Guest: K.Starkweather.
Absent: A.Barone, B.Hurley, L.Leighton, I.Stirling.
A G E N D A
1. Announcements
2. Pay Rates for Graduate Students
M I N U T E S
1. Announcements
Tom Leonard circulated a summary of public affairs for June 9-15, in which
Bancroft Library, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology and Dwinelle Hall's
language labs were featured as hosting a summer workshop on lost
languages. One workshop participant "wept after discovering in the library
a book from the 1700s written in both Coahuilteco and Spanish" and stated
that "no one anywhere had been as helpful and as kind as the public service
staff at the Bancroft" when one Bancroft staffer took digital photos and
printed 80 pages from the fragile book for her.
On June 7, Tom Leonard attended a meeting at Columbia University regarding
ARL's Global Resources Program for the enrichment of collections in key
areas. The UC Berkeley Library will have a prominent role in building
areas studies and including matching funds for the program.
Campus announced a new program to help fund staff career
development. Non-academic career employees should look for more details on
this program, including selecting training opportunities and applying for
funding, later this summer. Pat Lavelle, manager of campus Employee
Development and Training, is expected to make a presentation to the Library
in August.
When he attends the June ALA conference in Atlanta, Tom Leonard will talk
with several librarians who have inquired about Berkeley's position for AUL
Collections, vacant since Alan Ritch's retirement in March. The AUL
Collections Screening Committee is meeting regularly and has begun
reviewing job applications received to-date. Deadline for applications is
July 1.
2. Pay Rates for Graduate Students --C.Faulhaber, K.Starkweather
The issue of pay rates for graduate students has come up again. Charles
Faulhaber reminded Cabinet of last year's discussion when Cabinet expressed
needing the flexibility to pay comparable rates in order to get the
necessary expertise and skills. Below are the Cabinet Minutes from March
29, 2001, which state:
Kay Starkweather reported that consensus exists in the Library to hire
graduate students using the regular processes and provisions for hiring
staff. LHRD recommends using the ____ Assistant series with working titles
that reference specific expertise; and paying salaries commensurate with
Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) levels, instead of hiring GSRs with
mandatory fee remission requirements. Another available option would be
for the academic department to hire staff with the necessary expertise and
the Library could reimburse the departmental costs.
Cabinet approved the recommendations to use the ____ Assistant series with
working titles such as "curatorial assistant" for graduate assistant staff
performing specialized research work. The Library will pay competitive
salary levels to obtain the needed expertise, or reimburse academic
departments for work done by GSRs.
Cabinet decided to adhere to the library policy adopted last year and hire
only in the _____Assistant or Library Assistant series. If an academic
department insists upon using the title of Graduate Student Researcher
(GSR), the academic department must do the hiring.
Meeting adjourned at 2:05 p.m.