UPDATES FROM THE BOARD
Call for CARL Board Nominations
The 2023 CARL Nominations & Elections Committee is pleased to open the call for nominations (self-nominations are encouraged!) for the following CARL Executive Board offices:
- Vice President (3-year term, Year 1: VP, Year 2: President, Year 3: Past-President)
- Director-at-Large, CSU (2-year term)
- Director-at-Large, Community Colleges (2-year term)
- Director-at-Large, Private & Independent Colleges/Universities (2-year term)
- Treasurer (3-year term. Please note a change of bylaw for the treasurer term will be added to the ballot. If this passes, the treasurer term will change to a 2-year term.)
- Secretary (2-year term)
According to CARL Bylaws, Article IV, Section 2, every member of CARL has the right to hold any office within the Association. Officer duties are described in the CARL Bylaws https://carl-acrl.org/documents/bylaws/CARLBylaws.html and CARL Standing Rules https://carl-acrl.org/documents/carl-standing-rules.pdf
Terms for these offices begin January 2024, with a request to attend the December 2023 board meeting. Elected officers must plan to attend four CARL Executive Board meetings per year (either four virtual or 2 virtual, 2 in-person).
Important Deadlines:
October 27 - Please send nominations for the above positions to Shamika Simpson, ssimpson@lbcc.edu.
October 30 - Candidates should fill out the Statement of Candidacy Form by this date.
Feel free to contact any member of this committee with questions. Additionally, if you are interested in serving on the Nominations & Elections Committee, please reach out. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you,
2023-24 - Nominating and Elections Committee
Shamika J. Simpson, CARL President
Dr. Edeama Onwuchekwa Jonah, Director-at-Large Community Colleges
CARL Social Media Updates
- Social media - follow and join us on Instagram, Facebook & Slack. To join the Slack community, email Shamika Simpson at ssimpson@lbcc.edu.
- CARL is looking for 2 or 3 people to assist with creating social media content and managing the social media posts. A one-time stipend is available. Interested parties should email Beth Namai at bethnamei@gmail.com and Shamika Simpson at ssimpson@lbcc.edu.
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CARL BUSINESS
CARL 2024 Conference: Save the Date!
 CARL Conference 2024, titled "The Insufficient Librarian: How Justice Fills the Gaps in Our Practice," will take place April 3-6, 2024 at the Holiday Inn San Jose. It will examine the critical need of the institution and our practices to address, counter, and transcend beyond the failures, mistakes, and inactions of the past and present. We will explore justice-centered skills, mindsets, and practices that encourage and empower us to do better librarianship for ourselves and our communities. This is an opportunity to build a brilliant tomorrow which seeks to learn from the past, but never repeat it.
The website and programming information are forthcoming, but registration is open. We’re so excited to have you join us!
CARL Job Listings
CARL hosts a list of job openings at California academic and research libraries. Looking for a new opportunity? Hiring at your library? Read or submit listings at https://carl-acrl.org/jobslist/.
Interest Groups
CARLDIG-S (CARL Discussion Interest Group - South)
Fall Program 2023 Registration
CARLDIG-S Fall Program 2023 - Assessment: What is it good for? (Absolutely nothing?)
When: Friday, December 1st (half-day)
Where: California State Polytechnic Institute, Pomona
After 3 years of virtual programming, we’re coming back in person and offering our first half-day hybrid program hosted by Cal Poly Pomona. Many of us may feel as though we’re mining and creating data for no one, or that the information we’re providing doesn’t impact anyone. Let us tell you, it does!
The cost of registration includes a light breakfast, along with snacks and drinks throughout the day. Due to the cost of reserving a hybrid-capable room, there will be a small cost for virtual attendance.
- $30 for CARL members
- $40 for non-CARL members
- $15 for Students and Retirees
- $10 for virtual
Keep an eye on our listserv, Facebook, and the CARL Slack channel for the agenda. You can now register for in-person or virtual attendance. Registration will close on Friday, November 17, 2023, so register quickly if you want to participate!
Questions?
