Present: Anderson, Ariel, Heiman (recorder), Horn, MacLeod (chair), Manaka

The General Membership meeting was cancelled by the chair due to a conflict with the interview schedule of a SPIRIT Program Outreach Librarian candidate. A meeting of the Executive Board was scheduled in its place.

1. Minutes of the 2 Jan. 2002 Executive Board Meeting were corrected and approved.

2. Arrangements for LAUC Executive Board Meeting on Feb. 22 at UCI.

The LAUC EB meeting will take place at UCI on Feb. 22 from 11-4. Main Library room 570 has been booked from 10-5. MacLeod sent a memo to LAUC Chair Debbie Murphy asking what arrangements were needed in regard to lodging, meals, transportation, etc.
Murphy responded there would be no overnight stay. Lunch and afternoon beverages were requested. MacLeod will contact the rest of the LAUC EB to verify their lodging and transportation needs. The UCI UL will be asked to say a few words of welcome at the beginning of the meeting. A call to LAUC-I General Membership will be issued for volunteers in making arrangements.

3. Information Literacy.

The issue was raised of the need for an ad hoc committee on Information Literacy at UCI. It was felt the Academic Librarianship Committee was too busy working on a mentoring program and annual plan survey to be given this additional responsibility. It was proposed that first we have a program on ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to raise people's interest and then form a committee. After discussion, it was decided to go ahead and form an ad hoc committee without waiting for the program. The chair will draft a call for committee volunteers and share with the EB and Cathy Palmer, the Head of the Dept. of Education & Outreach, for comment before general distribution.

It was recommended that the program on Information Literacy be followed-up by a white paper. Before implementation of the ACRL Standards, there is a need to access what is already being done at UCI by taking into account the existing bibliographic instruction and credit courses. We need to bring together what the library is and has been doing and what we would like to do. Anderson pointed out that at the Jan. 2nd EB meeting Palmer
said she wants to work on the day to day details and planning on Information Literacy and that LAUC-I should be promoting the big picture.

The Program Committee will be directed to arrange a program on the ACRL Standards. Patricia Iannuzzi of UC Berkeley, who chaired the ACRL committee that developed the Standards, will be recommended as a speaker. Iannuzzi should be asked to discuss the Standards and give examples of how they are being implemented at individual institutions. Ariel recommended that the program be held in the morning leaving the afternoon for brainstorming with the EB, Palmer, and the ad hoc committee.

4. LAUC-I Standing Committees.

The Academic Librarianship Committee this year is focusing its energy on a mentoring program. MacLeod will review the charge of the ALC and will work with its chair to draft enhancements. This may eventually fit in with a re-thinking of the Professional Development Committee, which will be necessary if its activities move beyond attendance at conferences.

Manaka raised the issue as to whether the Cultural Diversity Committee was still needed.
The committee has been inactive in recent years and its role diminished due to the UCI Libraries Diversity Team. A representative from UCI is required on the statewide LAUC Committee on Diversity; it need not come from a member of the local committee. Manaka is currently serving in this capacity. This led to a discussion of the need for a mechanism in which to change the by-laws, possibly through a new standing committee on by-laws. MacLeod recommended that the charges of the standing committees be incorporated into the by-laws. This will be discussed further.

5. Job Shadow Day.

MacLeod will continue organizing