June 1995 Minutes

    Minutes


            LAUC-SD Membership Meeting, June 15, 1995








Present: L. Abrams, L. Barnhart, P. Brueggeman, K. Cargille, T.


Echavarria, C. Graham, C. Haynes, C. Hightower, M. Horres, E.


Kanter, K. Lucas, B. Miller, P. Mirsky, A. Prussing, B. Renford,


R. Ringler, E. Yutani, S. Starr (recorder)





E. Kanter began the meeting by introducing the guest speaker, Jon


Welch, who addressed the meeting on the subject of affirmative


action.  T. Echavarria, Co-Chair of the Cultural Diversity


Committee, taped the presentation.





Announcements:





1. Local Election results: Vice Chair/Chair Elect: L. Claassen;


Secretary: E. Robinson; CAPA: C. Graham and R. Lindemann;


Delegate: B. Slater; Member at Large: T. Dearie.





2. Summer Activities:  A membership meeting will be held in the


first half of August (date to be arranged), and a social event is


planned for September to welcome new LAUC members.





Committee reports:





a. Research and Professional Development:  L. Abrams announced


that C. Hightower had received a local grant for expenses in


connection with her presentation to ASEE and B. Westbrook had


received a statewide grant for his research project on archives.


The next deadline for applications for local grants is June 23,


1995.





b. CAPA: P. Brueggeman announced that 18 of 23 files were


complete and the remaining 5 had been forwarded by CAPA to


Library Administration.  A review of issues that arose during


this year's review process will take place at a Fall membership


meeting.





Discussion item:





The Statewide Committee on Library Plans and Policies had


requested each campus to have a discussion on continuing


education needs.  The membership brainstormed the following


ideas:





I. What are our Continuing Education and Training Needs?





1. How to do WEB pages


2. How to use Windows effectively


3. Facilitation skills


4. Electronic Library: access and dissemination


5. Databases: searching and construction


6. Research: analysis, how to.


7. Education for new bibliographic assignments


8. Information technology: instruction and design


9. Classroom teaching skills


10. Skills we need to help organize the internet.


11. Time management, prioritizing email


12. Stress management


13. Meetings Management


14. Courtesy, etiquette in all settings.


15. Understanding diverse information needs.





II. How can we go about meeting these needs?





1. Videoconferencing


2. Distance learning (sharing Santa Barbara conferences for


example)


3. Tell new trainer our priorities


4. Identify opportunities for CE/Training and ask for funding.


5. Share with other campuses our ideas


6. Interact with on campus resources


7. Release time for learning


8. Program in time in your schedule for learning


9. More funding for travel & professional development


10. Use skills of staff more.


11. Share what we learn from professional development with each


other.


12. Systematic calendar of training opportunities


13. Develop a consensus of priorities for training, eg 6 months


at a time.


14. Every new program have a training impact statement.