LAUC-I General Membership Meeting 
                10 November, 1997  
                1-3pm in SL 104

Present: Ariel, Broidy, Brown, Bube, Dooley, Gottneid, Kaufman, Kjaer,
Leung, Love, McAdam, Palmer, Sisson, Wilson, Woo (15)
 
1.  Approval of October minutes - Due to comings and goings, we did not
have a quorum at the two times when this agenda item came up.  Therefore,
this is deferred to our December meeting.
 
2.  Review of Professional Development funds (Wilson)
        A.  Base is $309/libn
        B.  Only one Tier I request is funded ($582); Tier II will be
        funded at $388.  ALL funding has been committed for the year; only
	$1 is left.
        C.  No tier switching will be considered until we are into May 98
        D.  There will not be a second call.
3.  Review of proposal to hire hourly librarians (Palmer, Kjaer)
        A.  UCI Libraries have never hired "hourly" librarians before;
        temporary librarians have had a different status.
        B.  Hourly libns will not go through our review process and will
        be expected to perform only criterion I work.
        C.  J. Kaufman noted that hourly libns may apply for professional
        development funds.  This makes it possible for hourly libns to
	apply for funding to attend ALA when we need them on the desk. The
	MOU does not spell out strict requirements for who gets prof. dev.
	funds nor for how much.  UCI has its own prof. dev. guidelines,
	which could be revised to exclude substitute librarians from being
	eligible for professional development funds.
        D.  UCSC has a "pool" concept of under-25% libns that we could
        use, although the current proposal is not pool-based.
        E.  What about the recruitments in progress?  Two temp. librarians
        are included in this year's budget (RGLL and Head of CD
        positions are not funded for this academic year).  The Prof.
        Dev. Committee can meet to refine the guidelines.
  	F.  How are the two years of service counted?  UCSC counts the       
        hours worked, not time served.
        G.  Whatever we come up with, the current proposal is a PILOT
        project.  It will be evaluated.
        H.  Discussion:  Could we employ any of our current LAs who have
        the MLS?  They could apply, but--if hired--they could not work
	their current full-time job plus the libn. job; they'd have to
	work something out with their supervisor.
        - Who reviews the hourly libns?  Their immediate supervisor.
        - Office of the Pres. can make exceptions to the APM but not to
        the MOU
        - Timetable?  We're hoping to hire someone to start on Dec. 15.
        Current finalists have not been told this is in the works.  For
	the future, they will be told these guidelines in advance.
        I.  K. Kjaer and C. Palmer (LRC chair) will draft a joint response
        to Pat Price, who is expecting our response.
        J.  E. Broidy moved that LAUC-I support the proposed project; J.
        Dooley seconded it.  Motion passed.
 
4.  Digital Library: Implications for LAUC and librarians (Leung)
        A.  S. Leung will send an e-mail describing Richard lucier's
        12/8 visit and schedule at UCI.  He was here a year ago, and at
	UCI there is a low awareness of the Digital Library.  John King
	will chair the statewide committee.
        B.  On 12/8, 10:30-11:45am - Lucier talks in McDonnell Douglas
        auditorium.  EVC Golub will introduce the talk; there will
        be Q-A time.  Lucier will have lunch with Deans, Chancellor's
	cabinet, Senate Exec. Comm. members.  After lunch he will meet with
        decision-makers on campus.
        C.  No discussion yet on how reference and collections will be
        impacted by the Digital Library.  We can have a discussion (later)
	on how the DL affects academic librarianship--this would be an
        opportunity for UC-wide librarians' input.  So far, Lucier has not
        solicited wide input.  Perhaps we could have a meeting with John
        King and invite others who attended Lucier's talk (if there
        is a sign-in sheet, we'll know who they are).  Something for the
  	Program Committee to organize?       
        D.  S. Leung and J. Paquette are thinking about holding a brown
        bag on ARL's concerns about the high price of scholarly journals,
	with current focus on Elsevier.
        E.  K. Kjaer will send out an e-mail to solicit, collect, and
        refine questions for Lucier (to be raised during the Q-A time
	after his talk on 12/8).  They will be finalized at the next
	LAUC-I Exec. Bd. mtg. on 12/1.
 
5.  Ad hoc Committee on the LAUC-I Handbook (Kjaer)
        A.  K. Kjaer distributed a descriptive handout.
        B.  C. Womack has volunteered to be on this small team; a call for
        volunteers to work with her has been e-mailed to LAUC-I.
        C.  J. Kaufman recommends that the team consult with her to
        minimize/eliminate confusion over the status of documents.
	Academi Personnel does not necessarily consider all of our documents 
	to  official/valid.  There is a separate effort going on by Academic       
        Librarianship, LRC, and Acad. Pers. to determine what the
        "ruling" documents are.  We need to coordinate with all of them.
 
6.  Updates on the LAUC-I roster and committee charges (Kjaer)
        A.  Roster is up to date and is on the webpage
        B.  A belated welcome to Laura Brown, the temporary Manuscripts
        Librarian working in Spec. Coll.
        C.  Honors Program Council does not feel it needs a libn rep. and
        does not recognize one, although LAUC-I has named one (J. Dooley)
        to that group.  What should we do?  We decided to check the web to
        see what HPC's charge is.  This could be part of a LAUC-I
        discussion on library representation on the Fac. Senate
	committees:
        how do our roles vary--the continuum from full-fledged to
	advisory?
        D.  The Fac. Senate is undergoing a restructuring; Robert May is
        head of the restructuring effort.
        E.  The Ad hoc Archives committee (J. Horn, chair, J. Dooley, E.
	MacDonald) - K. Kjaer reviewed the charge, which she had e-mailed
	today.
 
7.  UL search - no news.  The search committee is meeting this week.
 
8.  Meeting adjourned.