UC/Irvine faculty committee blames head librarian for bias.

This article deals with the issuance of a report that recommends an immediate performance review for University of California/Irvine (UCI) head librarian Calvin Boyer. The report also urges UCI Chancellor Jack Peltason to survey the library's professional staff with a view to determining whether Boyer is to continue in his post as the university librarian. Established in April 1989 to investigate charges of bias toward minority and female employees at the campus library, the six-member committee, chaired by English professor Myron Simon, questions Boyer's leadership qualities and recommends that the university libraan, like any chair of a department, director of a program or dean of a school be reviewed at five-year intervals, beginning at once. Audibly disturbed by the report, Boyer said that this report has to be viewed in the context of which it was offered by the faculty, as a statement of issues which deserve full ad thorough review. Based heavily on interviews with library staff and on a survey completed by 40 of the library's 43 professionals, the report alleges several instances of discrimination for which it holds Boyer largely responsible. Minority students comprise more that half of the student body at UCI.