Present: Ariel, Bisom, Davis-Kahl, Goldberg, Heiman (recorder), Jazayeri, Kiehl, Landis, Lessick, MacLeod (chair), Palmer, Renton, Riggs, Urrizola
Guests: Susan Jarratt, Nancy Nguy

Steve MacLeod opened the meeting by welcoming new LAUC-I member Stephanie Davis-Kahl. Joan Ariel introduced Nancy Nguy, her intern who will be attending library school at Catholic University in the fall.

Discussion with Susan Jarratt, Campus Writing Coordinator and Professor, Dept. of English & Comparative Literature. Steve introduced Susan Jarratt, the new UCI Campus Writing Coordinator. As part of LAUC-I's efforts this year to draw attention to Information Literacy issues, Cathy Palmer invited her to meet with LAUC-I to give an overview of her activities and the responsibilities of the position. Professor Jarratt distributed the draft brochure Campus Writing Coordinator. Some highlights of her remarks and discussion follow.

--Chief goals of the CWC: Assist faculty with writing instruction, particularly in upper division W courses required of each student. Promote writing assignments in other disciplinary courses.
--Some kinds of services: One-on-one consultation about writing assignments or other writing issues. Extended consultation between instructors and a Graduate Writing Consultant. Workshops on a wide range of writing issues. Small grants to improve writing instruction.
--An early success occurred with the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese. It was found that undergraduate majors in the Dept. were not eligible for acceptance in the graduate program based on their course of study at UCI. Also, students had not been required to write a critical literary essay in Spanish in their undergraduate courses. The CWC worked with Jill Robbins, an associate professor in the Dept., Dawn Anderson, and Cathy on this. She evaluated the curriculum and then recommended where writing could occur. In presenting her observations to the faculty, she got them to recognize problems and come up with solutions. In fall 2002 a change in curriculum will be implemented.
--The CRW is undertaking a research project in bilingual writing. This began in the fall with a questionnaire of first year students in the Humanities Core Course on their home language and literacy practices. A long-term goal is a longitudinal study of writing at UCI.
--Many universities have writing centers with excellent Web sites, e.g. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia Tech. UCI has the CWC in place of a writing center. The CWC hopes to have a good Web Site developed with links to Web sites of other campuses.

--The library role in assisting faculty on plagiarism issues was discussed as a possible workshop. Faculty say students use the Internet too often for cutting and pasting without consideration of the issues involved. Subject librarians need to communicate with faculty on how they are training students in the use of Internet resources. It would be useful to trace the methodology of how students get their resources.

Discussion of the "Report of the SOPAG Privacy Task Force". SOPAG, the Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group of the University of California Library System, recently released for review their report on privacy issues. Susan Lessick, the UCI member of SOPAG, led discussion on the report. She has also scheduled a library-wide brown bag on April 25. Some highlights:

--The charge of the Task force was "to develop a model policy on privacy for library-provided digital services and to recommend practices to enable the policy". The report is on policy for the public and not library staff.
--Policy statements on privacy on library Web sites are few. The Task Force developed the report as well as a Web site of resources with links to ALA and UC policies [http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/privacytf/]. The Web site includes legislation, sample statements, as well as a list of elements needed in policy statements. It also includes a "Privacy Audit Checklist" to use in making an assessment of privacy risks in library systems and determining what measures are necessary to minimize those risks.
--The UCI proxy server is run by NACS, not the library, so they need to be consulted on library policy.
--Libraries have not educated users on when they go out from UCI sites to commercial sites where their privacy rights will be under different rules. What guidance do we give users about protecting their own privacy?
--What information does the University make available regarding library patrons if asked by the government? ANTPAC doesn't maintain links other than statistically. We do not keep track of who has checked out what. Keeping records for the briefest time possible makes providing the records unfeasible.
--The concept of circulation and borrowing is different in a virtual library world.
--UC computer use security policy is in direct opposition to privacy use policies. The challenge is to develop privacy policy in the context of security. Each UC campus has its own policy; UCI's Computer Use Policy is on the Systems Web page.
--The report recommends using the MELVYL-T Catalog as standard on guidelines test case.
--The recommendation introduced by Karen Coyle that each UC campus library designate a Privacy Officer to oversee its privacy policies has not yet been discussed by SOPAG. Colby cited an article by Coyle on "Protecting Privacy" published in Library Journal's NetConnect, Winter 2001 [http://www.kcoyle.net/privacy_lj.html].

The meeting adjourned.