Document Evolution of Library Positions

This project aims to identify and document the evolution of Librarian positions in the past 10-15 years. Specifically, this initiative will look at the positions that have been re-hired as Librarian positions, re-conceptualized, or never replaced, and assess changes in job duties within positions. The goal of this effort is to collect and create a corpus of all Librarian series current job descriptions to identify skills/expertise gaps and help craft new Librarian job descriptions.

UC San Diego Strategic Goals

Pillars and Strategies

• Pillar 3: Social Justice
  • Strategy 1: Place the voice of our community at the center of our work
  • Strategy 2: Address opportunity gaps for students and faculty through areas of library investment
  • Strategy 3: Contribute to the development of social justice awareness across campus
• Pillar 4: Responsible Stewardship
  • Strategy 1: Extend and leverage a people-first approach to Library leadership and management
  • Strategy 2: Maximize investments that directly benefit Library users
  • Strategy 3: Implement continuous improvement methods to reduce the burden of work, and deliver measurable positive impacts on service performance

Intended Outcomes

• An internal collection of Library job descriptions as well as aggregated campus and Library statistics over the past decade
• A report documenting the quantitative and qualitative (self-reported perception) changes in Librarian positions and duties in the past 10 years
  • Report includes campus context over past decade
• Ideal outcome is an increased awareness of the current state of academic librarianship at UC San Diego