TO:	LAUC Committee on Professional Governance

	ROSTER:
	Miki Goral, (Chair) Los Angeles (2000)
	miki@library.ucla.edu
	Myrtis Cochran, Berkeley (2000)
	mcochran@library.berkeley.edu
	[Vacant], Davis (2000)
	Angela Yang, Irvine (2000)
	ayang@uci.edu
	Kuei Chiu, Riverside (2001)
	kuei.chiu@ucr.edu
	Jennifer Reiswig, San Diego (2001)
	jreiswig@ucsd.edu
	Glennda Vandegrift, San Francisco (2001)
	vandegrift@library.ucsf.edu
	Cathy Chui, Santa Barbara (2001)
	chiu@library.ucsb.edu
	Christine Bunting, Santa Cruz (2001)
	cbunting@cats.ucsc.edu

FROM: 	Patricia C. Inouye
	pcinouye@ucdavis.edu

RE: 	Charge to the Committee on Professional Governance

Thank you for agreeing to serve on the Committee on Professional
Governance. 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. This committee worked very hard
last year and presented a landmark study of the restructuring of
the librarian series.

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. 

At the meeting of LAUC committee chairs On September 29, 1999,
it was decided that under the auspices of the committee's
standing charge, the focus of the committee this year would be
the review of the creation, revision and retirement of the LAUC
position papers. As a starting point, your committee will review
the "Guidelines for the Creation of Position Papers." In
addition, after revision, those guidelines should be place on
the LAUC web site.

To ensure continuity, a chair designate, who will serve as Chair
in 2000/2001, 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 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.[Recommended to be deleted from the bylaws]

d) Address other subjects at the request of the President and
consider and develop recommendations on matters of librarian
professional governance. 

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.