2020-10-22 UCAC Agenda & Notes

UCB (Kathi)

• Expect to work from home until June 30, via campuswide policy
• Special research appointments in Bancroft have started, Wednesday to Friday; going well; UCB affiliates only
• Records Management Liaison Committee launched; sub-group of Information Risk Governance Committee. Lara Michels and Kathi are members.

UCD (Kevin)

• Holding off on the recruitment for the university archivist position
• Are planning for a food and wine special collections librarian position
• Have learned that another staff member is retiring
• The reading room is open by appointment, Tuesday through Friday in the afternoons; Shields Library is now open and might be the first undergraduate library in the UC system to reopen.
• The California Aggie student newspaper was digitized last year and added to the California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC Riverside); the same will be done with The Third World Forum (The Third World News), an alternative newspaper, with funds provided by alumni
• Working with the campus radio station, discussing preserving its tape-based collection

UCI (Elvia)

• Focusing on digitization on demand for access while the reading room is closed
• Amplify Womxn project (focus on Black Lives Matter and ally communities)
• Working on more born-digital transfers
• Attended BitCurator meeting
• Mario Molina (Nobel Prize) recently passed away; question for Marlayna

UCLA (Heather)

• Still closed; maybe March reopening
• Working on Return to Work request regarding campus-density impact: four people in pairs, focusing on PIBWIB (put it back where it belongs)
• Circulating collections have scanning, book mailing, and curbside services, but Special Collections has no services at this time
• SRLF willing to deliver/pick up one day a week
• Staffing challenges: recruitment slow-down; rare books cataloger has left; and, as the result of another retirement, Heather is now Interim Curator for Performing Arts

UC Merced (Jerrold)

• Some work happening with digitization and remote instruction; library unlikely to open any time soon
• Archives at Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park sent their archives to UCM in an emergency response to the fires
• Working campus records manager to develop formal transfer process/implement records retention schedules
• Reaching out to recently retired faculty members (founding faculty)

UCR (Andrea)

• No reopening date in sight; one employee onsite for scanning
• Focusing on event planning with colleagues: had two virtual events (open house for Special Collections and history of face masks); next event is about slash fiction
• Teaching, including working with faculty, focused on history of the black studies program
• ePADD work continues; first processed collection by the end of fall quarter is the goal
• Archiving social media–formed committee; will start testing soon
• Digitizing student newspaper; preparing to send print source to BSLW

UCSC (Teresa)

• Working from home through June
• COVID-19 oral history project is underway; students being trained
• Focusing more on web archiving and capturing student publications
• New collections now coming in

UCSD (Marlayna)

• Looking at opening Special Collections reading room by the end of the month; a few people onsite now
• Library has curbside service
• Campus has Return to Learn program in place; dashboard
• Collections: Chancellor's correspondence to be digitized; web archiving and downloading content from student newspaper
• Celebration of 50th year of the Geisel Library continues

UCSF (Polina)

• One UCSF branch is closing, so new collections are coming in
• UCSF Library Artist in Residence program has been a big success

UCSB (Matt)

• May reopen in January, but reading room is open by appointment for faculty and graduate students
• Course catalogs (1916-2010) now digitized. Worked with the Internet Archive (scanned and hosted).
• Events recently, including Americans with Disabilities Act event; online presentations of Campus by the Sea exhibit for development/fundraising purposes
• Potential donor may pay for student radio collection digitization
• Collection development: donor meetings are picking up again

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