Please contact our Chair, Leanna Pagano (lpagano@callutheran.edu), or Vice-Chair, Daniel Wilson (danielewilson@outlook.com).
SCIL: Southern California Instruction Librarians
Visit the SCIL Website or contact Michelle Brasseur at mbrasseur@library.ucla.edu for more information on this interest group. If you would like to be added to our general listserv, please sign up here. To join our SCIL Steering Committee listserv, sign up here.
ALIGN (Academic Librarians' Interest Group North)
Visit the ALIGN Website or contact Ken Lyons at kbplyons@ucsc.edu for more information about this interest group.
DIAL (Diversity in Academic Libraries)
Visit the DIAL Website or contact Nicollette Brant at nicollette.brant@csulb.edu or Rayheem Eskridge at rayheem.eskridge@gmail.com for more information on this interest group.
SCORE (Scholarly Communication and Open Resources for Education)
SCORE meets virtually on a quarterly basis and meeting minutes are available. Subscribe to the SCORE listserv to find out when they're meeting next!
SEAL (Science & Engineering Academic Librarians)
A group of librarians are working on re-starting the SEAL interest group. The pandemic initially delayed their work, but the team is eager to begin planning for virtual events soon. Please contact Michele Potter to connect with SEAL.
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PEOPLE AND PLACES NEWS
Retirements
Kathlene Hanson will be retiring from CSU Monterey Bay at the end of December 2023. She has been active in CARL, serving as Mentoring Programming Committee Chair from 2012-2018, Vice-President North from 2011-2012, CARL President in 2013, and Past President in 2014.
Judy Lee retired from UC Riverside on October 17, 2023 after a career of 46 years in academic libraries. Judy served as the Chair of the California Clearinghouse for Library Instruction (South) and oversaw its transition to a California Association of Research Libraries (CARL) interest group, now known as the highly-regarded Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL). After SCIL's successful transition, Judy continued work with CARL by joining its Executive Board as the elected UC Representative to CARL, where she also served as the CARL Interest Group Coordinator.
Appointments
Ariane White, an expert in facilitating restorative practices and a longtime antiracist educator and community-builder with two decades of experience, has been named director of organizational culture, equity, diversity and inclusion at UCLA Library, effective November 6.
Publications, Presentations, and Awards
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has released its list of awardees for 2023, recognizing librarians and information professionals for their contributions to the information profession and SLA, as well as their potential to advance both in the future. CARL member Dr. Lesley Farmer has been named the recipient of the Rose L. Vormelker Award. The “Rosie” is presented to a mid-career member in good standing who actively teaches and/or mentors students or working professionals.
Río Hondo College Librarian Claudia Rivas is one of only 25 individuals selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Radical Librarianship Institute at UCLA California Rare Book School (CRBS). According to CRBS, “[t]he Radical Librarian Institute is the most extensive library continuing education program focused on supporting library professionals to push for widespread systemic change that is centered on social and racial equality, collective action, community strengthening, and public participation.” Along with attendance at the institute, Claudia was awarded $10,000 through UCLA and the Mellon Foundation to fund her upcoming Zine Outreach Project which will promote the institute’s mission through a 2-day Zine Fest in October 2023 with related zine workshops to follow.
Ray Pun (Alder GSE) published an article called "Generative AI Tools Transforming the Library? Rethinking Possibilities and Questions" in Against the Grain (ATG) in June 2023.
Ray Pun (Alder GSE) was invited to deliver the 23rd Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service at Lewis and Clark College in September 2023. His talk is entitled, Un-Librarying: Artificial Intelligence, Learning, and Student Success Today."
Along with Nicollette Davis (Louisiana State University) and Patrice R. Green (Harvard University), Ray Pun (Alder GSE) co-presented a panel session entitled, "Decentering Gatekeeping, Whiteness, and Racism in Academic Publishing: A Panel Discussion by BIPOC Library Workers" at The Urban Librarians Conference in September 2023. They also co-published a commentary entitled, "Medical Libraries and Their Complicated Past: An Exploration of the Historical Connections Between Medical Collections and Racial Science" in the Journal of Medical Library Association (JMLA) in July 2023. They will also be co-presenting virtually on this topic entitled, "Holding Space to Discuss a Complicated Past: Exploring Medical Libraries’ Role in Perpetuating Racial Science" for the Network of the National Library for Medicine (NNLM) Region 6 in November 2023.
