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Thursday, June 7, 2001
Charles E. Young Research Library, Administrative Conference Room
Present: David Cappoli, Linda Maisner, Michael Oppenheim (recorder),
Maureen Russell, Sharon Shafer, Lise Snyder, Ken Wade
Absent: Alice Kawakami, Marion Peters
Guests: Miki Goral, Gloria Werner [2:00 PM-3:00 PM]
- CALL TO ORDER
Lise Snyder called the meeting to order at 1:06 PM.
- SECRETARY’S REPORT
The minutes of the meeting of May 9 were approved, with corrections.
- NEW BUSINESS
A. The Executive Board met in closed
session for about 35 minutes.
B. LAUCTalk-L Concerns
The LAUCTalk-L listserv is LAUC-LA’s official means
of communication with the membership. As such, all UCLA librarians
are subscribed to it on first being employed, and they should remain
subscribed throughout the duration of their careers in the UCLA library
system. Traffic on the list is ordinarily not heavy, but should a
UCLA librarian notice that he or she has not received any LAUCTalk-L
message over the course of several weeks, he or she should notify
the current LAUC-LA Secretary, owner of the list [see LAUC-LA Bylaws,
As Amended April 21, 2001, Article IV, Section 4, c(11)], to determine
the status of his or her subscription. Some may find it advantageous
to set up a folder, or message group, into which LAUCTalk-L mail may
be filtered, to save and read messages at a later date (though time-sensitive
messages are periodically sent out), or simply for general management
of their LAUCTalk-L mail. At this time, there is no formal archive
of LAUCTalk-L messages, especially those that deal solely with LAUC-LA
business. The 2001/2002 Executive Board will address this matter,
and identify a solution.
- CHAIR’S REPORT
Lise reported on the May 16 meeting of the Senate Committee on Library
(COL), which she attended under LAUC-LA’s recently-reinstated “Permanent
Guest” status. Topics discussed and debated at the meeting were
drawn from the Library’s Strategic Plan, 2001/02-2004/05.
These included expansion of library hours (generally supported); the
“eScholarship Initiative”—electronic publishing and digital
archiving (positions expressed ranged from skepticism to support); the
“UCLA Library Information Literacy Initiative” (generally
supported); UCLA’s status in the current ARL rankings [overwhelmingly
influenced, Gloria Werner pointed out at the COL meeting, by the annual
count of books cataloged—a statistic critically impacted by the
drop in Technical Services staffing]; the Orion2 Annual Report; the
UC Collection Management Initiative; and the Library’s report on
Undergraduate
Information Competence at UCLA. For the Committee’s background
information, Lise distributed copies of the ACRL’s Information
Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and the ACRL
Instruction Section’s Model
Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction.
The 2000/2001 COL singled out the following as the most critical issues
to be addressed in their annual report: UCLA’s drop (to 8th place)
in the ARL rankings; the need to refocus on print collections as a priority,
and to provide more funding to support them; the need to consider limiting
the purchase of electronic resources, should the acquisition of and
access to print resources be adversely affected; ongoing faculty dissatisfaction
with Orion2; the need to increase funding to expand Library staffing;
and the need to fund capital improvements to campus libraries.
- OLD BUSINESS
A. Peer Review Update
Maureen Russell reported that 40 actions had been completed
to date, with seven packets remaining outstanding. Eight appointment
actions are in various stages of completion.
B. LAUC-LA Executive Board Future
Meetings
A combination final 2000/2001 Executive Board/Transition
meeting will take place in August, at a date soon-to-be-scheduled
(and likeliest to be during the week of August 20). The 2001/2002
LAUC-LA Executive Board will conduct its first full meeting in either
September or October. Lise and Maureen Russell will contact Linda
Ninomiya about coordinating a meeting schedule for all of 2001/2002
with Gloria Werner’s schedule.
- DISCUSSION WITH GLORIA WERNER
A. “State of Library Information
Systems [LIS]” Program Follow-Up
Lise introduced this topic, noting that most attendees found
the LIS (and other related) presentations, given in Korn Auditorium
on May 18, to be very informative. Some questions still remain about
the best ways of communicating with LIS about new technology “finds”
that may have great potential for implementation in the Library. In
particular, “Which factors would ExCom take into account when
deciding how to appropriate LIS resources?”
Gloria Werner responded that she will ask Terry Ryan, AUL for Information
Technology, to address this question in an article for the Staff
Newsweb. She also recommended communicating informally with LIS
staff, such as Terry, or Stephen Schwartz, or Bo-Gay Tong Salvador,
or Hannah Walker—they may already be looking at the new technology
in question. Gloria added that there will be regular “State of
LIS” presentations, perhaps semi-annually (or even more often),
as there are new developments to report.
B. “State of the Library”
Presentation Follow-Up
This discussion ranged from Library capital improvements
to the closely-related topic of Gloria’s report on a three-hour
meeting that morning during which Executive Vice Chancellor Rory Hume
walked through various campus units’ Strategic Plans,
including the Library’s.
Among the most prominent themes emerging from the “walk-through”
were faculty retention; improving financial support for graduate students
(UC-wide); faculty diversity; and space concerns. Gloria observed
that the prospects for new Library positions to support instructional
services still look good. With funding from CLICC (College Library
Instructional Computing Commons), the Library may be able to get more
laptops out to students—beyond those already being made available
in YRL and College. With some funding from Systemwide Operations,
it will be possible to make a start with the planetary scanners.
C. New Library Human Resources Director
Gloria stated that the job announcement for this position
probably would not go out until September or October. She reiterated
that the LAUC-LA Executive Board would be welcome to review the posting
before it does go out. In the meantime, Rita Scherrei will be continuing
as Interim Director of Library Human Resources.
- ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 3:10 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael Oppenheim
LAUC-LA Secretary
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