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The LAUC Bylaws amendments proposed by the Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction were passed by LAUC Fall Assembly members on November 17 and, on January 24, LAUC President Cathy Palmer sent the membership-ratified amendments to the LAUC Bylaws to Myron Okado of UCOP. Most of these amendments were necessitated by changes in the University Librarian advisory structure. LAUC bylaws and all amendments are subject to the approval of the President of the University, to assure that they are in accord with the Standing Orders of The Regents and with the rules and regulations of the University. UCOP revised and approved them, issuing them on Sept 18th. An HTML version of the revised 2001 bylaws were edited by Peter Brueggeman for posting on the LAUC web site, along with an HTML version of the 1997 Bylaws (which also were corrected by Peter Brueggeman to coincide with UCOP's official version).
Doris Lopez at UCOP noticed several differences between the issued hard copy of the 1997 Bylaws and the web version of the same on LAUC's website. All were typographical corrections, save one. Article IV, Section 10 (Duties of the Past President) was added to the Bylaws on 3-1-93 and was omitted in the 1997 version on LAUC's website. The web version was used as the basis for this Committee's work on the 2001 revisions, which then did not address Article IV, Section 10. Article IV, Section 10b "Serve as a representative of LAUC on the Library Council" is problematic since the LAUC Past President no longer serves as the LAUC representative on the successor to Library Council. Thus it needs to be revised, and it also presents a good opportunity for the LAUC Executive Board to review all the duties of the Past President for the next bylaws revision.
The 2001 bylaws revisions incorporated a request from the Cultural Diversity Committee to be renamed the Diversity Committee. The LAUC Executive Board approved this name change, stipulating that all responsibilities remain the same. The word "cultural" appears in the Committee's responsibilities. The retention or deletion of this word needs to be considered by LAUC with respect to the Committee's name change. Specific direction to the Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction needs to be received if LAUC wishes to pursue this.
A concern about the mention of APM sections in the LAUC Bylaws was forwarded to Myron Okado of UCOP for comment. If represented librarians are no longer governed by any of the APM, then the mention of the APM in the Bylaws might be problematic, excluding the represented librarians because their criteria now appears in the MOU? Does LAUC receive its authority through the APM? No response was received. Specific direction to the Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction needs to be received if LAUC wishes to pursue this.
Cathy Palmer, LAUC President, advised that the Bylaws need to reviewed in light of the changes necessitated by the most recent MOU, per her email of 29 August: ".....After careful review, and after having just gone through the process of appointing LAUC representatives to the University Librarian Advisory Groups, I find that the bylaws do not accurately reflect the process. There are two reasons for this. When the Bylaws were first being reviewed for revisions in light of these changes, we had only gone through the process once; it was not (probably still isn't) completely understood how the process would work. The second reason is that the University Librarians made a change in the process that LAUC was forced to accept......" Specific direction to the Committee on Committees, Rules, and Jurisdiction needs to be received if LAUC wishes to pursue this.