With apologies for the short notice … there is a limited timeline due to March 14 deadline for this discussion.

Plan to attend this Brown Bag Event on the Report from the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee, University of California (SLASIAC)

To be held this Wednesday, March 9, 2011, from 12 noon – 1:30 pm in the West Electronic Classroom (WEC), at the Young Research Library

Discuss the preliminary report of the SLASIAC on the future of UC and UCLA library services and collection development prior to the face-to-face meeting at the Office of the President in Oakland on March 16th !

Discussion Leaders for this Brown Bag are Lynda Tolly and Keri Botello.

Relevant information: On Wednesday, March 16, from 10am to 3pm, SLASIAC will be having a face-to-face meeting at the Office of the President in Oakland. The agenda is not finalized, but the majority of the time will be spent on the initial outcomes of SLASIAC’s Library Planning Task Force. An Interim Final Report will be sent out as background material prior to the meeting, but you can review the preliminary documents on the Task Force website at http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/planning/taskforce/ and below.

SLASIAC Library Planning Task Force

The SLASIAC Library Planning Task Force was convened by the Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Committee to recommend systemwide strategies and investments that the University needs to pursue with regard to library services in light of the numerous environmental changes indicated in the full charge.

Preliminary Results, 2/9/10

The following "Action Memoranda" (still in draft form) describe the recommendations of the Task Force:

1. Management of Existing Print Collections, v. 4a [PDF]
2. Managing Collection Growth, v. 6 [PDF]
3. Systemwide Library Services, v.4 [PDF]
4. Governance of the UC Library System, v.2 [PDF]
5. UC and the System of Scholarly Publishing, v.2 [PDF]
6. Revenue Enhancement and Cost Recovery, v.2 [PDF]

Additional key documents developed by the Task Force:

1. Budget Scenarios (Created to put all budgeting assumptions and projections in one place) v.1 [PDF]
2. Principles, v.4 [PDF]

Our LAUC representative to SLASIAC, Barbara Schader, needs feedback by March 14th so she has time to compile and process our comments prior to the March 16th meeting.

Can’t attend?? If you have comments to make or points you are concerned with, please take time today or tomorrow and e-mail our discussion leaders, Lynda Tolly and Keri Botello and ask them to address your issues for the Brown Bag.

We have two notetakers, Esther Grassian and Chamya Kincy (thank you, both!), to record the event. They can assemble a summary of the BB’s main points which can be made available to the LAUC-LA membership.

Bring your lunch and join in!

See you there!

Monica

Chair, LAUC-LA Committee on Programs, 2010-11