SPEC Kit 344: Talent Management · 65
Librarians, library assistants, administrative assistants
Librarians, paraprofessionals, and professional staff
Most staff and faculty positions are unionized. The majority of staff positions are in the clerical and administrative unit
but there are several bargaining units covering library employees. The faculty librarians are also unionized and have two
separate bargaining units for the tenure system and non-tenure system.
Non-supervisory librarians and most non-supervisory support staff
Our faculty and our classified employees are unionized.
Support staff
Support staff (library assistants), librarians, heads of libraries/units
Support staff are unionized. Librarians are part of the faculty association.
Support/paraprofessional staff
Tenure track faculty union and non-tenure track faculty union
There is a small group of classroom support technicians that report to the Libraries that are unionized. However, they do
not perform typical library work.
43. Please indicate whether librarians and other professional staff have faculty status commensurate
with teaching faculty or a parallel status, sometimes referred to as academic status, professional
status, librarian rank, or something similar. Please make one selection per row. N=43
Category Faculty status Parallel status N
Librarians 19 24 43
Other professional staff 1 13 14
Total Responses 19 29 43
Comments N=14
Librarians: Academic Status
Librarian rank and permanent status
Librarians and other professionals are represented by the campus staff association.
Librarians do not have faculty status, but are part of the faculty association (union).
Librarians have a similar process for promotion, but are not considered faculty per se. They are considered high-level
professional employees within the university.
Most of our MLS/MIS holders and some with other degrees are in faculty positions. Our professional staff includes some
MLS/MIS holders and many with other degrees.
Neither option is appropriate for our other professional staff. The only similarity to faculty status held by librarians is that
they are exempt employed.
Other professional staff are treated as exempt staff without academic status.
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