Updating peer review documentation

• The Committee on Advancement and Promotion first reviewed and edited the Procedures for Appointment and Review for correctness and currency. This was done upon request by the System-wide Committee for Professional Governance. The Procedures, renamed the Procedures for Review and Advancement in the Librarian Series for Represented Librarians, were evaluated by CAP three years ago but were never finalized or approved. Consequently, the 1999 procedures were never superseded. This year’s CAP reviewed the Oct. 2002 draft, made our own changes and submitted the draft along with a list of questions to the AUL-Human Resources on April 27, 2005. Major changes involved removing the section on appointments, citing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) rather than the Academic Personnel Manual (APM), and reflecting the addition of Librarian steps VI and VII.

• The Committee for Professional Governance also noted that our Helpful Tips on the Review Process needed to be updated. CAP re-wrote the Tips, citing both the MOU and the APM so the document could be used by both represented and non-represented librarians. The Tips were sent to the AUL-Human Resources on May 10, 2005.

• CAP next updated the Instructions for Performance Evaluation and submitted them to the AUL-Human Resources on Sept. 1, 2005.

peer review-CAP draft 4-20-05.doc
Helpful Tips.doc
Instructions05 Untracked Draft 9-1-05.doc; or Instructions05 Draft 9-1-05.doc (the tracked version)

The Nyholm Award ceremony was held November 20, 2004 at the Faculty Club. The recipient of the award was Lucia Snowhill. Arrangements for the award were made by the previous CAP committee. A call for nominations for the 2005 award was issued August 8, 2005.

Fourteen people were reviewed this year. CAP compiled a list of names of librarians who might serve on the peer review committees and submitted the names to the AUL-Human Resources. The Ad Hoc Confidential Review Committees met their deadline in completing their review of the packets.