NOTE: Original message sent to Yvonne Wilson, LAUC-I Chair from Judy Kaufman, AUL for Personnel.

At the 10/6/99 AdTm meeting, AdTm preliminarily endorsed a proposal developed by S. Lessick, J. Paquette, K. Kjaer, S. MacLeod, and me that we would like to submit to LAUC-I for advice and comments.

The proposal addresses how the Libraries might respond to departmental requests for librarians to teach academic courses. The following guidelines would apply only when teaching the course is not part of the librarian's position profile.

1. The Libraries will request (but not "require") that the academic department pay for the course. The fee requested will be based on what the particular school usually pays a Lecturer to teach a single course. Since university policy does not allow direct payment to a librarian who teaches, the purpose is to give support (such as student help) to the individual librarian and to the department in order to encourage and allow librarians to feel sufficiently supported to accept such teaching assignments.
2. The Review Initiator and the librarian will discuss how the librarian will manage the workload of teaching in addition to his or her regular duties, and will develop a plan for how the library's needs will be met, if appropriate.
3. The Libraries Department Head may then make a proposal for how the department would like to use the funds to be paid for by the academic department. Appropriate use of the funds includes: to pay for duties from which the librarian is released, e.g. reference desk hours; to support the librarian teaching the course, eg. student assistant support.
4. Exceptions can be made based on current or past circumstances, on a case-by-case basis.