Stacey,
At Arizona State University, librarians do not have faculty status or tenure, but are classed as “academic professionals” rather than “faculty.” Most of the ASU Libraries’ Academic Professionals are on a “continuing appointment” track, which is similar to (but not the same as) faculty tenure. Those on continuing track appointments have job performance, professional contributions, and service requirements and are on probation for six years before submitting a packet to Library and University-level review committees for approval of continuing appointment, or a terminal 7th-year contract if continuing appointment is denied. Continuing appointment is similar to tenure but carries different rights and grievance processes. Both public services and technical services librarians can be on continuing track appointments, with the same requirements for achieving continuing appointment for both.
We also have other librarians who are on multi-year or year-to-year contracts, who do not have the same professional contributions and service requirements as those on continuing track. They can also be public or technical services librarians.
--Betsy
Betsy J. Redman
Acquisitions/Serials Librarian
Arizona State University Libraries
Telephone 480-965-5413
Fax 480-965-1043
Email betsy.redman_at_asu.edu
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Subject: [ACQNET-L] Tenured Acquisitions librarians?
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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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