Executive Committee Minutes 06/12/2024

LAUC-B Executive Committee Meeting Minutes.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 10am-1130am.
Zoom.

Minutes

Present Ex Comm: José Adrián, Jesse, Michael, Misha, Kristie, Jackie, Jen, Cyrana.
Guests: None.

Announcements

Check-ins
 

Reports
 

Treasurer’s Report (Jackie)

  • Additional reports added to FY folder. 
  • Adding a staff member to candidate lunches will add expenses for the additional person. If this is to occur ongoing, we would need to propose it in the budget, considering the number of such lunches per year.
    • There is no current policy on this. No known requests for staff at these lunches in past; there have been just a couple of one time requests.
    • What do we consider the purpose of these lunches? How would we recruit staff members going forward, if indeed we were to open them up to staff?
    • José Adrián will discuss with Christina, with the idea of bringing it up early next ExComm term.
  • Please keep in mind that our treasurer needs plenty of advance notice for chartstrings, reimbursement requests, etc.


LEIC (Jackie)

  • Discussion included turnover for new FY and recruitment for conveners and for subcommittees.
  • LEIC established a budget subcommittee to manage the funds available. 
  • Reviewing recommendation of original Task Force to make sure LEIC is staying true to the original ideas there. Idea of regularly reviewing these.


Affiliated Libraries (Kristie)

  • Working on clarifying relationship between CALA and TALAG; more forthcoming.


LIBR Meeting (José Adrián, for Christina)

  • No meeting in June.


Meeting with the UL (José Adrián)

  • For future meetings with new UL: good idea to have an agenda, include acronyms, background info, etc. 
    Some info on meeting ideas in letter being drafted for new UL.


LAUC Statewide (José Adrián)

  • Missed this week’s meeting, but Statewide still seeking candidate for Vice Chair/Chair/Past, so election on hold.
  • Perhaps more detailed write up of duties by year would help folks understand the time commitment, but committees everywhere having recruiting issues.
  • MS can check bylaws for details on if we really need to wait for statewide. 
  • It was mentioned that LAUC-B holds elections earlier than most divisions.


Continuing Business

  • Draft letter to incoming UL, Suzanne Wones
    • Please continue to comment on the draft, which was sent by José Adrián to ExComm on June 6.

New Business

  • Establishing a committee for the Distinguished Librarian Award
    • José Adrián to chair, with a faculty member and a couple of LAUCB members.
    • We can let him know of a faculty member if we have an idea for this.
    • ExComm members are welcome to self-nominate. A call will be sent out as well.
  • Summer schedule for on-campus interviews
    • Because of Misha’s planned time off, José Adrián will be taking over some of her duties around candidate lunches.
  • Thanks
    • José Adrián expressed thanks for all our work during the year; gratitude was expressed to and by all.
  • Addendum:
    • The LAUC-B New(ish) Librarians event on 05/09/2024 featured Kris Kasianovitz, Osman Celik and Ruth Haber.  There were 55 folks in attendance (via zoom).  Slides for two of the presenters are here: Ruth’s slides | Kris’ slides. The Happy Hour at Free House was also a success, with about 25-30 attendees.