Present: Gail Nichols (Chair), Buzz Haughton (Secretary), Susan Llano, Erin Murphy, Rebecca Davis, Karen Andrews
The
February 15 Executive Board minutes were approved with one correction.
Announcements
(Gail Nichols): Annie Lin has been appointed to the Nominations and Elections
Committee.
Statewide
Executive Board (Gail Nichols): The Executive Board met at UC Irvine February
22. LAUC did not comment on four SOPAG reports, but the Executive Board intends
to comment on future ones. Gary Peete talked about his position as the LAUC
representative to SLASIAC, which needs a new chair. SLASIAC has a subcommittee
charged with examining the role of the RLFs, which may establish guidelines for
preserving a complete, good-quality paper copy of each journal.
The
Committee on Professional Governance was to meet the last week of February. It
intends to have the results of the survey that it has not yet devised ready for
the Spring Assembly. Some campus LAUC research committees have such small
amounts to grant librarians that librarians from those campuses are making
small requests for research monies of the statewide Research Committee.
A
UC Systemwide Information Literacy Program Development Task Force will be
formed; a three-member planning group has already been appointed to recommend
names for the task force.
Research
Committee (Rebecca Davis): A total of $84,000 in proposals has been submitted
to the statewide Research Committee; about $30,000 is available. The committee
is sifting through the proposals now. There has been discussion about the
appropriateness of “funding one’s passion,” i.e. whether to fund interesting
research projects having nothing to do with librarianship. The Executive Board
agreed it would be suitable to schedule a general membership meeting on the
issues of release time and replacement funding for public service obligations
for librarians doing nonlibrary-related research.
Mentoring
(Karen Andrews): Peg Durkin has indicated her willingness to serve on the task
force; they will meet soon.
Nominations
and Elections Committee (Susan Llano): The committee needs another member.
Chair Nichols will approach one or more LAUCD members to get a volunteer to
fill this vacancy.
Program
Committee (Erin Murphy): There will be a program on March 20 9:30-11 a.m. in
the Library Instruction Lab: Ken Firestein will talk about e-reference, and
Lisa Jerant will give her view of the best consumer websites.
The
Executive Board selected May 1 as a good date for the next general membership
meeting.
The
meeting adjourned at 10:30 a.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Buzz
Haughton