting of CAPA to review the peer review guidelines and discuss whether we need to have a policy for the use of outside reviewers. CAPA will draft new guidelines and present them at a future meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, November 20, 2001-
In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, Clair Kuykendall, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir (Chair), Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Celia White, Jackie Wilson
- David located a copy of the LAUC-SF Bylaws in an electronic format. Keir will convert the file to PDF and load it on the LAUC-SF web site. Min-Lin is also going to check whether we have an electronic copy of the LAUC-SF Professional Development Travel Policy for the web site.
- Management of the LAUC-SF web site has been transferred from Celia to Keir. Keir will inventory the content of the web site and compared it with the print LAUC-SF Binder, to see how they differ in the information they contain.
- Peggy reported on the LAUC Executive Board Meeting and Fall Assembly, held November 15 and 16, 2001, at UC Davis. Reports of the Executive Board are online. Celia will distribute a list of the reports' URLs to LAUC-SF members.
- Paul proposed that LAUC-SF make a suggestion to the LAUC Executive, that rather than have two LAUC Assemblies each year, one Assembly would be a librarian conference, which all librarians (LAUC or otherwise) could attend. Celia seconded this proposal and a motion was carried. Peggy will propose this to the LAUC Executive on behalf of the LAUC-SF membership.
- LAUC-SF will need to appoint a new Chair Elect, since Celia (the current Chair Elect) will be leaving in April, 2002.
- The group briefly discussed the use of librarians from other UC campuses for the peer review process at UCSF. This will be discussed in detail at a future meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, October 16, 2001-
In attendance: Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kuykendall, David Owen, Keir Reavie, Peggy Tahir, Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Jackie Wilson, Karen Butter (Guest), Nanette Grimm (Guest)
- Karen Butter answered questions about the annual librarian review process.
- There was discussion about having outside reviewers to review librarians at UCSF, either from UCB or other UC campuses. The UCSF LAUC members will discuss possible models for bringing in outside reviewers. The LAUC Chair (Peggy) will then discuss this with the LAUC Chairs at other campuses.
- 3. There was discussion on updating the UCSF LAUC Handbook and making it available online. LAUC is supposed to have administrative funds that we could use for this purpose. Peggy will check how to access these funds.
Respectfully submitted,
Keir Reavie
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, August 29, 2001-
In attendance: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Celia White, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford, Clair Kukyendall, Keir Reavie, Jackie Wilson.
- Nanette Grimm visited to gain a better understanding of LAUC, and to distribute the new MOU.
- At our next meeting, in September, offices change to the roster for 2001-2002, in which Peggy Tahir will be Chair, Celia White Vice Chair, Keir Reavie Secretary.
- Discussion of the possibility of LAUC SF meeting with Information Services position candidates.
- Discussion of Position Paper No. 1. It was agreed that the paper should not be revised at this time. Many issues potentially appropriate for LAUC-wide discussion were also raised.
- Professional Development money is in-possibility raised that LAUC-SF might invite a speaker with these funds. Further discussion to follow.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, May 15, 2001-
In attendance: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Celia White, Peggy Tahir, Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kukyendall, Keir Reavie, Jackie Wilson.
- Proposed: additions to website including travel information and a definition of the purpose of LAUC from the "History of LAUC" document.
- David Owen reported on Assembly: committees which need representatives, issues on other campuses (summer session); Julia Kochi reported on grant proposals reviewed by the Research & Professional Development Committee, and noted that the Committee planned to put examples of successful proposals and budgets on the website.
- It was reported that Cathy Palmer will serve on the search committee for the CDL Executive Director position.
- Discussion of the role of LAUC as perceived by University Librarians.
- Keir Reavie reported on the Position Paper on the Distinguished Librarian step. LAUC members will respond with comments by email and discussion will take place at the next meeting.
- Discussion of library travel policy regarding cash advances.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, April 17, 2001 -
In attendance: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Celia White, Peggy Tahir, Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kukyendall, Keir Reavie, Jackie Wilson.
- David reviewed the visit by Cathy Palmer, president of LAUC, and reported on Palmer's visit with Karen Butter. He noted that Karen expressed encouragement for LAUC to be more proactive in educating themselves and gaining new skills, as well as in mentoring new librarians; closer ties with library schools were suggested. Also discussed was the possible participation of other campuses in the UCSF peer review process. Glennda noted that this had been done successfully in the past and would be easier now with technology.
- David reported on the 3/13 meeting of the Academic Senate Library Committee; controversy regarding the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education slated to be built in the Library. The Committee has drafted a letter to Academic Senate Chair Larry Pitts on the issues of concern.
- LAUC Spring Assembly will take place next week in Irvine. Discussion of funding hotel stay for David, and possibly Peggy, pending budget update.
- Jackie suggested that once CAPA has complete librarian reviews for this year, that a meeting regarding promotions and hires be held with Gail Persily, Karen Butter and Nanette Grimm in attendance in order to air any concerns and facilitate communication and clarification of procedures.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, March 20, 2001 -
In attendance: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Celia White, Peggy Tahir, Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Min-Lin Fang, Clair Kukyendall.
This meeting was given over to Cathy Palmer, president of LAUC. The following issues were discussed:
- Library Building Plans
- Proposed Information Competency Requirement
- California Digital Library University Librarian search
- Evaluation of UL advisory structure
- Status and Progress of LAUC Committees
- Distinguished Librarian criteria, interpretations at various campuses, influence of campus culture
- UCSF LAUC issues
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC-SF Meeting Minutes, January 24, 2001 -
In attendance: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Celia White, Peggy Tahir, Keir Reavie, Glennda Vandegrift, Paul Wakeford, Min-Lin Fang.
