LAUC-I General Membership Meeting 
		8 September, 1997  
		1-3pm in SL 104

Present: Ariel, Broidy, Frank, Gottneid, Kjaer, Kugler, Leung, Love,
McAdam, Palmer, Shahid, Sisson, Tanji, Tseng, Wilson, Womack, Woo, Yang, 
Yu (19)

The agenda had been e-mailed on 2 Sept.

1 - Announcements & housekeeping matters 
        A. LAUC-I Archives: 
           Materials accumulated during 1992-date need organizing;
           earlier years' papers were organized for the writing of the
           LAUC history.  Dooley, Horn, and MacDonald have been asked
          Not all have responded yet.
        B. Librarian V review "no action" option:
           We agreed to add the "no action" option for Librarian Vs up for
           review.  In addition, we agreed that Librarians Vs should have
           the option of using the short form.
        C. Meeting schedule:
           Since the next membership meeting, scheduled for 10/13,
           coincides with the New Faculty Orientation, we decided to move
           it to the following Monday, 10/20, 1-3pm, ML 570.
        D. Meeting refreshments:
           A sign-up sheet was circulated, and the following volunteered:
                10/20 - ML 570 - Kugler
                11/10 - SL 104 - Yang
                12/8  - ML 570 - McAdam
                1/98 - no meeting
                2/9/98 - SL 104 - [need volunteer]
                3/9 - ML570 - Tseng
                4/13 - SL 104 - Womack
           5/11 - ML 570 - Ariel
                6/8 - SL 104 - [need volunteer]
                7/98 - no meeting
                8/10 - ML 570 - Sisson
        E. Locke Morrisey's vacancy on LRC (Locke's last day is 10/17/97)
           LAUC-I will need to hold a special election to fill the LRC
           vacancy when Locke leaves.  Angela Yang volunteered to chair
           the special election to fill the position whose term ends in
           2000. April Love volunteered to join the previous election
           committee (Yang, Gottneid, Bube).  At this point we lacked a
           quorum but voted.  E. Broidy called for the question; C.
           Kugler seconded it; the motion to hold a special election
           passed.  There will be a call for volunteers + candidate
           statement.
        F. UL search (update)
           A. Yang suggested that LAUC-I hold a forum where we can
           suggest questions for the search committee to include.  **This
           could go on the agenda for the next General Membership mtg., or
           we could have a special mtg. to do this.**  
Suggestions:
                - we invite Hillis Miller (search committee chair)
                to that meeting to meet us and talk with us. 
                - we have periodic progress reports from the
                library representatives on the search committee.  In
                particular, it would be nice to know at what point the
                committee stops looking at new applicants and begins
                studying/getting references for the strongest candidates. 
           For the last UL search, each on-campus interviewee met with the
           LAUC-I Exec. Bd. for 30 min., and there was a library-wide
           presentation from each candidate.  LAUC-I also compiled
           questions for the UL search.  ** This time, LAUC-I could ask
           for a separate meeting with each candidate; K. Kjaer
           will convey our request to the search committee, reminding them
           that the Libraries are the equivalent of an academic dept.**    
           **It was recommended that at each LAUC-I Gen. Member. meeting
           we set aside time for a UL search update from Kjaer, Dooley.
          It was also suggested that at each meeting we also have
           progress reports on all librarian searches in progress.**

2 - Library Science collection (Ariel)
        Joan distributed 2 sheets for our review:
        - Discussion notes on this topic from the last LAUC-I Membership
          Mtg. on 8/11/97
        - List of discussion questions for us to consider 
        Discussion:
        - There has been no increase in specific requests
        - To find out what our collection consists of, we could -- in
          ANTPAC -- run files of specific call no. areas and compile
          lists.
        - We should identify journals with URLs, so that information could
          be included in the catalog record; this might increase usage.
          There is a list of full-text journal URLs on UCOP's webpage, but
          Cynthia Clark may have a more complete list.  **We could put a
          full-text journal list on our homepage.**
       - Could journals on cataloging be shelved in SL?
        - If we keep all L.S. journals in the ML, could we have loan
          desk-to-loan desk DDS to facilitate use by SL librarians &
          staff?
        - At present we do not have a designateded bibliographer for the
          area of WWW development and WWW tools.  Perhaps a group (Ariel,
          Broidy, Gelfand, Womack) could decide on what to purchase from
          this burgeoning area of new publications.  
        - In the meantime, please continue to send your recommendations to
          J. Ariel.
        Michael Haggin's e-mail and L.S. collection development proposal:
        our responses
        - Many other areas of our collection are in greater need of
          attention and support.
        - The money offered in the original gift has gone elsewhere.
        - We could communicate to M. Haggin that we have other
  priorities for building our collection with development monies.
        - For potential donors who want to give money specifically to
          L.S., maybe we could politely and diplomatically redirect that
          gift. A gift of books, however, would be gratefully accepted.
        - J. Ariel will get back to M. Haggin with our ideas.

