Hi Mel,
I'm guessing that this might have something to do with the national HE pay
deal that was agreed last year. My understanding is that all grades of
staff have to have their jobs evaluated to enable a single spine to be
adopted by August 2006. This applies to academic staff, academic and
related staff, as well as other support staff.
More details on it are available here:
http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=802
If it is something else, I'd suggest that you chat to your union rep or seek
advice from CILIP.
Cheers
David
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Subject: Job description and pay grading
Dear all
I am writing to ask for advice on how to approach a problem that I am
facing regarding my job description and pay grading. I work as an Assistant
Librarian in a university and am having to update my job description. After
initial drafts, my employer argues that they need precise information about
why the job I do requires me to be professionally qualified and educated to
degree level.
I am primarily responsible for the bibliographic services (cataloguing and
classification) in our Education Library, and therefore need to describe
why I need to be qualified in order to catalogue and classify library
material. This is primarily book material but also some audio-visual
material. I also carry out user education, deal with enquiries and do some
supervision of library assistants.
I was wondering if anyone has any experience of this kind of situation or
knew of any publications (papers, guidelines etc) that I could use to
strengthen my case as I am aware that there has been some debate recently
about the employment of unqualified vs qualified cataloguers.
I would be extremely grateful for your help.
Regards
Mel Eyeons
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Mel Eyeons
Assistant Librarian
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Education
Library & Information Service
184 Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 2PQ
01223 767700
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