Librarians Association of the University of California

20 November, 2002

To: Esther Grassian
      LAUC President 2002/2003

Fm: Tammy Dearie
      LAUC Representative to SOPAG

Re: SOPAG Report for Fall Assembly

The Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group (SOPAG) continues to meet regularly, on an almost monthly basis. Minutes of the meetings are located from the SOPAG web page, at http://www.slp.ucop.edu/sopag/. The group remains very active in all aspects of library operations and planning, including serving as advisory to the California Digital Library planning efforts.

Since my spring 2002 report, the group has focused on several areas of importance to LAUC. I have listed them below, with brief summaries of progress or issues of relevancy to LAUC.

• All Campus Groups (ACG) - SOPAG continues to work closely with the All-Campus Groups, meeting annually to discuss goals and objectives, working to increase communication, and reviewing the work of the committees. This is an excellent avenue for communication with LAUC to SOPAG.

• Task Force on Access Integration Report - The final report of the Task Force and the ensuring SOPAG Access Integration Model document was widely discussed by SOPAG with eventual discussions by the ACG, individual campuses, and LAUC. Discussion focused on issues of direction for UC in terms of catalogs, databases, portals, search engines, and new models to accomplish a "one-stop shopping" concept. SOPAG discussions continue and with emphasis on steps to broaden the input. The possibility of UC-wide workshops to continue the discussion has been broached. Workshops, focusing on the public services perspective of the Access Integration Model, may be followed with a UC Digital Library Forum, which would address the implementation challenges. LAUC's input in these ongoing discussions are crucial to developing a system, or a direction, with our input, as librarians.

• Task Force on Digital Visual Resources - this group, formed in summer 2002, is charged with "exploring the opportunities, challenges and benefits in collaborating on digital resource repository(ies) and related services within and among the UC Libraries." As a first step, they are conducting a survey of visual resources held by the UC libraries. While many UC libraries do not have visual resources held within the library, the collections, access and preservation issues are of great importance to all librarians.

• Privacy Task Force Report - as a result of the report from the Task Force a Library Privacy Liaisons (LPL) group was formed to take overall responsibility for addressing privacy issues as they relate to the University of California Libraries. This group will begin meeting this fall/winter and may have far reaching impact on many aspects of libraries and librarians.

• Task Force on Government Documents -- this task force is "charged to develop a framework and an implementation plan for creating a unified government publications repository for the University of California Libraries, based on the general concepts described in the attached CMPG report." LAUC members have been very involved in this issue and early input from LAUC helped develop the charge.

• HOPS Common Interest Group on Information Literacy - in a convergence of interest between LAUC, SOPAG and HOPS, a common interest group was created to discuss the issue of Information Literacy within UC. The group has been charged and members identified. They have been advised to coordinate with the LAUC IL group. They have a complementary charge that will allow the two groups to work together, or at least in parallel.

• Task Force on Collaborative Strategies for Archiving of Print in the Digital Environment - the newest SOPAG task force is beginning the formidable task of identifying and analyzing a number of alternative strategies for archiving print material. The issues of archiving and preserving are of great interest to all of LAUC and involvement will help shape the decisions.