August 30, 2000
YRL Administrative Conference Room

Present: Valerie Bross, David Cappoli, Stephen Davison, Steve Fry, Jan Goldsmith, (recorder), Linda Maisner, Caroline Miller, Michael Oppenheim, Marion Peters, Louise Ratliff, Maureen Russell, Sharon Shafer, Lise Snyder, Ken Wade.

Absent: Alice Kawakami.

1. CALL TO ORDER:

   The meeting was called to order at 1:14 p.m.

2. CHAIR'S REPORT:

   Marion Peters gave a Welcome and Farewell. She then reported on the statewide transition meeting for the LAUC Executive Board, which she and Lise Snyder attended on August 10 in Oakland. She passed out a copy of the list of URLs that was given out at the meeting. It included URLs for the Systemwide Library Planning homepage, SOPAG, and SLASIAC. She suggested that Board members look at these sites, as well as the recently updated LAUC statewide homepage, and become familiar with the information there. She briefly discussed the letter from Peter Chester that LAUC President Patsy Inouye read at the meeting. It directed LAUC to stay out of any discussion by its members on union decertification. She reported that Cathy Palmer and Patsy Inouye had accepted Ellen Switkes's invitation to meet with Myron Okada to discuss possible changes to APM 360-18. Cathy and Patsy discouraged the removal of this APM section as a reaction to dealing with the current discrepancy in salaries between represented and non-represented librarians. Alternative wordings were discussed, along with the suggestion to incorporate some of the language from APM 360, Appendix A. Officially, nonrepresented librarians have been switched to the new salary scale, although there seemed to be some confusion about this at the statewide meeting. Snyder reported that all unrepresented librarians at UCLA that had actions this year have been moved to the new salary scale. When bargaining is completed, she will have to discuss with Gloria Werner what will happen with the represented librarians that were up for review this year. The last issue discussed at the meeting was whether or not the statewide Executive Board would have a retreat to discuss LAUC's committee structure. Rather than have a retreat as originally proposed at the May meeting, a small working committee will begin to address this issue.

3. SECRETARY'S REPORT:

   The minutes for June 8 were approved with slight corrections.

4. OLD BUSINESS:

   As part of the LAUC Division reports, Louise Ratliff reported that the new University Librarian at UCSB had organized a "library council."

5. NEW BUSINESS:

   The Statewide LAUC Fall Assembly will be held in Berkeley November 16-17, so the LAUC-LA Fall Membership meeting should be held a week or two before that. The Board discussed several dates, and settled on Thursday, November 9th, if it can be arranged at the Faculty Center for that day. It was suggested that because we have had many new librarians in the past few years, everyone should be given name tags.

   Programs: Ratliff reported on a Brown Bag Lunch held in July which was very successful. Librarians shared issues they had learned from conferences this year. Some of the attendees suggested that next year's Program Committee host a more formal program along these lines.

   Committees: Snyder reported that a call had gone out for committee participation for 2000/01, and that the response had been good. The first meeting of the new Board will work on committee assignments. Caroline Miller reported that the Committee on Library Plans and Policies had an emergency meeting to discuss issues brought up last month on e-mail, regarding the use of LAUCTALK-L. They plan to recommend that a Librarians' listserv be established that could be used for discussions and posting of non-LAUC information. We were reminded that anyone could subscribe to the Union's listserv, including non-members.

6. OTHER:

   The California Millennium Conference will be held in conjunction with CLA in November. There was some discussion surrounding this item as to the criteria used by the LAUC President in deciding which e-mails should or should not be distributed at the Division level.

7. ADJOURNMENT:

   The transition meeting was adjourned at 2:40 pm.