March 1995 Minutes

 Minutes, LAUC-SD Membership Meeting





                         March 14, 1995








Attending: P. Brueggeman, A. Butros, K. Cargille, H. Colson, P.


Cruse, J. Donovan, T. Echavarria, C. Graham, R. Gustafson, J.


Hanson, M. Horres, C. Jahns, E. Kanter, B. Miller, P. Mirsky, A.


Prussing, B. Renford, B. Slater, G. Steel, R. Wang, B. Westbrook,


S. Starr (recorder)





I. Announcements





1. The Chair of the LAUC Committee on Committees has sent out our


proposed revised bylaws to committee members for review.





2. The next LAUC Lunch will be 3/30/95 in Canyon View.





3. A. Prussing, Chair of the Nominating Committee, announced that


the interest forms will be distributed to members the first week


in April.  J. Donovan volunteered to join Anne and K. Lucas on


this Committee.





II. Library Personnel Office Update (J. Hanson)





J. Hanson gave an update on changes that have occurred as part of


the library's reorganization of the Human Resources Cluster.  She


has moved her office into the Administrative suite and Maureen


Harden has moved into her old office.  J. Hanson will continue to


have oversight for Academic Reviews, but J. Tait will be handling


more of the logistical issues.  J. Hanson will also continue to


serve as an advisor and will be involved in any disciplinary


situations in the Library; she will also continue to represent


UCSD at meetings with other UC Personnel Officers.  M. Harden


will represent the library in human resources issues on campus.


J. Hansen will continue to chair the reclassification committee.





Three interviews have been scheduled for the Head, SIO Library


and interviews are also being scheduled for the Western European


History Bibliographer.  Two candidates are currently being


interviewed for Infopath Director.  The Staff Training position


has been posted with a closing date of March 30, 1995.  The


Director of Media Central (not a library funded position) is


almost ready for recruitment.





III. CAPA Update (H. Colson)





The new guidelines adopted this year for writing self reviews


seem to be working well.  Reviews are generally 4.5 to 5 pages


long.  J. Hanson reminded the meeting that to make this a formal


guideline requires a vote of the membership and revision of our


Academic Peer Review Guidelines.  This process should begin in


late Spring/early Summer to have the formal guidelines in place


for the next review cycle.





III. Research and Professional Development Report (B. Westbrook)





A summary of the survey of membership needs went out in January.


The results indicated that most people approved of expenditures


for serials using R&PD funds and most people wanted to continue


support for travel.  There was little interest in expenditures of


funds for equipment (only 4 people responded to this item) and


about half wanted some kind of continuing programming (eg. 3


programs on the same topic).





IV. Salary Bifurcation





E. Kanter led a discussion of the proposal from UCOP to group non


Senate academics with staff instead of faculty when considering


salary increases.  He has sent a letter to Chancellor Atkinson as


has J. Lowell (copies of Lowell's letter were distributed).  This


is a very serious situation but there may still be an opportunity


to change the proposed policy.  Members are encouraged to write


letters to administrators on campus and at UCOP.





V. UC Centralized Web Server





E. Kanter led a discussion of the draft proposal to establish a


centralized Web Server.  He noted the positive effects of such a


proposal: centralized distribution would eliminate duplication of


effort and provide support to existing efforts.  The negative


arguments are that each campus needs to tailor it's page to local


programs, that the web is changing too fast to establish policies


now, that it might be hard to keep such resources up-to-date, and


that items paid for locally (eg. electronic journals) could not


be included on such pages.





R. Miller reported that at a recent HOTS meeting it was decided


that UCB would host a listserv for discussion of the UC Digital


Library and a WEB site which would be an archive for proposals


and status reports related to the Digital Library. 





Discussion continued with the following points: the proposal is


not clear on responsibilities, we need to learn from past shared


projects which have encountered some difficulties, pooling our


energy and sharing expertise should be encouraged.  The document


distributed actually contained two separate proposals, one from a


Government Documents librarian and the other a draft proposal


from CDC.  CDC is identifying a need; the proposal from Documents


may not be the only way to meet that need.





VI. LAUC SD Awards





Both UCLA and UCB give an award each year to a librarian of the


year.  The pros and cons of establishing such an award at UCSD


were discussed.  Some members felt it could be divisive and might


tend to favor those who promote themselves.  Others felt that it


would be useful to recognize extraordinary performance.  The


Executive Board will send a proposal out to the membership and


solicit feedback.