3 - LAUC (statewide) transition meeting (8/14) at UCOP (Oakland) - report
    from K. Kjaer

    A. The LAUC statewide Fall assembly will be on 11/21 at UC Davis.
       Theme: How to change the process of scholarly publishing
    B. The California Millenium Conference is scheduled for 3/99.  It is
       now being planned by a group of academic, public, and other
       library-interested people.  LAUC will have a representative on the
       planning committee.
    C. LAUC Cultural Diversity Committee - the members worked hard and had
       too much on their plate; unresolved issues remain.  
      1. "The Many Voices" report pointed out many things the UC
          libraries need to address.  The committee felt their too-large
          charge was to address these issues.  At the transition mtg. the
          committee felt bogged down by too much to do.  The Exec. Bd.
          will help them identify a few specific issues to concentrate on.
          The new chair, Esteban Valdez/UCSD,  will attend the Fall
          Assembly to discuss this and a more reasonable charge.
       2. Kriza Jennings told us that diversity is everyone's
          responsibility, not just that of a small group or committee.
          Has the committee met yet with the personnel librarians?  Many
          of the issues were personnel-related.  LAUC has a representative
          to the UC Libraries Human Resources group.  Carol Womack
          pointed out that Janice Burroughs has a grant and will send more
          information to Kathryn Kjaer.  
    D. Pat Dawson is the new LAUC representative to HOPS
    E. Administrative stipends for managers - Myron Okada talked about
       where we stand.
      1. There is no UCOP approval for the ULs' request for the
          libraries, but approval was given to academic departments. 
       2. Myron described 2 concerns the ULs gave him:  managers are now
          more accountable and are more vulnerable to grievances.  Also,
          they are more responsible for budgets.  
       3. Myron suggested that LAUC should discuss this with personnel
          librarians.  ** LAUC-I should invite Shirley Leung and Judy
          Kaufman to speak with us about this.**
       4. ULs at three campuses--LA, R, SB--very much want stipends.
       5. There is no extra money for stipends; amount of stipends will
          vary from campus to campus.
       6. Stipends are not part of the review process; no appropriate
          analogy to faculty.
       7. If LAUC as a whole is against stipends, then the ULs appear to
          have no accountability.  **We need to ask J. Kaufman to attend
          our next meeting or at least to the next mtg. of the Exec. Bd.**
       8. Stipends are currently in a holding pattern; UCOP referred this
   topic back to the ULs; a decision will be made on each campus,
          but the APM still says that all librarians at a given rank are
          paid the same.
    F. Additional steps in the Librarian range above V.
       1. This was referred to the ULs to figure out.  
       2. APM would need descriptions of the new steps.

[At this point, we were running out of time, so we skipped to Agenda item
#6]

4 - Professional Development Committee update (Wilson)
    A. We have 32 unit librarians (Locke is not counted).  Adding a
       temporary librarian makes this 33.  Dividing $10,200 by 33 gives
       each unit librarian a base of $309 for the 97/98 year.
    B. The Prof. Dev. Committee has met with Interim UL Shirley Leung to
       determine that LAUC-I has $30,000 over all this year
    C. This year funding will be calculated differently to avoid Tier I
       being so heavily funded and Tier II getting so little: 60% to Tier
     I; 40% to Tier II.
    D. Base funds can be used at any time.
    E. What about librarians who at midwinter ALA commit themselves to
       something for annual ALA that incurs extra expenditures (e.g.,
       arrival a day early for a preconference)? or puts him/her into a
       Tier I request situation?

The meeting adjourned at 3:10pm.  E. Broidy moved for adjournment;
C. Woo seconded it.
                                        
                                        - Christina Woo, LAUC-I Secretary