How common is it, in academic libraries, for librarians to have tenure but not rank? (I.e., "Assistant Librarian," "Associate Librarian," etc.) Anecdata, please?
We have tenure but not rank at MPOW, which makes us rather odd birds among the faculty and leads to some weirdnesses, like we can't serve on certain committees because you have to be associate rank or higher. It also means that we don't get the salary bump that comes with promotion.
- Catherine Pellegrino
We have rank, but not tenure here. FPOW had tenure (well, "continuing status" and rank as asst librarian/assoc librarian/librarian rather than asst prof). First place I worked as a librarian had neither.
- ellbeecee
Neither. I mean, there's some titles similar to the titles you mention, but they don't mean anything academically; the uni divides between academic staff and general staff, and we're general staff.
- Deborah Fitchett
I've only heard of it the other way around til now. We have rank (Librarian, not Professor) and extended term, which is basically tenure-light. FPOW also had a process parallel to tenure, I think called continuing appointment, but had an additional rank between assistant and associate called senior assistant.
- kaijsa
At Temple U Libraries the librarians can achieve something we call "permanent appointment" (rather than tenure - but it is much the same). However, the librarians do not have faculty ranks. Rather, they have an internal promotion system from L1 to L4.
- steven bell
I can't recall how it was at my first job, but at GVSU, they had both. They're separate processes and there's a sort of 'understanding.' (If I recall, I think people often go up for Associate when they go up for tenure, or shortly thereafter.)
- Laura H.