LAUC-R

LAUC-R Meeting Minutes 5/9/2007

LAUC-R Membership Meeting

May 9, 2006 Minutes

Science Library, Room 240 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Members Present: Diane Bisom, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Marie Bronoel, Kuei Chiu, Ann Frenkel, Ken Furuta, Margaret Hogarth, Heidi Hutchinson, Sylvia Hu, Rhonda Neugebauer, Lynne Reasoner, David Rios, Sharon Scott, Ying Shen, Gayatri Singh, Emily Stambaugh

Minutes:

Meeting called to order 2:05 p.m.

Agenda. Accepted as amended.

LAUC-R does not have to have a motion to close nominations.

Add update on election ballot and opportunity for nominations.

Add introduction to new librarians.

Introduce and welcome new LAUC-R member: Ann Frenkel

Discuss election ballots

LAUC System-wide Ballot:

Vice President/President Elect: Bob Heyer-Gray, LAUC-D

Secretary: John Sisson, LAUC-I

Bios will be sent out with the ballots.

CACLS ballot

Ken Furuta

Lizbeth Langston

Lynne Reasoner

Debbi Renfrow

Geetha Yapa

Reminder: the LAUC election uses the Australian system: choices should be numbered. There will be an example attached to the ballots.

LAUC-R

Chair: Patricia Hartis

Secretary: Margaret Hogarth

Delegate: Heidi Hutchinson

Election Calendar

Systemwide ballots are due June 7, 2006. A minimum of 2 weeks is required per system bylaws. Ballots will be distributed Wednesday, May 24, 2006.

There were no nominations from the floor.

LAUC-R members who miss the meeting are encouraged to send nominations to Melissa. Ken will send an reminder email with a May 17, 2006 deadline.

Bibliographic Services Task Force Report (BSTF) Update

Diane Bisom is now the UCR representative to SOPAG

BSTF is on SOPAG's agenda

Discussion centered on analysis of feedback.

HOPS, HOTS, LAUC, 6 all-campus groups, and all 10 campuses responded.

Terry Ryan, UCLA, pooled the comments. The report will appear soon on the SOPAG web site.

General themes:

All parties are favorable to discussing the topic.

Some questions in the report could have been phrased better.

What does re-architect mean?

Some wording was wide open for interpretation.

ULs and SOPAG continue the discussion: what are the priorities and processes for the next steps? LAUC-R is encouraged to provide feedback on this.

Preparation for the UL September meeting is important.

This is an enormous and exciting topic with many implications for the UCs. We will be discussing it for a long time. Don't get caught on how big the topic is. The process is encouraging. SOPAG members are open to the discussion and took it seriously. There were many comments from UCR. Generally, there was a broad endorsement of metadata, a single catalog interface, coordinated cataloging practices, and a single ILS. 1-2 cataloging centers and stopping subject authority control were highly unpopular. This is to be user driven, and will involve users and user studies. There is the recognition that it will take SOPAG, the ULs and all constituents to discuss and implement change. It can't be driven by any one campus or by CDL, but must be equally distributed over all campuses. The discussion was very clear on that.

Who will make the decision on the ILS? CDL and the ULs. This will be very far off.

There were many comments on technical services and cataloging issues. There was surprise that the suggestion for 1-2 cataloging centers was interpreted as physical locations. Some wording was insensitive; the authors weren't thinking about how certain segments would take the report.

There will be much more discussion with comment periods.

Spring Tea

The Spring Tea will take place the week of June 5, 2006, probably Tuesday, June 6, 2006, and will welcome new librarians in the Lang Garden by Rivera.

Supplemental travel funding

It is anticipated that many will attend ALA. Please submit expenses ASAP so LAUC-R can have a better sense of the budget.

Action item: Ken will send a reminder.

LAUC Spring Assembly:

June 1-2, 2006, UCLA.

Program: Catherine Candee, head of the eScholarship program at CDL, will start a discussion of institutional repositories and what they mean for libraries. Space is limited for the assembly, but is open for the program.