Along with Loida Garcia-Febo (Independent Consultant) and Robin Kear (University of Pittsburgh), Ray Pun (Alder GSE) will be co-teaching a virtual asynchronous class called Introduction to Global Librarianship in Library Juice Academy in March 2024.
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BOARD MEETING NOTES
CARL Board Meeting Minutes
Date: 09/29/2023, 11:00 am
Present: Shamika, David, Kelli, Rayheem, Melissa, Jennifer, Nicole, Daniel, Beth, Laura, Annette
Absent: Ethan, Edeama
Meeting Agenda
- Member Check-in
- Board highlight - summer pics/updates & more
- Welcome
- The group shared about their summer.
- Amend/Approve Agenda
- Minutes for May meeting approved
- Amend/Approve Minutes from May meeting
- New Members
- Shamika introduced Nicole (Nakisha Crawford) as Equity and Inclusion Coordinator. Nicole shared that there is a form for concerns and complaints and said we can get in contact directly too.
- Interest Group DaL (Edeama)
- Shamika shared some updates, Edeama not present.
- Made connections with IG leads with updates about elections.
- Discussion for Wild Apricot training for IG Leads
- Plans for upcoming IG leads with IG Group Coordinator.
- Communications Officer (Beth)
- Working on following relevant accounts, posting, liking, resharing on Facebook and Instagram (huge thanks to Shamika for her work with Instagram)
- Encourage all board members to like us on these outlets and then like and share our posts to increase engagement
- Investigating setting up a LinkedIn profile for CARL (need a CARL email address - do we have a CARL email associated with our new WildApricot site?)
- Call for social media volunteers didn’t pan out. In process of contacting SJSU iSchool to see if we can get interns (and give them small stipends of $150)
- Will be putting out a listserv call about our social media accounts soon (hoping to include LinkedIn)
- We still need to approve and post the CARL social media policy (perhaps share with Interest Group Chairs for input before going live?)
- Transitioning to a new job! I start on 10/2
- David shared we can set up [name]@carl-acrl.org email addresses at any time with Wild Apricot.
- ACTION: Beth will promote Slack, Instagram, Facebook next week via email to CARL listserv.
- ACTION: David/Kelli will follow up about email address options/aliases for CARL with new website vendor.
- UC DaL/ACRL Chapter Council Delegate (Melissa)
- UCs entering contract negotiations - contract expiring next summer.
- Budget / Inflation
- UC Irvine hiring DEIA librarian position
- ACRL - need to figure out who to connect with and how to develop that relationship. Shamika has made efforts to figure out who the contact was, but never got a definitive answer.
- ACRL Chapters Council - Melissa is making efforts on this front, reaching out to try to get an orientation.
- ACTION: Melissa and Shamika will investigate who the ACRL contact is
- CSU DaL (Laura)
- Labor updates: https://www.cfabargaining.org/bargainingupdates in fact finding stage, there is a potential for striking coming up.
- Counsel of Library Deans Student Success Committee:
- AI or Learning Analytics Systems or High Impact Library Systems as a Professional Development Opportunity
- Simultaneous admissions process / Integrating libraries
- Rayheem shared he would like Assessment and High Impact Library Systems
- Melissa shared about the AI efforts at UC Irvine
- Awards Committee Liaison (Rayheem - temporary)
- Report on Rockman Scholarship Committee
- 4 members on committee
- Rayheem would like to establish a workflows for the committee and a system of accountability before adding new members to the committee. Currently, there is no language how members appear on this committee.
- Jennifer shared there is some language in the bylaws regarding the prize money and presenting selection to the board before presenting the prize.
