Tuesday, May 17, 2005 , 1:00-3:00 p.m.
West Electronic Classroom, YRL

resent:, Ellen Broidy, Laura Cadra, Janet Carter (Chair) , Debe Costa, Miki Goral, Orchid Mazurkiewicz (Recorder), Kate Pecarovich, Ken Wade. Absent: Ruby Bell-Gam . Guests: Caroline Miller, Louise Ratliff.  

1. Call to order

The meeting was called to order at 1:05 p.m.

2. Agenda review and announcements

3. Secretary’s Report

   -Review and approval of the April 19, 2005 Executive Board minutes

The minutes of the April 19 th Executive Board meeting were approved.

4. Chair's report

   -Update on LAUC Spring Assembly, June 2, 2005

The ballots for the LAUC election have been mailed, as is required by the by-laws. Orchid Mazurkiewicz will also send out the slate to the LAUCtalk mailing list today. Miki Goral has ordered a van to take to the Assembly and Lise Snyder has volunteered to drive it. Miki will send out a reminder in case anyone else wants to go in the van.

   -Update on LAUC-LA Spring Meeting, May 26, 2005

Janet Carter reported that people have started sending in their committee reports to LAUCtalk and David Cappoli is loading them on the LAUC-LA website. Janet announced the slate of candidates for the LAUC-LA elections. Orchid will send it out on LAUCtalk. We can still take nominations from the floor at the assembly.

   -Update on the Peer Review Task Force

Janet reported that the Task Force will be meeting on Thursday to review the final draft of the Call before forwarding it to the LAUC-LA Executive Board. She believes that will be the last meeting of the Task Force.

   -Recruitment for LAUC representatives to Statewide groups

Terry Huwe has notified the division chairs of impending vacancies on the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC), Heads of Technical Services (HOTS), Library Privacy Liaisons (LPL), and the Resource Sharing Committee (RSC). She will send the notice out to the division with a deadline of June 17 th for applications. The board will then discuss this in executive session at the June 21 st meeting and forward our suggestions to Terry Huwe.

5. Vice- chair’s   report

   -Update on 2005 Peer Review Committee activities

 Debe Costa reported that there remain three committees that will need to re-convene and two packets that are still to be received. Everything should be complete in the near future. Packets have been forwarded to Gary . Human Resources reports that decisions will be made and announced on schedule. There will still be a peer review de-briefing. Miki suggested that we might want to have it in the summer since the new CAPA will be starting work then. Debe will work with the library administration to plan a date.

6. Committee reports

   -Committee on Library Plans and Policies

No report.

   -Committee on Professional Governance

Ken Wade reported that the Statewide committee has not yet been in touch regarding LAUC-LA’s by-law changes.

    -Committee on Research and Professional Development

Laura Cadra reported that the deadline for mini-grant applications is May 20th. So far only one application has been received. Miki asked whether any leftover funds will go back into the general professional development pot. Laura will ask LBS about this.

6. Old Business

   -Update on the LAUC Committee on Professional Governance charge

Louise Ratliff reported that she has sent her Statewide committee chair an email detailing the relevant discussions from the last meeting of the LAUC-LA Executive Board, attended by Gary Strong. She detailed the concerns that were ex[pressed by both the Board and Gary regarding the recruitment and retention of new librarians, and the possible need for upward adjustments in the middle range of the salary scale in order to be competitive. Louise has not yet heard back from the committee chair with further direction on how to proceed.  

   -CAPA administrative support

Janet had sent an email to the executive board asking for suggestions of what administrative support and facilities will be required for the CAPA as per Gary ’s request. She compiled the suggestions and distributed the list to the board. The list was reviewed and discussed. Janet will consolidate the lists and re-send it to the board members before passing it on to Gary .

7. New Business

   -Proposal for a joint LAUC-LA/LSA program on manuscript collections

Vicky Steele emailed Janet with an idea for a joint program on what’s involved in the acquisition of a manuscript collection. It would be done at the processing site at Powell. As there are already a number of programs in the works, Janet suggested that we forward the idea to the Committee on Programs as a possibility for the fall.

   -CCRJ Report to Spring Assembly

Caroline Miller reported on a charge to the CCRJ from Terry Huwe. The charge involved a comprehensive review and overhaul of the LAUC by-laws. She discussed the problematic nature of the scale of the charge and the spring deadline for a report. After some review of the work done by the CCRJ to this point, discussion ensued on the charge and the resulting changes and whether there has been enough divisional input into both. Janet, Kate, and Miki will begin discussion of these concerns on the LAUC delegates’ listserv.

The meeting adjourned at 2:48 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Orchid Mazurkiewicz
LAUC-LA Secretary