To:	Committee on Committees, Rules and Jurisdiction

	ROSTER:

	Peter Brueggeman (Chair), San Diego (2000)
	pbrueggeman@ucsd.edu

	Jack von Euw, Berkeley (2001)
	jvoneuw@library.berkeley.edu

	Katherina Lin, Davis (2001
	krlin@ucdavis.edu

	Judy Bube, Irvine (2001)
	jlbube@uci.edu

	Keri S. Botello, Los Angeles (2001)
	kbotello@ucla.edu

	Dick Vierich, Riverside (2000)
	dickvier@citrus.ucr.edu

	Peggy Tahir, San Francisco (2000)
	tahir@library.ucsf.edu

	Yolanda Blue, Santa Barbara (2000)
	blue@library.ucsb.edu

	Kathryn Blackmer-Reyes, Santa Cruz (2000)
	blackmer@cats.ucsc.edu

From:  	Patricia C. Inouye, LAUC president

Re:  	Charge to the Committee on Committee, Rules and Jurisdiction

Thank you for agreeing to serve on the Committee on Committees,
Rules and Jurisdiction. 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 committee
worked very hard last year to incorporate changes in the bylaws
necessitated by the change in the University Librarians Advisory
Structure.  This year, the committee will finalize those changes
and suggest any other changes that could be made to the bylaws.
Other changes will be coming to the committee from the Executive
Board.  

The LAUC Bylaws call for the members on 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, we
discussed the structure of the LAUC standing committees. It was
suggested that another structure for the statewide committees may
facilitate LAUC's work better.  One suggestion was to institute
that more project based groups, rather than standing committees,
with the President soliciting, charging and constituting groups
with specific projects in mind.  From the point of view of the
structure of our organization, please discuss this in the
committee's deliberations.  

As specified in the Bylaws (Article VIII, Section 1.J.1), the
standing charge to the Committee on Committees, Rules and
Jurisdiction is the following: 

a) Review annually, or at the special request of the LAUC
President, the LAUC Bylaws and submit recommendations to the LAUC
President. 

b) Review the Divisions' Bylaws to assure that they are consistent
with the LAUC Bylaws. (See Article VI, Section 2.d.)

c) Address other subjects at the request of the LAUC President and
consider and develop recommendations upon matters concerning
LAUC's committees, rules and jurisdiction. 

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 the 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 very significant LAUC
Committee.