September 28, 1998                         
     
     TO:  LAUC Committee on Professional Governance
     
     Myrtis Cochran,   Berkeley (2000)
     Linda Kennedy,    Davis (2000)
     Angela Yang,      Irvine (2000)
     Miki Goral, Los   Angeles (2000)
     Heidi Hutchinson, Riverside, Chair (1999) 
     Cathy Chiu,       Santa Barbara (1999) 
     Tami Echavarria,  San Diego (1999)
     Paul Wakeford,    San Francisco (1999) 
     Cynthia Jahns,    Santa Cruz (1999)
     
     FROM:     Kari Lucas, LAUC President
     
     RE:  Charge to the Professional Governance Committee
     
     Thank you for agreeing to serve on the Professional Governance 
     Committee.  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.  
     
     This year the Committee members from Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Los 
     Angeles terms end September 30, 2000.  The terms of the continuing 
     members from Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and 
     Santa Cruz Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Los Angeles end September 30, 
     1999.  
     
     The committee chair will inform you of budget information for 
     arranging payment for travel to committee meetings. Each division 
     handles these transactions differently, so please be sure to check 
     with your local accounting officers to find out how your specific 
     division charges to the LAUC account.
     
     To ensure continuity, a chair designate, who will serve as Chair in 
     1999/00, will be appointed within the next few months. 
     
     According to the Bylaws (Article VIII, Section 1.J.2), the standing 
     charge to the Professional Governance Committee is to: 
     
     a) Advise the President and the Executive Board on issues concerning 
     APM revisions that affect librarians, peer review, and other 
     professional governance issues not covered by the other standing 
     committees. 
     
     b) Serve as a review body for Divisions who may request evaluation of 
     local peer review procedures.
     
     c) Create and maintain a LAUC Manual which contains among other items, 
     a definition of terms used in the peer review process; a model call 
     for personnel actions; and explications of criteria for review in APM 
     210-4e (3) (a) - (d); categories to be included in the  
     Biographical-Bibliographical Form; guidelines for preparing 
     confidential summaries; and guidelines for types of documents required 
     for merit reviews and promotions. The appropriate LAUC position papers 
     shall be incorporated into this manual. 
     
     d) Address other subjects at the request of the President and consider 
     and develop recommendations on matters of librarian professional 
     governance. 
     
     In addition to the standing charge: 
     
     1.  Prepare a report to present at the 1998 Fall Assembly that 
     provides recommendations and justification for restructuring the 
     librarian salary scales that addresses the following:
     
     1.  Raising the salary levels for the librarian series to increase 
     success in recruiting and retaining the best librarians in the UC 
     system in the coming decade, that;
     
     1a.  Takes into account the librarian salary scales in the California 
     State University system; analyzes hiring         patterns and salaries 
     of new graduates of the nation's      leading programs in library and 
     information science;        includes other pertinent factors.
     
     2.  Review the LAUC Manual and make changes where appropriate to 
     reflect the restructure from Library Council to the Systemwide Library 
     Planning: Systemwide Library Scholarly Information and Advisory 
     Committee (SLASIAC) and the University Librarians Advisory Structure: 
     Systemwide Operating and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG)(implemented 
     7/1/98).
     
     The Committee's recommendations should be submitted to the LAUC 
     Executive Board for review at any of the scheduled Executive Board 
     meetings in October 23, December 10 (Pre-Fall Assembly), March 12, or 
     May tab (Pre-Spring Assembly).  
     
     Formal recommendations that need approval of the membership are 
     presented to the Spring Assembly in the form of motions.  Please 
     review appropriate sections of Sturgis for how to make motions. Please 
     use the report format appended to this charge letter. 
     
     LAUC COMMITTEE/REPRESENTATIVE REPORT FORMAT* SUBJECT LINE: Committee 
     Name
     BODY OF MESSAGE:
     Date:
     TO: LAUC President
     FR: Committee Name
     RE: Year (e.g. 1996/97) Report Name (e.g. Fall Assembly Report or 
     Final Report) 
     Committee Charge:
     Summary of Action Items:
     Body of Report with Discussion and Recommendations** Names of 
     Committee Members
     Attachments
     *Each section of report to be labeled in bold print 
     **If recommendations are to be acted on by the LAUC Assembly, they 
     need to be formatted as resolutions according to Sturgis, Alice. 
     (1988).  Standard code of parliamentary procedure.  3rd ed., new and 
     rev.  New York : McGraw-Hill.