Résumés
Abstract
Renewal, promotion, and tenure (RPT) are often the most stressful career milestones an academic librarian can face. These events can dictate the course of a librarian’s career. It would stand to reason that RPT guidelines would be thorough and exhaustive in order to better help librarians achieve these milestones. The purpose of this paper is to identify the requirements for academic librarians to receive RPT and determine how they align with standards of assessment for job performance. The authors reviewed libraries in Canada’s U15 Group of Research Institutions for any collective agreements or regulations documenting the RPT process. Eleven of the fifteen institutions had public facing documents, and each of these universities require successful job performance in professional practice, research, and service in order to achieve RPT. The authors apply the Management by Objective (MBO) practice to the findings to better understand how RPT guidelines can be improved to help librarians achieve these career milestones.
Keywords:
- academic librarians,
- academic libraries,
- burnout,
- labour,
- Management by Objectives,
- promotion,
- tenure
Résumé
Le renouvellement, la promotion et la titularisation (RPT) sont souvent les étapes les plus stressantes dans la carrière d'un.e bibliothécaire universitaire. Ces événements peuvent dicter le cours de la carrière d'un.e bibliothécaire. Il va de soi que les lignes directrices du RPT seraient approfondies et exhaustives afin de mieux aider les bibliothécaires à atteindre ces jalons. L'objectif de cet article est d'identifier les conditions requises pour que les bibliothécaires universitaires puissent bénéficier du RPT et de déterminer dans quelle mesure elles correspondent aux normes d'évaluation des performances professionnelles. Les auteur.e.s ont examiné les bibliothèques du Groupe d'établissements de recherche U15 du Canada pour toute convention collective ou réglementation documentant le processus de RPT. Onze des quinze établissements avaient des documents publics, et chacune de ces universités exigeait une performance réussie dans la pratique professionnelle, la recherche et le service pour atteindre le RPT. Les auteur.e.s appliquent la pratique de la gestion par objectifs (MBO) aux résultats afin de mieux comprendre comment les lignes directrices du RPT peuvent être améliorées pour aider les bibliothécaires à franchir ces étapes importantes de leur carrière.
Mots-clés :
- bibliothécaires universitaires,
- gestion par objectifs,
- promotion,
- titularisation,
- travail
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Biographical notes
Helen Power, MLIS, MES is the Engineering Librarian at the University Library at the University of Saskatchewan.
Amanda Wheatley, MLIS is the Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship at McGill University.
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