April 1996 Minutes

LAUC-SD Executive Board meeting minutes (4/11/96)





Present: Karen Cargille (chair), Lynda Claassen, Tammy Dearie,


     Joanne Donovan, Kari Lucas, Elizabeth Robinson (recorder),


     Barbara Slater.


Absent: Elliot Kanter.








ANNOUNCEMENTS





1. Karen gave a report of the statewide LAUC Executive Board


meeting held March 27, 1996 at UCOP. Here are some of the


highlights.





* Gary Peete met with Stuart Lynn, UC Associate Vice President


for Information Resources and Communications. They discussed


funding of the Digital Library. Projects for this initiative have


not been set; UCOP will not provide further funding. Additional


funding will come from the UCs.





* The Executive Board forwarded the UCOP Comparative Salary


Survey to Jo Anne Boorkman, chair of the LAUC Committee on


Professional Governance, for further review and comment by her


committee. Karen will provide copies of the CSU salary survey for


interested LAUC-SD members.





* The Nominating Committee is preparing ballots for the upcoming


1996-97 election for the following positions: Vice-


President/President-Elect and Secretary. Karen indicated she is a


candidate for Vice-President/President-Elect. Ballots will be


forthcoming from the Secretary. The Committee on Committees,


Rules and Jurisdictions discussed election methods via email.


That group leaves specifics to the campuses as long as


confidentiality is maintained.





* Joanne Euster, current chair of Library Council, indicated that


the Library Council will continue to meet twice a year. Attending


members include UCOP and LAUC representatives, deans of the


library schools, and the University Librarians. The latter group


meets monthly and declined LAUC's request to send a


representative to that meeting.





* Other reports were given on copyright issues concerning


electronic resources, interlibrary loan, the Secretary's report


(including the ballot for the upcoming election), the Cultural


Diversity Committee report (including a proposal to catalog


unique collections), and the Research and Professional


Development Committee will make a second call this year to


solicit additional proposals.





* Budget information continues to indicate a 4% increase for next


year with additional funds used to continue to bring faculty


salaries up to parity, to offset increases in student fees, and


to create outreach programs to contribute to the University's


diversity efforts. The new budgeting formula will be to


distribute money in "block grants" to each campus for each campus


to allocate.





* Gary Peete asked for responses to the stipends report by April


15. UCSD will discuss this at its membership meeting on April 16,


and Karen will forward comments to Gary thereafter.








BUSINESS





1. Preparation for April 16 and May 7 membership meetings - The


group discussed the issues to be presented at either meeting,


including:





For April 16:





* Status of reviews (CAPA) - Tammy (for Kari) will give a brief


report.





* Stipends issue - Karen will recap the proposal and the previous


positions and ask for further comment. She will then send a memo


forward to Gary Peete.





* SDM language in librarian job descriptions - Karen and Kari


will attend PERT's next meeting to present LAUC's response from


the membership meeting. There is potential for CAPA to make


additions and/or revisions to the review procedures.





For May 7:





* Election (Local and Statewide) - Any further candidates will be


solicited for the local election. Procedures for voting will be


presented.





* LAUC-SD R&PD research proposal guidelines - Joanne summarized


the changes made to the document including limitations of one


year to complete the project (if no extensions applied for and


approved), priorites on the use of equipment, requirements of


six-month progress and final reports on the project. Guidelines


will go to the LAUC-SD homepage for ready access.





* Possibility for a LAUC-SD page Webmaster position - Such a


position could be created to deal with creating the electronic


archives of the division.





2. Minutes to GORT - Liz proposed minutes of the various


committees (not just the executive board and membership) be


loaded to the LAUC-SD homepage. She will investigate storage


limitations and the development of the Verity search software for


gopher items. Only other committees producing minutes are R&PD


and the Cultural Diversity Committee. Further development of the


page will be passed on to any future LAUC-SD page Webmaster.








The next LAUC-SD Executive Board meeting will be held May 6,


1996, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. in the Special Collections Seminar Room.