Present: L.Foster (recorder), L.Leighton, T.Leonard (chair), A.Ritch,
I.Stirling, K.Wayne
Absent: C.Faulhaber, B.Glendenning, B.Hurley, P.Iannuzzi, M.Rancer,
N.Robinson, P.Zhou
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tom Leonard has been approached by Campus Development with a proposal to
build a permanent display commemorating major donors to The Library. The
structure, envisioned as a wall of names, would be located inside the North
Entrance to the Doe Library, and would be paid for by the Berkeley Foundation.
The Doe Annex Surge Planning Task Force met for the first time. They plan a
complete tour of the Doe Annex in August.
The Backlog Task Force for the Bancroft, Technical Services and East Asian
Library will meet on July 20. Their report may go to the Senate Library
Committee.
The second call for job stress/satisfaction (Maslach) survey volunteers was
issued from the office of the University Librarian on July 19. The deadline
is August 1.
A G E N D A
1. MELVYL Reload discussion was postponed.
2. Stanford Visit (T. Leonard, I. Stirling, A. Ritch)
The UL and AULs visited the Stanford Library on July 17. They received
packets containing several Stanford Library publications. Stanford showed
an interest in developing cooperative collections of prints, especially
from the Middle Ages, the Near and Far East, South and Southeast Asia.
Peter Zhou will visit Stanford soon, and assess their Asian holdings.
Kathryn Wayne stated that the Stanford Art Library currently lends their
non-circulating collection of books to PhD students enrolled in the History
of Art Department. Alan Ritch will poll selectors to discover any
existing, informal cooperative arrangements with Stanford, and will check
Library files to discover cooperative arrangements made in the past.
Stanford has mounted a database of classical Chinese texts from Taiwan, and
UC belongs to some Pacific Rim cooperative associations with which Stanford
is not affiliated. UC and Stanford may cooperate on these texts, and on
digitizing back sets. In the future, we may also cooperate in Data
Services, and mount joint exhibits where applicable (with, perhaps, a
virtual link).
Stanford's interest extended to CDL and to our preservation effort.
Stanford's approach to reference assistance is entirely different from
UC's. Their emphasis is on accessible subject specialists, rather than on
general reference librarians.
Stanford wants the UC Library to help in the CSLA campaign to repeal the
California use tax as applied to libraries.
The Stanford librarians will visit here in late September.
3. Drinks in the Library (I. Stirling)
Cabinet agreed that any proposed policy change regarding drinks in the
Library will affect so many units that it should properly be referred to
Roundtable. It will be placed on the next Roundtable agenda.
4. Library Home Page (I. Stirling)
Isabel Stirling stated that the staff web page and administrative documents
links are prominently placed on the Library's home page. She suggests they
should be less prominent, or removed from the public page altogether.
Cabinet decided to ask Lisa Weber to combine both links into a single,
less-prominent line. She will provide an example of the revision to Cabinet
for review and further comment.
[Meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.]