A librarian’s primary responsibilities are to fulfill the conditions of employment delineated in his/her job description, to ensure that the library services provided to the University are of the highest quality possible, and to participate fully in the work of the Library Faculty (I.1). Since any adequate definition of a librarian’s schedule should take into account the whole spectrum of a librarian’s professional and institutional services, it is difficult to establish a guideline that applies to all librarians in all circumstances.
Our culture of work comes from our role as Library Faculty. That status confers another dimension of responsibility and professionalism. Inherent in faculty status is individual discretion on how best to fulfill one’s duties. Professional discretion and the ethos of the faculty require one to navigate between the extremes of rigidity and unpredictability; legalism and libertarianism; total accessibility to the public and protected time for writing, reading, and planning.
Faculty schedules will vary significantly from position to position. Certain schedules will change with some regularity according to the academic calendar. All schedules should be coordinated with one’s supervisor and should make sense to colleagues, other staff, and the public.
Approved: 10/10/2003
Amended: 2/13/2009