Re: Tenured Acquisitions librarians?

Hi Stacey,

I have worked at 3 institutions (2 of them ARL libraries) during my 22 year career. At 2 institutions librarians were faculty and tenure-track, and at one we were Academic Professionals who earned Continuing Appointments -- looked and acted like tenure.

In all 3 cases this applied to all the librarians, regardless of whether they were technical or public services.

We all know there is something of a schism between public and technical services; in some libraries this is more prevalent than in others. In my opinion, even suggesting such a difference between the types of services the librarian performs widens that schism even further.

Nancy

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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<mailto:smarien_at_american.edu>
202-885-3842


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