[Wactclc-alma] [EXT] off-topic: tenure file

[Guidry, Wade]

Abby,

I had to smile just a little bit. You just started, and you’re already moving into “why should we give you tenure?” Who said academics wasn’t a jungle? 😊

Seriously though, I’ve written a couple of letters in support of tenure for folks in our group.

They mainly focus on contributions by the individual to the CTC library community.

In that regard, offering webinars to the community on identified needs and solutions developed, like the work you’re doing already with the Database Search stuff, would be a great way to show both growth in your role, and service to the academic community.

Other examples might be

-any user record load process improvements you might work out for Whatcom (adding department info, statistical categories for users, etc)

-Analytics work that might add value to measuring student success as it relates to library use (I know that’s a topic near to Howard’s heart)

-Any kind of improvement processes for electronic resource management, or e-access (ezproxy, etc), or anything related to improving discovery for OER / Open Access.

-As Laura kind of mentions, any kind of work around accessibility would be important and valuable. Ward Naf at Whatcom is one of the accessibility leaders amond the CTCs, and might be a good person to partner with.





Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474
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For teaching - do you train staff? Or students for ctcLink?  Maybe write up a formal list of learning objectives for some teaching you do informally, and then describe the need, the training you devised, and the outcome; "the staff member could now download MARC files from OCLC..."  or something similar? And if you found a better way, then describe how you changed your instruction, as a way of showing growth?

For professional effectiveness - would it work to list some problems that have come up that you've solved?  For example, "the text on Primo started turning white on mouseover, making it impossible to read. I researched this (list places) and made a change to the html file. Maybe with a before and after screenshot.

Laura


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Hi all, and happy Monday!

Apologies for the off-topic post, please feel free to directly me elsewhere.



I have a systems job, tenure-track, which means I need to build a tenure file full of documentation for a committee of other faculty that will eventually go to the college’s board for approval (in 2.5 years). My current job description doesn’t include anything about instruction officially, and the committee and I have been trying to hash out how to demonstrate personal growth without anything like student evaluations to rely on. We’ve come up with several possible avenues, but are still trying to come up with a good way to show that growth piece – and I wondered if anyone here has come up with some way to show that (for an eval or tenure file) specifically for the systems/ tech serv kind of work. I have Sally’s tenure file from several years ago, but this is a different time/ committee… and I would welcome any thoughts if anyone has anything to share. This isn’t about attending conferences or being on committees, it’s the Teaching/ Professional Effectiveness category that we’re trying to muddle through.



I welcome any direct messages or thoughts! I’ve been through several list archives for different veins of our professional work but haven’t come across anything yet… and I have about a month before my first progress report is due!

Hope you all are well,

abby



abby koehler

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Faculty Systems Librarian

Whatcom Community College

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