Though all the Divisions including ours had various discussions on the details of the University proposal, we realized that our chance for input to the proposal was past. This website is being used as a model at several other campuses. This discussion was so useful that the Executive Board decided it should become an annual event. We had dedicated most of a regular meeting to the discussion, but it could also be made a special program in the future. The new date is in March 2001.
Work is ongoing and a new committee specifically dedicated to fundraising was constituted.
In February, the Programs Committee brought Steve Watkins from the Cal State Monterey Bay library for an exciting and enlightening look behind the scenes at the university library without a building. In March, following a similar discussion at systemwide LAUC Executive Board, we discussed the viability of our standing committees. Although the Executive Board felt that the changing charges of the Committees on Professional Governance and on Library Plans and Policies could be carried out more efficiently by appointing ad hoc committees, the membership later defended the current standing committee structure but agreed that some could possibly spend a year without charges if no issues were appropriate to that committee. In June the Executive Board came up with a website policy, based on the website policy written by Lee Jaffe for the LAUC systemwide website. This will be presented to the membership for approval at this meeting.