Constantia Constantinou SUNY Maritime Trudi Jacobson SUNY Albany Background of the Rank Requirements for consideration Working towards the rank The responsibilities of those who are at this rank ID: 269481
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SUNY Distinguished Librarians
Constantia Constantinou -- (SUNY Maritime)Trudi Jacobson -- (SUNY Albany) Slide2
Background of the Rank
Requirements for consideration
Working
towards the
rank
The
responsibilities of those who are at this rank
The
routes Constantia and Trudi
took
Potential
role for SUNYLA Slide3
Background of the Rank
Rank and Status
- Distinguished Librarian is a rank above Full Librarian. This rank parallels the Distinguished Professor rank in terms of expected level of accomplishment and the rarity in awarding the rank.
The
State University of New York recognizes the accomplishments of all its faculty; it also assumes national leadership within the academy by becoming the first university system to so encourage and foster the full potential of the faculty status of librarians.
The
Distinguished Librarian rank honors and promotes the achievement of personal excellence, groundbreaking professional progress, and wide-ranging benefit to the academic
communitySlide4
Background of the Rank
Since
1964 have been 5 SUNY Distinguished Librarians
:
Meredith
Butler (SUNY Albany)
Cerise
Oberman (SUNY Plattsburg)
Carla
List (SUNY Plattsburg)
Trudi
Jacobson (SUNY Albany)
Constantia
Constantinou (SUNY Maritime) Slide5
Requirements for Consideration
Minimum of 10
years of
service at SUNY
Minimum
of 5
years at the rank of
tenured Full Librarian
Having a longer
career as a librarian than indicated by the minimum years of
service
State-operated campuses
Distinguished Librarian Guidelines:
http://www.suny.edu/provost/academic_affairs/Dist_Lib_Guide.cfmSlide6
Working Towards the Rank
Contributions
to the profession of librarianship that are of national or international
significance
Achieve
stature and distinction beyond their own library, beyond their own college or university,
beyond SUNY through
formal scholarship, research, and publications,
and other
paths
including
extended efforts toward forging alliances, networks, and cooperative programs that advance resource sharing and significantly improve access to information or enhance its usefulness to the
community
Break boundaries
,
expand
potentials, and
engender
positive change in
academe
Demonstrated
leadership in realizing the potential for access to world-wide information
resources
performed with excellence and innovation in the traditional areas of
librarianship
They
will have earned the respect of members of the information professions as well as their academic professorial counterparts by the quality, vigor, and innovative nature of their thinking, their standards of performance, and the effectiveness of their
initiativesSlide7
The
Responsibilities
of those at the Rank
Those
appointed are expected to function as role models and devote appropriate service to the home campus, to the State University, and to the profession.
Distinguished
Librarians are expected to provide service to the State University, both ceremonial and professional, on campuses other than their own when requested to do so by the ChancellorSlide8
The
Responsibilities
of those at the Rank
Distinguished Academy:
Contribute
to the creation of knowledge by providing faculty and students with access to information resources that enhance and promote learning and scholarly
inquiry
Contribute
to the learning environment of each SUNY campus by creating virtual and physical spaces and programs for faculty and students that are designed to inspire and support
learning
Promote
the
value and visibility of librarianship in higher
education
Inspire
and mentor our librarian colleagues to achieve the Distinguished Professorial
rank
Explore
opportunities
to
promote
SUNY–wide
library initiatives that represent and
reflect the
goals of
SUNY
Chancellor’s strategic
plan
Slide9
Trudi and Constantia
Slide10
The
Potential Role of SUNYLA
Establish:
Support groups for those working towards the
L
ibrarian rank
Support groups for those working towards Distinguished Librarian rank
Clearinghouse of information for those aspiring to the Distinguished Librarian rank
Mentoring program for one on one interactions
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Role for Distinguished Librarians
Serve as a conduit from SUNYLA to SUNY Provost’s office