Summary Chronology Librarians and Faculty Status in the California State University

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1 Summary Chronology Librarians and Faculty Status in the California State University A Work In Progress Early Years List of events and activities compiled by J. Carlyle Parker, Stanislaus State College, for 2/21/51 to 12/9/68 and Gladys Rhode, San Fernando Valley State College, for 5/26/69 to 4/7/70. February 21, 1951 Committee on Organization and Salaries of State College Library Staffs (Brakebill Committee) established to study the organization of state college libraries and the qualifications and salary scale of professional library staffs. (Note: Harry Brakebill was a long time employee in the Chancellor s Office and eventually Executive Vice Chancellor. Presumably the committee is named after him.) March 8, 1954 The California Department of Finance, Division of Budgets and Discounts, Management Analysis Report A.N. 543 recommended that exempt positions of the professional librarians of the California State colleges be classified to correspond to the civil service positions of librarians. The report further states: The current trend in college administration, from available information, is to grant librarians faculty rank and status General dissatisfaction exists, particularly with regard to privileges for sabbatical leave and professional study. The entire question of the policies to be followed and how they should be applied should be considered This situation needs clarification. January 28, 1960 Brakebill Committee recommends all professional librarians in the California state colleges be granted faculty status, including academic rank and class and that salaries be based on the academic salary schedule converted from an academic year to a fiscal year to compensate for the longer work period. In March the Deans of Instruction adopted a resolution recommending faculty status be granted with academic rank and salary conversion to fiscal year. In July State College Presidents adopted in principle and referred to Board of Trustees. 1

2 January 19, 1962 The Board of Trustees placed librarians in the closely related classification of academic employee, Title 5, Section In addition, during 1961 and 1962 an Occupational Study made by the Chancellor s Office: (a) Added Library Assistant I and II to relieve librarians of clerical and technical work. (b) Master s or fifth year in Library Science required for Librarian I. The value of two master s degrees recognized. (c) Librarian V class established, but implementation not permitted by Department of Finance. (d) Promotion to Librarian III opened to non-supervisory librarians. From 1962 to additional librarians obtained Librarian III. Fuller implementation was restricted by the Department of Finance. (Note: Supervisory Librarian referred to librarians who served as heads of departments or divisions and supervised personnel.) (e) Salary structure changed to meet competition but still not equivalent to class room faculty salaries. (f) Librarians became eligible for sabbatical leaves. Some received sabbaticals in 1962 and 1963, but the Department of Finance then prohibited. October 20, 1967 CSU Academic Senate urged Chancellor and Trustees to establish faculty equivalent classification for salary, but without the ascription of rank and class promotions based on professional merit; sabbatical and research leaves with pay and academic year appointments for librarians. April 1, 1969 FSA Sabbatical Leaves (Librarians) outlines the long struggle of the Chancellor s Office to obtain funding for librarians sabbatical leaves and the continued denial/prohibition by the Legislative Analyst s Office and the state budget. The Legislative Analyst commenting on the budget recommended sabbatical leaves privileges be limited to teaching faculty only and the Legislature established the limitation. (Note: FSA stands for the Faculty and Staff Affairs division of the Chancellor s Office.) May 26, 1969 Chancellor C. Mansel Keene distributed FSA Status of Librarians outlining efforts of the Chancellor s Office to obtain funding for librarians salaries and to improve the status of librarians and the Governor and Legislature s continued separate funding for instructional faculty and for librarians. Librarians, 2

3 under Title 5 of the California Administrative Code, are academically-related employees who are entitled to all the rights and benefits of academic employees the same tenure provisions as teaching faculty and the same sick leave and retirement benefits vacations for librarians are the same as those for 12-month faculty and academic administrators The document goes on to say Librarians are entitled to sabbatical leaves insofar as the Trustees are concerned. May 27, 1969 Gladys J. Rhode, San Fernando Valley State College, and Chairman, State College Library Directors Committee on the Implementation of the Senate Resolution on Status and Benefits for Librarians, distributed a new plan for librarians, called the Dual-Track Proposal. Recommendations include assigning librarians to a fully professional track with elective department chairmanship ; increasing sub-professional employment, Library Assistant III ; and, creating a new range Technical Library Specialist paralleling that for librarians. March 16, 1973 FSA This policy moved librarians from the staff side to the academic side of the university staffing structure. Established four new classes: Assistant Librarian, replacing Librarian I and II and related to Instructor rank; Senior Assistant Librarian encompassing Librarian III and related to Assistant Professor rank; Associate Librarian encompassing Librarian IV and related to Associate Professor rank; and, Librarian, encompassing Librarian V and midway between the Associate Professor and Professor ranks. Required second masters degree or equivalent for promotion BUT positions still had to be reclassified later clarification stated that monies for reclassification had to come from non-academic funds. 1975: 10-month year option for librarians passed by California Legislature in (SB772). This was issued as FSA but remains the one document not located to date. However, minutes of the CSUC Trustees meeting, May 25-26, 1976, report approval of adoption of the Amendment to Title 5, California Administrative Code (RFSA ), Twelve-Month Librarians Electing to Work on Ten- Month Basis. Key provisions included: 3

4 Right to election for one or more fiscal years. Subsequent change to multiple year election requires approval of President. Notice six months in advance of effective date of election or change. Compensation reduced but paid in twelve equal installments. Must elect two consecutive months within the same fiscal year. Existing tenure, sick leave, vacation, health and retirement benefits retained on a twelve month credit basis with any fiscal reductions proportional to the reduced compensation. September 1, 1978 FSA The proposed plan was issued as FSA in March but the final version came out as FSA in September. Eliminated the dual track establishing librarians solely as faculty and eliminating the position reclassification requirement. Standards for promotion stressed faculty standards of professional competence, professional contributions, and university and community service. Funding for promotions remained in reclassification of support staff funds. Eliminated proposed class of Supervisory Librarian and established the class of Assistant Director. Eliminated the requirement for a second Master s degree. CSU-CFA Contract, August 16,1983-June 30, 1986 Librarians defined as faculty. All sections of the contract not identifying specific employees or specifying faculty unit employees include librarians. 4

5 Assignment normally to be on campus and work hours for a fulltime librarian defined as an average of forty (40) hours in a seven (7) day period. (Sections and 20.28) Section 20.46, Librarian Work Plan, preserves 10-month year option and clarifies that Ten (10) months of service by a library faculty unit employee in the 10/12 work plan shall constitute one (1) year of service for employment status matters, merit salary adjustment, and retirement. Librarians granted right to compete for sabbatical leaves as Section 27 includes faculty unit employees in the definitions of eligibility. Other leaves are available if eligibility requirements are met no exclusions based on being a librarian. CSU-CFA Contract, 1 July 1987-June 30, 1991 Salary schedule in appendix reflects the movement of librarians to the faculty schedules with the following equivalents: Assistant Librarian = Lecturer, Senior Assistant Librarian = Assistant Professor, Associate Librarian = Associate Professor, Librarian = Professor. However, the manner in which the CSU chose to implement the shift meant some librarians did not receive the raises others did and led to angst among some, especially Senior Assistant Librarians who felt they might never achieve promotion. The bottom line, however, was the base for tenure track librarians who now had to be hired as Senior Assistant Librarians was raised 25% and the top for Librarians was opened another 20% in future potential steps. (Special thanks must be given to Tom Philo, Assistant Archivist and Cataloger, CSU Dominguez Hills, who spent tireless hours tracking down documents.) Prepared by Ann Shadwick Ethnic Studies Librarian Emerita San Francisco State University shadwick@sfsu.edu 29 April