Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Charles Toombs The CFA represents some 28,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches across the CSU's 23 universities. “I am extremely pleased and deeply appreciative that we have reached common ground with CFA that will end the strike immediately,” said CSU Chancellor Dr. Mildred García.

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MAY 1, 2024

New AI Guidelines Aim to Help Research Libraries Lauren.Coffey@… Wed, 05/01/2024 - 03:00 AM The new list of seven principles support librarians increasingly bombarded with questions about artificial intelligence. Byline(s) Lauren Coffey

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Librarians work with every student in the school and they teach them to be discerning users and responsible creators of information,” said Ewa Dziedzic Elliott, president of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians. The bill will also have the Department of Education create learning standards.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

have launched a series of one-day strikes to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches and other workers. Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

Around 29,000 of CSU’s employees are members of the CFA, a union that represents not just tenured faculty, but also the likes of librarians, counselors, and coaches. The union is asking for 12%-raises, though the school system is offering increases of just 5% after recent negotiations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Members of the California Faculty Association — a union representing 29,000 lecturers, librarians, counselors, and other employees — voted 95% in favor of authorizing a walkout, CFA said in an Oct. 30 statement. CFA members are emphatic that low pay, growing workloads and systemic inequities are not sustainable,” the statement said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Lauren Di Monte Lauren Di Monte has been appointed associate university librarian for research and learning at Yale University Library. Di Monte holds a bachelor’s degree in visual studies and a master’s in information from the University of Toronto and in interdisciplinary studies from York University in Toronto.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

The California State University (CSU) announced it will provide all instructional faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches with a 5% general salary increase.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 26, 2024

That includes full- and part-time, tenured and nontenure-track professors, lecturers, librarians and curators, the AFT said.

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Academic Librarian

JULY 27, 2015

In my last post I claimed there were two kinds of librarians–those who divide librarians into two kinds and those who don’t–and that I’m the former kind. I’m neither a librarian rock star nor a prominent keynote speaker, so goodbye to all that. Conservative librarians like the status quo, for better or worse.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Members of the union representing roughly 29,000 California State University faculty members, librarians and others have approved the tentative agreement that emerged from the union’s one-day strike last month.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 22, 2023

I was hoping that an academic librarian would help us interpret this figure. As a non--librarian, ignorant of how things work, I have some guesses about what these data tell us. Are the staffing categories in academic libraries set up as salaried and hourly employees, union and non-union, librarian, and non-librarian staff?

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MAY 4, 2023

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MARCH 14, 2023

While a proposal to lower pay for one group, which includes librarians, didn’t come to pass, at least in its entirety, faculty continue to feel divided in the aftermath of the process, and some worry the new agreement may still negatively affect campus libraries and relations between professors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The union says it represents over 29,000 tenure-line instructional faculty members, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches across the 23-campus system. The California Faculty Association says its members will strike from Jan. 22 to 26 across the California State University system.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

I should have reached out directly to academic librarians to answer the questions posed. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 8, 2024

Today on the Academic Minute, part of Indiana University’s Total Solar Eclipse segment: Moira Marsh, researcher and folklore librarian, uses mythology to tell the story of the darkened daytime sky.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” In her note, Elizabeth recommended connecting directly with an academic librarian to learn more about how academic library budgets work. My concern was the simplistic assumption you put forth that librarians themselves have some agency in shifting funding from material budget to salaries. A: In 1952 B. This is still true today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

copyright law, and some don’t, according to librarians with whom Inside Higher Ed spoke. Even so, the association recommends that librarians wishing to implement controlled digital lending consult a “competent” lawyer. ” Some higher ed librarians on the ground agree. copyright law. It is a judgment.”

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 25, 2024

The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, says it will begin a five-day strike on Monday, the first day of the spring semester for most students. Walkouts are planned at all 23 campuses, from Humboldt to San Diego, which together serve nearly 460,000 students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 24, 2023

Like many academic librarians who contacted me in response to that post, Celia’s email noted the complexities of library structures, budgets, and staffing. In an effort to hear directly from academic librarians, I asked Celia if she’d be willing to share some of her thoughts and experiences in a Q&A. If not, ask why.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 3, 2024

Negotiations between the California Faculty Association — which represents around 29,000 university employees, including lecturers, librarians and counselors — and Cal State have been stalled for months over issues like pay and parental leave. A California State University faculty union plans to go on a five-day strike from Jan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Alexia Murray, a biology major on the Johnson campus, called librarians, in person, essential to her studies. “It’s a lot easier to get help” from librarians, Murray said. The new plan for libraries is to eliminate all books and other physical resources. Students criticized the move.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

Professors, librarians, plumbers, electricians and other workers demanding higher pay and improved working conditions are striking. The five-day faculty work stoppage is the first to take place systemwide across Cal State’s 23 campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

The freedom dreaming that Mims does with students began in Fairfax, Virginia, where she grew up as the daughter of a librarian mother and a lawyer father. They wanted spaces where they could just see themselves and just laugh and be joyful during the school day.” I was able to dream out loud,” Mims recalls.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. I know that many libraries have had to lay off librarians and staff, and that’s a tragic situation. Librarians of all types are incredibly dedicated to serving their communities and are willing to go to the ends of the earth for them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

If they found some interesting, they could then make requests to their administrator or librarian for the full text of articles. “I Contained in a thumb drive that had to be manually installed and updated, the offline version held a catalogue of 500,000 JSTOR article titles and accompanying short descriptions that learners could peruse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Further, in my case, for many years Gretchen Feltes, and more recently Dana Rubin, both NYU School of Law Reference Librarians, graciously served as consultants with regard to my research interests.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The strikes at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; San Francisco State University; California State University, Los Angeles; and California State University, Sacramento are the latest push by the California Faculty Association to fight for better pay and benefits for the roughly 29,000 workers the union represents.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 14, 2024

Professors, librarians, coaches and other members of the California Faculty Association staged a series of one-day walkouts across four campuses last month to demand higher pay, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave. Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S.,

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University Business

JANUARY 23, 2024

California State university faculty members reached a tentative contract agreement Monday, the same day that nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches and other workers struck at the nation’s largest public university system, their union announced.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alexia Murray, a biology major on the Johnson campus, called librarians, in person, essential to her studies. “It’s a lot easier to get help” from librarians, Murray said. The new plan for libraries is to eliminate all books and other physical resources. Students criticized the move.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 25, 2023

The district employs two kinds of faculty members: service faculty, who teach and work as campus librarians and counselors, and instructional faculty, who only teach. The final version mostly nixed the pay cut, but the agreement’s critics are still concerned. Each group includes adjuncts and full-time professors.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Lecturers, librarians and technicians are among staff from 136 universities, members of the University and College Union (UCU), who plan to strike for five days at the start of the academic year, from 25 to 29 September.

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University Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

The California Faculty Association , which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, says it will begin a five-day strike on Monday, the first day of the spring semester for most students. Walkouts are planned at all 23 campuses, from Humboldt to San Diego, which together serve nearly 460,000 students.

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University Business

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the US, will hold a series of four one-day strikes starting Monday across four campuses to demand higher pay and more parental leave for thousands of professors, librarians, coaches and other workers.

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Great College Advice

JULY 1, 2023

Not too long ago, there was a major ethnographic study of how college students actually use libraries for research and learning demonstrated the degree to which students make use of libraries and librarians: not much. The fact is, college libraries now serve multiple purposes.

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