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Technical Services and Tenure: Impediments and Strategies
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In this article, the success of technical services librarians in achieving tenure is explored, along with perceptions about the relative ease with which they may attain it, and possible impediments to success are identified. Strategies for countering these impediments are suggested.Abstract:
SUMMARY Although the appropriateness of faculty status for technical services librarians serving in academic libraries is often debated, these librarians usually share the same personnel status as other librarians in the same institution. The success of technical services librarians in achieving tenure is explored, along with perceptions about the relative ease with which they may attain it. Possible impediments to success are identified, with special focus on the portrayal and evaluation of the practice of librarianship, as distinct from scholarly or service pursuits. Strategies for countering these impediments are suggested.read more
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Tenure and promotion: A study of practices by institutional type
Betsy Park,Robert O. Riggs +1 more
TL;DR: A survey sent to research, doctorate-granting, comprehensive, and liberal arts institutions across the U.S. provides information on how evaluation criteria for academic librarians vary among different types of institutions.
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Faculty Status for Librarians in Higher Education
TL;DR: The ACRL Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians state that library faculty should have the same privileges and responsibilities as other faculty on campus as mentioned in this paper, however, some conditions, such as tenure and equitable salaries, are often withheld from library faculty.
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Wearing our own clothes: Librarians as faculty
TL;DR: For librarians already on the tenure track, philosophy matters less than the practical matter of achieving tenure as mentioned in this paper... but they need to understand the functions and circumtances of non-librarian faculty so that librarianhip and individual accomplishments can be described in terms that teaching faculty understand.
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Status of the Profession: A 1989 National Survey of Tenure and Promotion Policies for Academic Librarians
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TL;DR: A questionnaire surveying institutional tenure and promotion criteria sent to 469 academic libraries yielded 304 usable responses, showing that job performance continues to be the most widely recognized factor for evaluating academic librarians' performances.
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The Status of Faculty Status for Academic Librarians :A Twenty-Year Perspective
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