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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