9: Staff
Develop Staff to assist users Other Information:
Compensation has not kept up with job expectations and there is evidence of salary compression, issues that must be addressed
to keep and recruit the qualified staff necessary to provide excellent library services. Initially this will require gathering
documentation to compare salaries for Augustana librarians with those of area schools and libraries. A similar set of data
will need to be acquired to support a base raise for library assistants at Augustana. It has been a number of years since
the library engaged in a comprehensive evaluation of job descriptions and assignments. In that time the librarians have become
increasingly involved in partnerships with faculty that result in the librarians being out of the library and in classrooms
to assist in information literacy instruction. We want to review the descriptions and assignments of our library support staff
to ensure that new and growing services in the library are adequately addressed. Staff training is an ongoing part of the
library’s program. Two specific areas that we want to highlight in the near future are training in the use of WIKI and instant
messaging as tools for in-house staff communication. EDUCAUSE is an organization of information technologists and librarians
of which Augustana is a member. EDUCAUSE holds a national annual meeting and various regional meetings to showcase cutting
edge technologies being implemented in higher education. A team of librarians would benefit from attending an EDUCAUSE conference
to participate directly in these learning opportunities and seeing new ways to incorporate technology in the learning process.
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