Present: Phyllis Bischof, Nensi Brailo, Michaelyn Burnette, Elizabeth
Byrne, Jan Carter (recorder), John Ceballos, Gary Handman, Phoebe Janes,
Steve Mendoza, AnnMarie Mitchell, Laura Prichard, John Roberts (chair),
Allan Urbanic, Kathryn Wayne
Guests: Katherine Mitchell, Isabel Stirling
1. Next meeting: August 17. Recorder Gary Handman. Primary agenda
topic: council structure review.
2. Announcements:
John Roberts announced that Laura Prichard has been appointed Assistant
Head of the Music Library.
Allan Urbanic announced that interviews for the Judaica position will take
place August 3.
3. In the interest of saving time for discussion, function council reports
were not given.
4. Discussion with Katherine Mitchell regarding the council structure.
Katherine Mitchell led us through an exercise to help with our review of
the council structure. She asked us to enumerate what was working well in
the Arts and Humanities Council and what needed to be improved or
clarified. Those items on the "needs improvement" list were further
designated as those which could be handled internally by the group and
those which needed discussion outside of the group. Ms. Mitchell will
prepare a summary of the discussion to be distributed to council members.
5. Discussion with Isabel Stirling regarding public services
Best Practices Workshop - where do we go from here? There was discussion
of whether and how to repeat the workshop here, either for a UCB audience
or for a broader northern California group. P. Bischof reported that the
Social Sciences Council has suggested a joint meeting to follow-up on the
Best Practices Workshop and to discuss ideas presented at the workshop
among staff here. It was suggested that one format for such a meeting would
be in the context of a workshop which could begin by having Patty Iannuzzi
offer her keynote presentation, followed by brief talks by others who
attended the workshop summarizing the most valuable ideas gleaned from the
day, with general discussion to follow. A workshop would mean a longer
session than the usual one-and-a-half hours the SSC and AHC normally meet
-- perhaps three hours or so. Whether to include non-UCB staff from other
nearby institutions was discussed briefly, but not resolved.
Isabel encouraged us to put forward requests for technology products in
public service areas. Mentioned were the need for color copiers, scanners,
digital cameras, plugs for laptops, and technical support for public access
computing.
6. Future meetings: Because of the Aug. 31 deadline for submitting
comments regarding the review of the council structure, the group decided
to devote its Aug. 17th meeting to the topic. John Roberts will confer
with Milt Ternberg to see if the two councils can then meet on August 23,
8:30-10am to discuss this topic together in lieu of the Best Practices
discussion currently proposed.