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Every time an employee leaves, there are opportunities to change and improve functions and roles.
Executive Officer Executive Assistant Associate University Librarian, Collections and Research.
New Dean of Libraries: reorganizing administration of the Libraries.
New Dean of the University Libraries who has started to reorganize some of our operations.
New library director plus retirement or resignation of all previous assistant directors.
Reconsideration of roles following an AUL vacancy.
Reflects recommendations of an external consultant. To maintain a balanced budget (neither increase, nor decrease),
an associate director position has not been filled and therefore responsibilities needed to be shifted. To achieve more
integration of like operations with potential for collaboration and synergies. To pursue greater consistency within the
Libraries, to meet users expectations.
The university hired a new dean of university libraries. Also, decreased recruitment activities and increased emphasis on
data-driven decision making resulted in the HR librarian position being abolished.
New Position
Executive director of computing services is a university computing services position detailed 1/2 time to supervise
library computing activities and support, in order to merge these core hardware support services with those of central
computing and realize efficiencies on campus and to improve interchange of information in the academic computing
sphere.
Hiring freeze.
Integration of the Health Science Center Libraries with the George A. Smathers Libraries. New Dean of Libraries:
reorganizing administration of the Libraries.
One new position, Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, came about through a $2.5M gift to endow this position.
Retirement of a staff member.
See above. New library director plus retirement or resignation of all previous assistant directors.
The planning and implementation of the programs and services of the Digital Library (opened in 2011) were the drivers
for creating the positions of Program Director, TFDL and Technology Officer, TFDL.
5. Did any of the positions that were redesigned or newly created take on any responsibilities that
formerly belonged to the library director? N=39
Yes 17 44%
No 22 56%
Every time an employee leaves, there are opportunities to change and improve functions and roles.
Executive Officer Executive Assistant Associate University Librarian, Collections and Research.
New Dean of Libraries: reorganizing administration of the Libraries.
New Dean of the University Libraries who has started to reorganize some of our operations.
New library director plus retirement or resignation of all previous assistant directors.
Reconsideration of roles following an AUL vacancy.
Reflects recommendations of an external consultant. To maintain a balanced budget (neither increase, nor decrease),
an associate director position has not been filled and therefore responsibilities needed to be shifted. To achieve more
integration of like operations with potential for collaboration and synergies. To pursue greater consistency within the
Libraries, to meet users expectations.
The university hired a new dean of university libraries. Also, decreased recruitment activities and increased emphasis on
data-driven decision making resulted in the HR librarian position being abolished.
New Position
Executive director of computing services is a university computing services position detailed 1/2 time to supervise
library computing activities and support, in order to merge these core hardware support services with those of central
computing and realize efficiencies on campus and to improve interchange of information in the academic computing
sphere.
Hiring freeze.
Integration of the Health Science Center Libraries with the George A. Smathers Libraries. New Dean of Libraries:
reorganizing administration of the Libraries.
One new position, Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, came about through a $2.5M gift to endow this position.
Retirement of a staff member.
See above. New library director plus retirement or resignation of all previous assistant directors.
The planning and implementation of the programs and services of the Digital Library (opened in 2011) were the drivers
for creating the positions of Program Director, TFDL and Technology Officer, TFDL.
5. Did any of the positions that were redesigned or newly created take on any responsibilities that
formerly belonged to the library director? N=39
Yes 17 44%
No 22 56%
