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2008 LAUC Spring Assembly

2008 LAUC Spring Assembly at UC Irvine
May 7, 2008 | Bren Center, UC Irvine

2008 Spring Assembly Agenda (PDF)


From The President

Call for Recruitment of LAUC Representatives to Systemwide Advisory Groups [May 2007]

President's Update on Statewide Activities [March 2007] (Word document)

In My Opinion

Four Questions for 2010

Keeping an Outward Focus: Notes from the 2004 Fall Assembly

Professional Life in an Era of “Continuous Planning”

LAUC News

2008 Election Calendar

2007 Fall Assembly

2006 salary scale information

The Future of Government Information
James R. Jacobs (UCSD)

LAUC Divisional Responses to "Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly Information"

Instructional Roles Ad Hoc Committee

The Case for Scholars’ Management of Author Rights
Carol Ann Hughes (UCI) opinion on issues to consider as we explore alternative publishing models

Information Literacy: What UC Libraries are Doing
Page hosted by UC libraries

Committee to Study LAUC Sponsorship of an Open Access E-Journal

"Information Literacy: Wilder Makes (Some Right, But) Many Wrong Assumptions"
Esther Grassian (UCLA) opinion on the challenges of information literacy in the context of domain specific database interfaces, metasearch technology, and the Internet

"UC Librarians: Able to evolve or stuck in a rut?"
Kari Lucas (UCSD) opinion on librarians and instruction opportunities; implications for instruction librarians


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Current Professional Issues

The following reports and documents are of special interest for members of LAUC, and may also be of interest to those who follow trends in academic libraries.

Library Technology Advisory Group Report: Library IT — The Next Decade [August 2006]

LAUC Divisional Responses to "Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly Information." [April 2005]

Regional Libraries Facilities Planning Task Force, Final Report [December 2004]

Systemwide Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly Information Report [June 2004]

The Google Generation: SOPAG Report [October 2003]

New Models of Library Service: Deep Resource Sharing and Collaboration [April 2003]