Executive Committee Minutes 09/11/2024

LAUCB Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 
10am-11:30am
Zoom

Minutes

Present 

  • ExComm:  Christina Fidler, José Adrián Barragan-Alverez, Becky Miller,  Jessica Tai, Charlotte Daugherty, Misha Coleman, Jen Brown,   Kristie Chamorro 
    Guests: Kate Peck, Tim Vollmer, Keri Klein, I-Wei Wang, Sam Teplitzky

Announcements

  • Introduction to LAUC-B and Individual Introductions (José Adrián)
    • LAUC-B Executive Committee (2024-2025):
      • Chair - Christina Velazquez Fidler
      • Vice Chair / Chair Elect - Salwa Ismail
      • Secretary - Becky Miller
      • Treasurer - Jackie Gosselar
      • Library Rep - Nadia Winters
      • Library Rep - Jessica Tai
      • Affiliated Library Rep - Charlotte Daugherty
         
  • Thanks to outgoing members
  • Jenny Nelson is the new LAUC statewide President
  • Check-ins

Reports - including last reports from 2023/2024

  • Treasurer’s Report (Jackie submitted report after meeting)
    • Jackie and jeannine miles from LBS will be working on a Cal Answers Finance training session for the LAUC members to empower them to learn to query the new CF2 value for professional development
    • LAUC-B does reimburse mentor lunches that happen outside of the Women's Faculty Club. The location of the lunch does not matter; the main concern is that we have 20 budgeted for the year
    • Via email, Jackie provided the recent General Ledger Summaries for June 2024 (FY23-24) as well as July and August 2024 (FY24-25).
  • LEIC 
    • Jackie won’t be doing LEIC reports going forward, the new LEIC Rep will be Gisèle Tanasse
  • Affiliated Libraries 
    • Kristie can fill in Cyrana’s role with help from others
  • LIBR Meeting 
  • Meeting with the UL (José Adrián)
    • Met in July and August - Focus was introducing Suzanne to LAUC and what we do; Suzanne is especially curious about morale issues and wants to keep conversation going about that; idea of symposium came up; it would be good to start planning the fall assembly
  • LAUC Statewide (José Adrián)
    • Met in August and early September
    • Danielle created good intro to LAUC that will be shared soon
    • How to get back ups when people can’t be there - this came up with LAUC-B NEC, Kate helped out; don’t want to step on toes, but want to keep things moving
    • Task Force on Academic Status - doing wide search into how different exceptions are granted, like PI status; Michelle Potter from UCR will be new chair
    • RPD committee awarded more than $30K in research grants to LAUC members

Continuing Business

  • None brought forth

New Business

  • Intros
  • LAUC-B Conference (Christina)
    • Last conference - Fall 2021 (virtual), theme: Reimagining Libraries Through Critical Practices; other conferences were traditionally in person
    • Planning the conference is a 2-year process
    • Feedback positive; interest from other UCs (some funding came from LAUC in the past)
    • We have skipped recent years due to the sense that we lack capacity
    • Should we try again? Put out call for volunteers for the conference committee and chair roles? In-person may be too expensive, but perhaps we can afford an online conference
    • Having a social event in-person associated with anything online would be good
    • Impression is that people want this, but it may be hard to find people able to commit to working on it
    • With campus discussion of APM 360, might be helpful to have venue to showcase research that librarians have already done / are doing
    • Do we need theme first? Maybe ‘librarian scholarship’ is enough of a theme?
    • ExComm voted to at least put out the call and see if there is interest
  • Distinguished Librarian Award Committee (José Adrián)
    • Seeking committee members. Involves ~5 meetings, reviewing 3-5 packets, plus planning the celebration
    • Because of late start, will likely be early spring instead of late fall this time
    • Last time there were 4 members plus faculty
    • Will put out call to rest of LAUC-B
    • It could help to have brief drop-in Zoom session over lunch for people to learn more about the award - how to nominate, what the committee does
  • Affiliated Affairs Chair (Christina)
    • VC/Chair Elect is supposed to serve on Committee of Affiliated Libraries Affairs (CALA)  - is this still a thing? CALA exists more as concept - consists of 3 people - affiliated rep on Excomm, plus person elected to this role, plus ex officio LAUC-B VC/Chair Elect; Kristie to send info to Christina that will hopefully straighten this out
  • Move LAUC-B meeting time (Christina) 
    • M,T,TH,F? (Wednesday 9-10:30)
    • Current time doesn’t work for Salwa, but she will be leaving ExComm and UCB
    • Christina will reach out to Salwa, and to Nominating and Elections, and to the LAUC Parliamentarian regarding filling Salwa’s role on ExComm after she leaves
  • Statewide Transition Meeting (Christina) 
    • update to APM 360 - CoUL worked with LAUC last time on 360, but this time CoUL was bypassed; resistance to putting it on statewide agenda; impacts all librarians, not just represented; university has issue with saying that librarians do instruction and research; university not engaging with us on language; more discussion
  • 2024-2025 CAPA nominees (Sam)
    • Academic Review Workshop - Monday, October 21 from 10-11:30am
    • RI Workshop - Thursday, October 24 from 11am-12pm
    • It can be a struggle to find people to serve on CAPA who can make the time and meet the requirements (career status; past participation in ad hoc reviews); is the usual NEC recruiting form effective in recruiting new members?
    • Sam and Jenny Nelson are rolling off CAPA, so there are 2 slots to fill (one affiliated) 
    • The Executive Committee elected the new CAPA members: Jeremy Ott and Sine Hwang Jensen (Affiliated Library Representative)

We adjourned at 11:36am