Hi Stacey,
If you can find them, I suggest reading the first article for sure and possibly the second one. As a professor of library and information science, I teach academic libraries after having been one for over twenty years. One big topic is tenure for librarians--a difficult issue because they don't do exactly what teaching faculty do. Public librarians, especially those that teach information literacy, are more like teaching faculty than technical services librarians who work behind the scenes. In places where the same standards apply to librarians as faculty, public services librarians can also build files that look more like those that the faculty submit. Perhaps this administrator is trying to save tenure for some librarians by abandoning the class of librarians where it is harder to justify tenure.
Janet Swan Hill speaks eloquently about these issues in the first article. I know this article well because I edited the special issue in which appeared.
Bob
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T echnical Services and Tenure : Impediments and Strategies. Detail Only Available By: Hill , Janet Swan . Cataloging & Classification Quarterly , 2007, Vol. 44 Issue 3/4, p151-178, 28p ; DOI: 10.1300/J104v44n03_01 Subjects: Academic librarians -- Faculty status; Academic libraries; Technical services (Libraries); Surveys; Technical services librarians Database: Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) Constant Vigilance, Babelfish, and Foot Surgery: Perspectives on Faculty Status and Tenure for Academic Librarians.
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By: Hill , Janet Swan . po rtal: Libraries & the Academy , January 2005, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p7-22, 16p
Subjects: Academic librarians -- Faculty status Database: Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Dr. Robert P. Holley
Professor, School of Library & Information Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
aa3805_at_wayne.edu
1-888-497-8754, ext 705 (phone)
313-577-7563 (fax)
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I would like to know how many Acquisitions Librarians on the list are tenured. The library administration at my institution has declared that tenured librarians should not be working in tech services, but only public services. I'm trying to gather information on whether there are institutions that differentiate among librarian status and where they work in the library.
As background, at American, we have 2 statuses - tenured or tenure-track and Term librarians. The term librarians are on multi-year contracts and their creative and scholarly duties are less than the tenured librarians. There are 3 library faculty in tech services - 1 is tenured and 2 are term. We are currently hiring for the Director of Technical Services and that would be a term position.
thanks for any information you are willing to provide.
Stacey
Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University Library
smarien_at_american.edu
202-885-3842
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