Present: J.Lowell (chair), J.Dost, C.Faulhaber, K.Frohmberg, J.Han,
B.Hurley, B.Kornstein, B.Krell (recorder), L.Leighton, E.Meltzer, R.Moon,
B.Morgan, J.Spohrer, F.Yasaki.
Absent: L.Braunschweiger, M.Rancer.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
--Carol Christ has decided to resign her position as Executive Vice
Chancellor and Provost effective June 30, 2000. She will return to
research and teaching at Berkeley.
--UCSD has allocated $110,000 for the Portal Project, which will replace
the current set of UCSD Library public web sites with a M-^SportalM-^T site. The
portal will be designed to meet user needs rather than reflecting the
existing physical or organizational divisions within the UCSD Library.
--LHRD is currently recruiting for 20 staff positions and 7 academic
positions (in addition to the 7 new librarian positions).
A G E N D A
1. Library System Office Priorities --R.Moon
Stanford-Berkeley Request has priority for implementation as early as
possible in the fall semester. The analysis of Pathfinder II new
functionalities indicates that two -- item-level information and NRLF
paging -- could potentially be developed prior to the fall semester, but
their development would delay implementation of Stanford-Berkeley Request.
Cabinet recommended that Pathfinder enhancements be postponed in favor of
Stanford-Berkeley Request.
2. Top 7 Librarian Positions --J. Lowell
Cabinet continued its discussion from July 1, to select the seven most
critical librarian positions to be filled this year, pending approval of
the LibraryM-^Rs budget request. At last weekM-^Rs meeting the following four
positions were selected: Circulation Head for Doe-Moffitt; Engineering
Librarian ; two Reference Librarians.
Cabinet selected the Social Sciences Data Services Librarian as a fifth
most critical position. The College of Environmental Design Archivist is to
be funded equally by the Library and CED, therefore, the .5 FTE portion to
be funded by the Library will be on hold pending funding approval by CED
for their half. The remainder of the positions were discussed and several
were set aside for further review. Cabinet members will prepare briefing
papers for discussion on these positions as follows: Environmental Design
Librarian (.5 FTE) J. Spohrer; Engineering Librarian K.Frohmberg;
Metadata & Electronic Text Librarians C.Faulhaber, B.Hurley, L.Leighton,
and R.Moon. These briefing papers will be discussed at an upcoming meeting
of Cabinet.
Other positions on the critical list will be on hold for the second round
selection process after the arrival of the new AULs.
3. Storing Materials at NRLF --L.Leighton, B.Hurley
B.Hurley announced at the Roundtable meeting on April 22, that the NRLF
Phase 2 facility is expected to be filled by July 2001. Phase 3, formerly
scheduled for July 2002, will be delayed at least until November 2003.
This delay has been caused by a redirection of the projectM-^Rs construction
funding to Berkeley to help fund seismic upgrade projects. In return, the
Berkeley campus has agreed to reduce its storage rate to allow other UC
campus libraries to continue storage at near their normal rates. S.Miller
reviewed historic Berkeley library storage patterns at NRLF and W.Kim
analyzed the space in the stacks to determine the feasibility of letting
the Doe stacks fill up to bridge the gap. Cabinet agreed generally to fill
the Doe stacks at a faster rate than normal and elect a sub-group to draft
the policy and determine if further problems exist that need to be reviewed
by Cabinet.
4. Budgeting for Permanent Salaries
(Defer to next meeting.)
5. GA Budget-Higher Student Wage Rates
(Defer to next meeting.)