- Rayheem will check back in with the group in January, as today was their first zoom meeting. At that point, they will start developing a workflow and the steps to get it all updated officially.
- If there are other committees, Rayheem has not checked in with them yet.
- Shamika echoed Rayheem’s concerns and plans to develop language in the bylaws and will work with Rayheem and the Rockman members on this.
- Annette shared some history of the Rockman committee membership process, from being on the committee several years ago.
- ACTION: Rayheem and Shamika will work with the Rockman Scholarship Committee to develop some guidelines in the bylaws, regarding committee membership.
- Membership Director (Kelli)
- Membership database has been successfully migrated.
- Web committee will meet today. Registration forms will be developed for IGs (CARLDIG-S) and to integrate everything and get website ready for the conference, and streamline everything.
- YM issues persist, even though it was canceled. Emails were sent, but Kelli deleted every member except for her and Jennifer. Apologized for the renewal emails.
- Migration went smoothly for the most part.
- Web Coordinator (David)
- Web group meeting this afternoon.
- Membership system and website on same platform with Wild Apricot.
- Migrating the web content is the biggest task for David. Determining what to migrate vs. what not to (for example, 15 years of IG minutes). Or update and retain content? A lot to determine - who needs to look at content.
- Training for IG web coordinators on the new platform to update IG content.
- Jennifer shared that Edeama should be brought in for the IG training – David shared he will get in touch with her and invites anyone from the board to join in on this too.
- Mentorship Committee Chair (Ethan)
- Treasurer (Jennifer)
- See appendix A.
- Jennifer shared her admin is not working in YM platform, Kelli will check on this.
- Liability insurance - we’re still within budget. CARLDIG-S is the one one using it at the moment.
- Jennifer would like the group to find a new treasurer. Shared the position is mostly like balancing a checkbook.
- Melissa shared renewal receipt for CARL said CARLDIG-S not CARL, Kelli said she can fix it if Melissa emails her the info.
- ACTION: Kelli will check on Jennifer's YM access.
- ACTION: Melissa will email Kelli to fix the CARLDIG receipt issue.
- Secretary (Annette)
- No updates
- ACTION: Beth will email Annette her new contact info. Annette will re-send Beth all the calendar invites for the upcoming CARL Board meetings.
- CARL Conference (Rayheem)
- April 3-6, 2024 in San Jose, CA
- Established contact with new hotel person: Solange Rahmeh still working out details, some information was left out, they did not have the amendment in the contract, but 95% of it has been sorted out.
- Money is secure, location is secure, now we need some details.
- No AV at the hotel, so that needs to be sorted out. It will cost more now, since we have to use an outside vendor.
- We are required to fill about 58 rooms at 4 nights each, so 234 nights total is needed to fill.
- Save the dates have been sent out.
- Website will be a splash page for now, until details get sorted out.
- Steps for the conf. committee:
- Trying to meet in early Oct. for registration fees, and other funding items.
- It’s coming together, but please be patient.
- Let people know it’s coming, the theme is “The Inadequate librarian”.
- Feel free to recommend keynote speakers, does not need to be a librarian. We have some money to offer and can offer them an upgraded suit.
- Proposal calls are coming.
- ACTION: Rayheem will continue to work on CARL conference.
- Vice President (Rayheem)
- Rayheem would like to meet with DaLs and Equity and Inclusion Coordinator to develop a plan for 2024, look out for that email.
- ACTION: Rayheem will be emailing DaLs and Equity and Inclusion Coordinator to meet and develop a plan for 2024.
- President (Shamika)
- Elections
- Julie from (Accreditation Resources Conference), April 21st – might be a good opportunity to get people to CARL and CARL IGs to present and get membership and board member nominations.
- Every single person on this board is responsible for marketing.
- Board members need to ensure that our positions are aligned and updated in the CARLEX Document store – all info, contact lists, etc. Prepare information for the next member in the same position. Shift mindset to “How can I help?”
- All past CARL Board members have a responsibility to be a mentor, even after we cycle off in our positions.
