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Executive Board Conference Call
Action Minutes
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
10:00AM to 11:30AM
Present:
I. Call to Order
News and Updates:
Provost M.R.C. Greenwood’s office reported that the new, unified RLF Board is still being finalized and that news on a LAUC appointment to the RLF Board will probably be released by the time of Fall Assembly.
The Webcast of Fall Assembly will go forward, but will not be live. It will be viewable about two days after the event. There is a $1500 charge from the UCB unit responsible for recording, and LAUC and LAUC-B have invited the Berkeley University Library to be a joint sponsor of the event. C. Tarr indicated that University Librarian Leonard believed it might be worthwhile to extend that co-sponsorship opportunity to all of the University Librarians and would consider raising that possibility with them.
II. Date of Spring Assembly at UCSB
a. CAVEATS: UCSB UL availability, Assembly must follow divisional Spring assemblies
The Spring Assembly will take place on June 2nd and 3rd.
III. Discussion of Huwe-Reiswig CDL visit on 10/21
T. Huwe explained that in response to LAUC’s invitation to the CDL staff to attend the Fall Assembly, he and J. Reiswig were invited to attend a staff meeting of the California Digital Library on October 21. Members expressed many different ideas about LAUC’s interactions with the CDL, but the overall feeling was that the visit was a good development.
Action:
Discuss topic further at Executive Board Meeting on November 5 and report on the visit.
IV. Updates on Assembly:
a. Discussion of SOPAG-directed feedback from LAUC members
T. Huwe reported that SOPAG has offered feedback and suggestions that will guide a discussion format at the Fall Assembly. SOPAG will focus on operational and implementation issues. It is anticipated that all but three SOPAG members should be in attendance.
b. Overview of faculty program and where it stands
Faculty attendees are interested in topic of scholarly communication. Panel members have all amassed considerable knowledge and familiarity with library issues due to their service on Academic Senate Committee.
c. Logisics checkin (C. Tarr)
C.Tarr reported 84 registrants so far. In general, logistics for the Fall Assembly have gone well, and Host Committee Chair J. Rosario and her committee members have done an outstanding job. J. Rosario has agreed to document the logistics and planning needs for hosting a LAUC statewide assembly for other divisions. This report will reside on the LAUC Web.
Action:
T. Huwe will discuss dinner logistics online. Campus vice chairs are welcome to attend.
V. "Discussion Charges" for Divisions:
a. The Strategic Planning Report
T. Huwe proposed that the LAUC President could correspond with divisional chairs, and invite local divisions to take up matters of import for discussion at the local level at their discretion. Examples include discussion of the new strategic planning document that has been released. Many chairs indicated that plans are already in the works for discussions of the strategic planning document. There was consensus that this correspondence was a good idea, as it provided for discretionary action at the divisional level.
b. Faculty involvement in LAUC at divisional level
Action:
T. Huwe suggested that local divisions should discuss the merits of inviting one or more faculty members to become ex officio members of the divisional executive committee just as LAUC members serve on an ex officio basis on various Academic Senate Committees. There was discussion and consensus that exploring this idea had merit.
Action:
L. Kennedy suggested local divisions summarize local relationships with academic senate and report by email so all divisions could see what is happening around the UC system in this area, and the members concurred.
c. "Visibility" Committee
Action:
T. Huwe described in brief terms the Visibility Committee that LAUC-R has formed and suggested that LAUC statewide build upon LAUC-R’s efforts by forming an ad hoc statewide Visibility Committee. Other LAUC divisions expressed interest in the idea of setting up visibility committees.
VI. P2P Bill Update: Linda, Mary Linn
Background: James Jacobs, UCSD Government Information Librarian, wrote a white paper on recent developments in the area of Peer to Peer file sharing and outlined the concerns this raises for library-focussed initiatives such as LOCKSS (“Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe”). M. Bergstrom asked how LAUC might respond to this important issue. L. Kennedy pointed out that the Office of Systemwide Library Planning coordinates all legislative action for the University. If LAUC wishes to comment on the legislation, it should coordinate its efforts with Gary Lawrence’s office. T. Huwe suggested that LAUC divisional chairs could contact their University Librarians and use the document prepared by LAUC-SD members as an informational white paper.
Action:
T. Huwe will correspond with Gary Lawrence regarding LAUC’s interest in this matter and recast J. Jacobs’ paper so that it addresses divisional chairs. Divisional chairs will be invited to correspond with their University Librarians at their discretion.
Kari Lucas sent a white paper to T. Huwe that analyzed the current status of librarians as instructors.
Action:
T. Huwe will discuss the matter further with K. Lucas, and the Board will revisit this matter on November 5. One option would be to charge an ad-hoc committee to gather more information and suggest various strategies.
T. Huwe recapped recent efforts regarding inviting LAUC members to add “guest opinions” on topics of interest to the LAUC membership. These opinions would be published on the LAUC Web. The Board expressed general support of this idea but reinforced the concept that opinions must be reviewed by the LAUC President and the Board and that publishing to Web will not occur on a pro forma basis.
Action:
T. Huwe will write opinion piece on librarians and pedagogy, and invite K. Lucas to submit a guest opinion on that topic as well.
IX. Other Business
Action:
T. Huwe will circulate minutes of Spring 2004 Assembly and August 2004 Executive Board Meeting.
X. Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 am.
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