TO: 	LAUC Committee on Cultural Diversity

	ROSTER:

	Barbara Ceizler Silver (Chair), Santa Barbara (2000)
	@library.ucsb.edu

	Lillian Castillo-Speed, Berkeley (2001)
	csl@library.berkeley.edu

	Buzz Haughton, Davis (2001)
	bxhaughton@ucdavis.edu

	Christina Woo, Irvine (2000)
	cjwoo@uci.edu

	Catherine Y. Lee, Los Angeles  (2001)
	clee@library.ucla.edu

	Richard Chabran, Riverside (2001)
	richard.chabran@ucr.edu

	Craig Haynes, San Diego (2000)
	chaynes@ucsd.edu

	Jackie Wilson, San Francisco (2000)
	wilsonj@library.ucsf.edu

	Hui-Yee Chang, Santa Cruz (2000)
	hychang@cats.ucsc.edu

FROM:  	Patricia C. Inouye, LAUC president
	pcinouye@ucdavis.edu

RE: 	Charge to the Committee on Cultural Diversity

Thank you for agreeing to serve on the Committee on Cultural
Diversity.This year, the overall goal for the work of the
committees is to be meaningful and provide future directions for
LAUC to explore in the future. The LAUC Committee on Cultural
Diversity should select the focus of their work from the
suggestions given below.  Barbara Ceilzer Silver will be
responding to me 1999 with the committee's primary area of
concentration.

The LAUC Bylaws call for the members of each standing committee to
be appointed by the LAUC President to serve two-year staggered
terms, and for the divisions to be alphabetically divided into two
groups, with divisions in one of the two groups having new members
appointed each year.
 
To ensure continuity, a chair designate, who will serve as Chair
in 2000/2001, will be appointed within the next few months. 

At the meeting of LAUC committee chairs on September 29, 1999, the
suggested areas of focus for the Committee on Cultural Diversity
were discussed. This year, the committee, under the auspices of
the standing charge in the LAUC Bylaws, may focus on one or
several of the following:

What initiatives are there to preserve digital materials from
culturally diverse areas?

Are University libraries creating barriers that inhibit cultural
diversity when they do not need to?

What is University libraries doing to decrease the "digital
divide"? How well is University libraries serving students for
whom computers are not part of their experience?

Are there recommendations in the "Many voices of diversity report"
that need to be pursued? 

What is the current diversity of libraries at the University of
California? 

In your discussions, take some time to discuss the continuing
existence of the Committee.  Today, campus library-level
committees encompass all library staff, not just librarians,
indicating that issues of diversity may have a more useful venue
at the level of each campus rather than statewide.

According to the Bylaws (Article VIII, Section 1.J.5), the
standing charge to the Committee on Cultural Diversity is to:

a) Advise the President and the Executive Board, and serve as a
resource for other committees and LAUC Divisions on issues and
initiatives concerning cultural diversity in University libraries.

b) Consider and develop recommendations and implementation
strategies on matters and initiatives concerning cultural
diversity in University libraries.

c) Address other subjects at the request of the President on
matters and initiatives of cultural diversity in University
libraries.  

The Committee's recommendations may be submitted to the LAUC
Executive Board for review at any of the scheduled meetings on
March 3, 2000, May tba, 2000 (Pre-Spring Assembly), October tba,
2000, with the final report due November tba, 2000 (Pre-Fall
Assembly) 

Formal recommendations that need approval of the membership are
presented in the form of motions. Please review appropriate
sections of Sturgis for how to make motions.
 
Your contribution to the work of LAUC is very important. Thank you
again for your willingness to serve on this LAUC Committee.