LACUNY had its first Executive Council meeting of the year last Friday at the Graduate Center.
The 2019-2020 Officers are:
President- Ian McDermott (LaGuardia)
VP- Jeffery Delgado (Kingsborough)
Secretary: Wanett Cylde (City Tech)
Treasurer: Ryan Phillips (Baruch)
The call for proposals just went out for this Fall's Grace-Ellen McCrann Lecture series, that will take place on October 25th at the Graduate Center. The Lectures will be followed by the Fall Membership meeting.
This year's LACUNY Institute will be at Bronx CC in the Spring. More information, including the theme will be forthcoming.
Currently there is only one editor for the Urban Library Journal (Derrick Stadler, LaGuardia) as the other editor had stepped down. There was a lot of discussion in the meeting about what to do going forward as it is currently an elected, two-year term position. For the time being LACUNY will look to recruit someone to serve out the rest of the existing term. LACUNY is looking into updating its bylaws to change the editor positions to appointed (rather than elected) positions to help with continuity. (Currently, both editors have terms that end at the same time, which had been identified as a challenge.)
There was also talk at the meeting about the LACUNY Roundtables. There has been interest from members in reviving the Library Faculty Mentoring, Privacy, and Web Management Roundtables. So far, calls have gone out on CULIBS (our listserv) to find people who may be interested in Web Management and Privacy.
(I'm the person who put the call out for Web Management, and the interest was strong, so we'll likely have a meeting later this semester.)
Lastly, there was discussion about what, if anything, LACUNY could do or say to lessen the burden of Alma Migration. Those of us in the room who are working closely with it basically just asked that the folks that won't really be affected by the migration to be understanding and patient because it's happening next Summer and those of us affected need to prioritize migration and training. (CUNY has been using Primo for several years, so this primarily affects access services and technical services folks as the front-end interface is staying the same.)
The next EC meeting will be on October 11th.
