I conducted a survey of LIS-UCR members in October 2006.
A copy of the survey is available in the file store
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=LIS-UCR&X=&Y=&f=/CILIP
I had 14 completed surveys back from individual CILIP members. The feedback I received indicated that the majority of people were still going through the process. 80% of people have transfered across to equivalent grades. I am hoping to conduct another survey in June of this year, I am intending to use the contacts collected in the SCONUL job evaluation database by John Bagnall in 2004 to get an overview of the situation. At the end of last year the advice team met with representatives of HERA and Hay in order to get an overview of both schemes and to find out where our members were falling down. As I mentioned in my earlier posting, there will be an article in Gazette shortly, plus we hope the material we have put on the CILIP website will be a useful starting point.
Regards
Jill Duffin
CILIP Advice Team
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Poston [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 January 2007 17:33
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HERA Job Evaluation Process
Also perhaps this might be something which ought to be addressed by CILIP as well, as it also emphasises an underlying perception problem for the profession. Has CILIP made any comment on the process of HERA job evaluation, it strikes me as something that they needs to be looked at by those advocating for the profession.
I feel this emphasises our weakness as a profession to get properly re-cognised, I was reading a dictionary in a shop the other day and it had acronyms for "Major professional bodies" and their post nominal letters of course CILIP wasn't there. Also Librarian while a professional photographer was listed as a acceptable 'professional' to endorse / witness someone's passport photo Librarian was not listed. Of course neither of these things matter but they suggest some PR work needs to be done.
regards
Tom
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From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Callan, Mark
Sent: 25 January 2007 14:55
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HERA Job Evaluation Process
<<Thanks to collusion between the unions and HR, a number of posts were
singled out for red-circling in the grading
(rather than job evaluation) process. >>
Small reminder: a union is composed of its members. If your reps aren't
doing their jobs, sack 'em! (Of course, that would mean someone else
having to take their places...) And who allowed HAY in, for goodness'
sake? Even managers are wary of it, these days (mainly because it still
leaves them open to charges of unequal pay - which is THE issue that JE
is supposed to address!).
Don't get mad, get organised (as we used to say on the barricades...).
Mark Callan
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From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Malcolm
Taggart
Sent: 25 January 2007 14:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HERA Job Evaluation Process
Greg,
Leeds seems to be the most blatant example of HERA-assisted
downgrading of library staff. From the point of view of local interest,
here
at Keele HAY was used with caution to preserve the status quo for the
most
part, my own post being an exception. Thanks to collusion between the
unions
and HR, a number of posts were singled out for red-circling in the
grading
(rather than job evaluation) process. Our former bedfellows in
Information
Services, who were re-branded as IT a year ago, have fared better than
library staff, but then their star is in the ascendant and ours is on
the
wane.
Malcolm Taggart
Red-circled Sub-Librarian (Systems)
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