Minutes
LAUC-I General Membership Meeting
Monday, 10 January 2000

1. Approval of Dec. 13 minutes.

• Motion to accept draft minutes: Urrizola. Seconded: McAdam. Motion passed.

• Introduction of new LAUC-I members:
  • Vicki Grahame was introduced by Tim McAdam.
  • Michael Martinez was introduced by Steve MacLeod.
• Wilson announced the following:
  • Diane Bisom has been appointed to serve out the remaining 2.5 years of J. Paquette's term as LAUC-I representative to the UCI Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing, and Library Resources.
  • Diane Bisom has been appointed by the AdTeam to fill the vacancy created by C. Clark's impending departure as UCI's representative on CDL's MELVYL RFP group.

• Bisom gave a summary of progress thus far by the CDL group working on the MELVYL RFP requirements. She reinforced that her appointment as UCI's representative to this group is new and that she has not yet had the chance to participate in a meeting.
• She reiterated the UCI team--announced in an e-mail message to lib_all last week--that will assist her in the process, which includes D. Bisom, S. MacLeod, J. Crooks, M. Urrizola, and K. Kjaer.
• She also referred to the 2 URLs that she sent out in the same e-mail message as the best resource for those interested in the current state of the MELVYL RFP process. URLs are:
  • Local UCI site: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~staff/cdlrfp_info.htm
  • CDL site: http://www.cdlib.org/libstaff/technology/projects/unioncat/ [outdated link, LV 3/05]
• Main focus of RFP group right now is a survey of current MELVYL users on all UC campuses. Survey form is posted on CDL web site (URL is http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/2734/cdlhosted.htm) [outdated link, LV 3/05].
• Question asked about the timeline for the RFP? Bisom reported that the current plan calls for a February-April 2000 time frame for editing of the RFP, with a final draft for comments at end of April. The draft will then be turned over to CDL UL Lucier and his staff for final editing and release to vendors. Process is designed to move fairly quickly.
• Question raised regarding the timeline for the Web survey? Bisom reported that responses are due at the end of January. The point was made that CDL needs to be cognizant of faculty workloads at the beginning of the quarter, especially if faculty input is desired. The point was also made that UCI bibliographers should work to inform faculty about the survey and encourage their responses.
• Question raised regarding the selection criteria for local team? No obvious instructional services representative on team. Bisom stressed that the primary function of local advisory group is to solicit input in survey, especially from faculty; perhaps it isn't necessary to have someone from instructional services directly involved with the team. She also noted that the survey is pretty basic and she is unsure who authored it, noting that from a UCI perspective we may want to build on or add to the survey for our local purposes.
• Wilson noted that this issue will be on the February LAUC-I agenda for another update from Bisom.

5. Proposed transition plan for new Librarian salary scales (Kaufman).

Informal notes taken by the LAUC-I Secretary during the discussion of items 4 and 5 are available for informational purposes but are not part of the official minutes of this LAUC-I meeting. Remarks of UL Munoff were tape recorded so that LAUC-I members who could not attend this meeting could hear his comments. After all interested LAUC-I members have borrowed it, the tapes will be recorded over.