Open AccessRevitalizing your library faculty governance: Five tips to increase involvement
Author(s) -
Ashley Hoffman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.81.5.236
Subject(s) - scholarship , corporate governance , academic freedom , institution , service (business) , academic library , state (computer science) , political science , public relations , sociology , library science , business , higher education , public administration , marketing , finance , law , computer science , algorithm
If you’re an academic librarian with faculty status, you know that this status comes with an equal portion of benefit and burden. Some of the benefits are academic freedom, support for scholarship, and elevated status on campus (though not necessarily higher pay). Some library faculty are even eligible for tenure (though at my institution, Kennesaw State University, we are not). On the flipside of these benefits are a few things I would consider burdens, such as tedious annual reviews and extensive service requirements. Library faculty governance, I would argue, falls somewhere in between a benefit and a burden.