- Shamika shared some notes from a colleague who was very unhappy with all library associations, including CARL. Their colleague shared that the library associations are very surface level and how we don’t dive deep into some of the bigger issues happening nation-wide in libraries (ex. Banned books, Trans-rights).
- Melissa shared how difficult it is to find people who have the energy to participate in these groups. Everyone is over-taxed, so it’s been very difficult - it’s not a unique issue to CARL, it’s happening with all library associations. Especially with people working harder and trying to establish work-life boundaries.
- Laura shared that we can’t be partisan, but we can be an issue-advocacy organization – if we do this, we just have to move forward on this as a board. Things like creating templates for letters for state legislators, newspapers, etc.. Daniel said it might exclude members (which is okay), but Laura said not-advocating is also excluding members. Laura would be happy to take on some letter templates.
- Shamika said that we don’t have to do anything official as becoming an advocacy group, but we can at least let our members know that we hear them and can provide resources / a guide. We need to focus on survival as a group - we have membership, but not a lot of leadership. We need to be mindful that some people think we don’t care. It’s a fine line. Being an advocacy group is not necessarily the CARL charge, but as members, if we want the chance, we need to be the change. We need to present, serve on the board, etc.
- Rayheem quoted one of his favorite tv shows, Truth: “If nothing in the world matters, then all that matters is what you do” – echoed Shamika that we are not strong enough to be an advocacy group. Rayheem asked, how do we better serve our members in CARL and encourage/empower them to consider the various social justice elements and be advocates. How do we work on being a better organization? We need a strategy to build over time. Our organization doesn’t currently have any nominations for the board, so we need to work on that, so we can just be more functional/strong as a group/board.
- Kelli shared 2 main parts to focus on:
- How we do this is an ongoing/forever conversation.
- Creating the space and vulnerability for authentic conversations.
- Building/solidifying infrastructure and connections with IGs and board.
- Daniel shared that people join organizations that they find beneficial. If they aren’t joining, they don’t think there’s any value. If we’re just in meetings talking about things - there’s no value. We are all in meetings all day, don’t need another one.
- Rayheem suggests to discuss more about how we can strengthen our IGs and CARL.
- Shamika: move more towards action, rather than just talking about things
Appendix A - Board Member Reports
Elected Members
- Treasurer
- Purchased new General Liability Insurance plan in August
- Kelli is the only one who still has access to YM. We are no longer being charged, but still have access to the CARL YM website.
- CARLDIG planning event for December - has required multiple prepayments
- Please try to find a new treasurer ASAP, so I have enough time to train them (my schedule has become quite hectic) 🙂
- No Report: President; Vice President; Past President; Secretary; Director-at-Large, Community Colleges; Director-at-Large, Private Colleges and Universities; Director-at-Large, UC; Director-at-Large, CSU; Membership Director
Appointed Members
- Web Coordinator
- Routine updates to web site and job postings
- Planning for migration of web content to Wild Apricot with the Web Assessment group
- No Report: Newsletter Editor, Mentorship Committee Chair
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CARL LEADERSHIP 2023
PRESIDENT
Shamika Simpson
Long Beach City College
PAST PRESIDENT
Rachel Jaffe
UC Santa Cruz
VICE PRESIDENT
Rayheem Eskridge
Cal Poly Pomona
SECRETARY
Annette Young
Cypress College
TREASURER
Jennifer Silverman
University of Southern California
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Edeama Onwuchekwa Jonah
San Diego Mesa College
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, CSU
Laura Wimberly
CSU Northridge
DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, PRIVATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Beth Namei
Sierra College
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DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, UC
Melissa Beuoy
UC Irvine
ACRL CHAPTERS COUNCIL DELEGATE
Melissa Beuoy
UC Irvine
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Kelli Hines
Western University of Health Sciences
WEBSITE COORDINATOR
Dave Drexler
CSU Fresno
EQUITY AND INCLUSION COORDINATOR
Nicole Crawford
Long Beach City College
MENTORING PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Ethan Annis
Dominican University of California, San Rafael
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Kelli Hines
Western University of Health Sciences
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