ACTION MINUTES
LAUC Executive Board Meeting
August 17, 1999

NOTE: For more details about any of the agenda items below, please contact your division chair.

PRESENT: Kari Lucas (SD, President), Lucia Snowhill (SB, Past President); Patricia Inouye (D, President Elect), James Larrabee (UCB, LAUC Secretary), Andrea Sevetson (UCB, Chair), Buzz Haughton (D, Chair), Catherine Palmer (I, Chair), Stephen Fry (LA, Chair), Heidi Hutchinson (R, Vice Chair, for Juliet McLaren), Barbara Slater (SD, Chair), Julia Kochi (SF, Chair), Sherry DeDecker (SB, Chair), Deborah Murphy (SC, Chair), Gary Peete (B, Ex Officio as LAUC representative to the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC).

Incoming board: Barbara Glendenning (UCB), Carol LaRussa (D), Yvonne Wilson (I), Marion Peters (LA), Janet Martorana (SB), Sue Chesley (SC).

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lucas

1. "The Culture of Books and Bytes: the Future of UC Faculty Research and UC Libraries", UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead, March 10-12, 2000. The symposium is to be sponsored by LAUC-Riverside with support of other LAUC Divisions.

2. UC Library statistics have been published and distributed by email only. They were sent to the division Chairs.

3. Carol Tomlinson-Keasey has been appointed Chancellor to UC Merced, with changes resulting in Richard Lucier's responsibilities.

4. P. Inouye announced that she would visit each division. Chairs should contact her if a particular date is wanted.

SECRETARY'S REPORT--Larrabee

1. Results of the LAUC Systemwide elections are Cathy Palmer, UCI, Vice President/President Elect and Deborah Murphy, UCSC, Secretary.

OLD BUSINESS

1. California Millennium Conference: plans are going forward for this, after a period of uncertainty. K. Lucas will continue to be on the planning group for her three-year term and inform the Board of developments relevant to LAUC as appropriate.

2. Inititatives to Expand the Librarian Series: K. Lucas reported on activities in support of this and positive results since the last Board meeting. The University Librarians charged an ad hoc task force (John Tanno, UCR, George Bynon, UCD, R. Scherrei, UCLA, K. Lucas, LAUC and Gloria Werner, UCLA) to develop a UL/LAUC proposal, addressing the lower steps of the series as well as upper steps, to be submitted to UCOP for discussion and decision by the Council of Vice-Chancellors (COVC). The Board agreed to let K. Lucas retain her current role for this proposal next year as Past President.

3. TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS FROM THE OUTGOING BOARD

AFTERNOON SESSION: Incoming Board only

4. GUEST: Myron Okada, UC Office of the President, Director of Academic Personnel-Academic Advancement. Update on proposed range adjustment: the Governor's Budget (now approved) contains a 2% range adjustment, effective Oct. 1 (as anticipated). Student fees have been reduced. Faculty are to receive a .9% parity adjustment. M. Okada commented that the University Librarian/LAUC proposal to restructure the Librarian Series is scheduled for the agenda of the Council of Vice Chancellors' (COVC) meeting at the end of September.

5. NEW CHAIR ORIENTATION. Inouye.

NEW BUSINESS

6. Draft committee charges: P. Inouye and K. Lucas will meet with the incoming committee chairs to discuss charges prior to October 1.

7. Discussion of committee structure deferred to the next meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 3:21 P.M.