Thursday, January 18, 2001
College Library, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Powell 228

Present: David Cappoli, Alice Kawakami, Linda Maisner, Marion Peters, Michael Oppenheim (recorder), Maureen Russell, Sharon Shafer, Lise Snyder, Ken Wade.

1. CALL TO ORDER:

   The meeting was called to order at 10:15 a.m.

2. CHAIR'S REPORT:

   Lise Snyder related updated information from LAUC President Cathy Palmer. Earlier in January, Cathy met with a group of University Librarians and Barbara Lucas, Chair of the Statewide Professional Governance Committee, to discuss Past President Patsy Inouye's letter to the ULs concerning LAUC's discussions during 2000 relevant to proposed revision of Position Paper 1, Criteria for Appointment or Promotion to the Ranks of Associate Librarian and Librarian and Advancement to Librarian Step V. (Gloria Werner, UCLA, and Brian Schottlaender, UCSD, were unable to attend this meeting). Those ULs present discussed where Criterion 1 performance fits in terms of supporting the "Distinguished" designation, and all agreed that there must be clear evidence that the candidate has extended his or her influence beyond the library or the campus. Such recognition may occur at different, yet equally valid, levels. Cathy asked UC Santa Cruz UL Allan Dyson, as Head of the ULs group, to write a formal response to LAUC. This issue is among those on the agenda for the February 2nd meeting of the LAUC Statewide Executive Board in Oakland.

   Prior to this meeting, Lise asked David Yamamoto to update the LAUC-LA Web site with the new editions (effective October 1, 2000) of the Salary Scale tables, which separate non-represented librarians from the represented. An unofficial copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (AKA "the new contract"), ratified in December 2000, is available within the Human Resources section of the LAUC Statewide Web site, at. Miki Goral, UC-AFT Secretary-Treasurer, is working on getting a printed copy of the final version of the MOU delivered to all UC librarians.

3. SECRETARY'S REPORT:

   The minutes for the November 28th meeting were approved with minor corrections.

4. OLD BUSINESS:

   Lise distributed copies of the "Values, Vision & Mission Statements" (Draft 2, January 16, 2001), which were originally generated at the Library's Strategic Planning Retreat last December 11-12. These statements "drive" the Strategic Plan (which is to be submitted to the campus administration on March 1). Another product of the retreat was the document "Key Result Areas (KRAs)." The KRAs have "owners" and "co-owners"; the former either proposed a KRA, or already have the formal responsibility (as a job requirement) for overseeing it.

   Prior to this meeting, KRA #2-"Acquire, organize, preserve, provide access to collections"-had already been discussed at two meetings of the Collections Management Council. As an outcome of those meetings, all "action bullets" except one ("create an integrated gateway/portal to all materials," with a timeline of 2002-2003) were removed from KRA #2.

   Lise is co-owner, with Library Human Resources Director Charles Batey as owner, of KRA #4-"Recruit, retain, and develop highly trained staff."

   Consideration of the KRAs will continue on January 24th at the next Administrative Conference (AdCon) meeting [Secretary's note: the minutes of that meeting have since been posted on the Web, at http://staff.library.ucla.edu/staff/committees/acc/minutes/minutes.htm].

   The matter of reinstituting LAUC-LA's presence at Academic Senate Committee on Library (COL) meetings was revisited. The Executive Board reviewed, debated changes, and ultimately reached consensus on Lise's draft letter to COL Chair Donald McCallum, Prof. of Art History. The letter describes the role of LAUC-LA and the contribution it can make to the work of the COL, and proposes that Lise and Prof. McCallum meet soon for further discussion.

   The official "joint charge" to the LAUC-LA Library Plans & Policies and Professional Governance Committees, as sent by Lise in late December to Chairs Barbara Schader and Ken Wade (respectively), was distributed to the Board and briefly reviewed. Lise will be posting the charge on LAUCTalk-L, in preparation for discussion by the LAUC-LA membership at the next "Lunch with LAUC."

   The final item discussed was the Executive Board's meeting with Gloria Werner, scheduled for January 31st. Likely agenda items were reviewed.

5. NEW BUSINESS:

   Gloria Werner will attend the second hour of all monthly Executive Board meetings for the remainder of the year. The next meeting of the Board (in the YRL Administrative Conference Room) will be scheduled for February 13th or 20th, depending on Gloria's availability.

6. ADJOURNMENT:

   The meeting was adjourned at 12 noon.

Respectfully submitted,
Michael Oppenheim
Secretary, LAUC-LA