Common use of Library Program Areas Clause in Contracts

Library Program Areas. At any University which, on the first day of any academic year falling within the term of this Agreement, shall have in its employ six (6) or more librarians (as defined in definition 31 of Article I, Section D) who are members of the bargaining unit, the Library shall (but subject, if applicable, to the provisions of Section D(1)(c)(i) of Article VII, and otherwise as the President shall have determined after consultation with the librarians) be constituted and be deemed to be a program area. At any library so constituted, the President shall designate one among the librarians who are members of the bargaining unit to discharge, during such work year, those responsibilities, including, without limitation, the conduct of evaluations, which are required by the provisions of Section A of this Article VI to be performed by a Department Chair and which are relevant and appropriate to the conduct of affairs within the library. The librarian so designated by the President shall be known as the Library Program Area Chair. Prior to such designation the President will solicit nominations from the librarians. At such Universities, the librarians shall review and make recommendations concerning policies applicable to the operation of the library after consultation with the Library Director. Such recommendation shall be submitted in writing to the Library Director and the Vice President. The members of such library program area shall consider such recommendations and suggestions as the Vice President, the Library Director or the Library Program Area Chair may from time to time submit for consideration. Not less than once each semester the Vice President, the Library Director and the Library Program Area Chair shall meet and confer to facilitate the operation of the library, which the parties recognize to be an essential professional service and resource of the University.