- Cathy Palmer, president of LAUC, has planned a visit to the UCSF campus for March 20 (tentative date).
- LAUC Bylaw Amendment election results have been ratified. LAUC members received detailed results by email.
- Julia reported on the most recent Academic Senate Library Committee's meeting. Members of the committee expressed distress that they had been bypassed and not consulted in the process by which a new Tobacco Control Center for Research and Education had been allocated space on the 4th floor of the Library.
- Julia requested a volunteer to serve on the UCSF Research & Professional Development committee to review the LAUC grants proposal and also to attend the meeting as UCSF's representative since she was going to be out of town. Min-Lin volunteered.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC Minutes, November 21, 2000 Members Present: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Min-Lin Fang, Paul Wakeford, Celia White, Glennda Vandegrift, Clair Kuykendall
- David Owen and Peggy Tahir reported on the LAUC Fall Assembly. David will circulate "Position Paper No 1" regarding Librarian V issues, and the minor changes to language of the by-laws.
- LAUC membership shall ratify the changes to the by-laws by election procedure.
- Cathy Palmer, LAUC Chair, will visit Northern California campuses in February 2001.
- David also reported on the Academic Senate Library Committee Meeting, at which the issue of the new Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education taking up residence on the 4th floor of the Library was addressed. The Committee will seek alternatives to the present plan to be proposed to Dr. Bainton.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC Minutes, October 17, 2000 Members Present: Julia Kochi, David Owen, Min-Lin Fang, Jacqueline Wilson, Paul Wakeford, Celia White, Keir Reavie
- It was decided that David would arrange a meeting between LAUC-SF and Karen Butter to discuss peer review, and library-funded continuing education.
- It was reported that charges have gone out for Statewide Committees.
- Julia reported that the LAUC personal travel allotments are set, and that all reimbursement requests for LAUC business travel should now go through UCOP.
Respectfully submitted,
Celia White
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC Minutes, July 18, 2000 Members Present: Min-Lin Fang, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Celia White, Jackie Wilson
- We discussed the UL search and questions to ask in the upcoming formal interview (Brian Warling joined us for this portion of the meeting).
- LAUC will have one representative on the UL search committee for the UC Merced campus. Richard Lucier will chair the search committee.
- Statewide LAUC election results were announced.
- David reported on the LAUC Executive Board meeting of May 31, 2000. The board will be meeting over the summer to review LAUC committees, their charges and structure.
- Min-Lin reported on the LAUC Spring Assembly. She discussed a document that listed the criteria for Distinguished Librarian at each of the nine UC campuses.
Respectfully submitted,
Peggy Tahir
LAUC-SF Secretary
LAUC Minutes, March 21, 2000
Members Present: Robin Chandler, Min-Lin Fang, Julia Kochi, David Owen, Peggy Tahir, Paul Wakeford, Celia White, Jacqueline Wilson, Glennda Vandegrift
- Patsy Inouye, LAUC President, attended the meeting. She went to Los Angeles on March 13th and was able to meet with Mikki Goral and attend AFT negotiating sessions. She will continue to attend additional collective bargaining sessions. We discussed concerns relating to the Union’s proposal to the University.
- Paul Wakeford reported on the Committee for Library Plans and Policies. A representative from this committee will be advising SOPAG on guidelines for archiving digital information.
Respectfully submitted,
Peggy Tahir
LAUC Minutes February 22, 2000
Present: Min-Lin, Glennda, Paul, Celia, David, Jackie, and Daniel
- Celia reported a search function on the LAUC website was not supportable.
- Jackie moved to adopt LAUC’s Principles of Unity. The proposal passed.
- Jackie reported from the Cultural Diversity Committee.
- The committee is considering dropping the word cultural from its title to become the Diversity Committee. She also proposed LAUC take a closer look at affirmative action in the hiring process for librarians in the UC system.
- Paul reported from the Plans and Policies Committee.
- The committee is working on policy on issues to preserve material in digital formats.
- A subcommittee of UCSF Librarians (Wakeford, Wilson and Persily) has been created at the request of the UL search Committee to provide assistance in the UL search.
- Paul requested a LAUC representative be selected for library events. There were two discussions:
- Make the LAUC chair the automatic representative.
- Allow the executive board to appoint a representative. (This appears to be the best avenue; however, it will have to go through a proposal process to amend the bylaws (Article 8 section 3)).
Respectfully submitted,
Peggy Tahir
LAUC Minutes, 11-16-99 1. Because we have two librarians who will be going through their first review process, we discussed the Librarian's Peer Review Evaluation process. Sample mock-ups of documents included in the review packet were distributed, as well as a list of FAQs.
2. We discussed cultural diversity issues. LAUC's statement of "Principles of Community" was distributed. We will read and discuss adopting for LAUC-SF at a future meeting.
3. SB 645 was discussed, along with the implication for LAUC members. This bill will go into effect in January 2000, and is also known as the "fair share" bill. It will require unionized employees in California's state university systems to start paying a representation fee.
4. The rank of "Distinguished Librarian" will be discussed at the upcoming LAUC Executive Board Meeting. David Owen will attend the meeting and report back.
Respectfully submitted,
Peggy Tahir
Secretary - Announcemnts
- Spring Assembly Update (Fang)