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Librarian faculty at Kennesaw State University are educator-practitioners engaged in professional librarianship. Professional librarianship is defined within the field as professional library service in support of the educational, scholarship, and service functions of the University.
Professional librarianship includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
- Ensuring high quality service, consultation, and comprehensive reference services to students, faculty, and other clients
- Providing enhanced access to information and contributing to global, networked information resources
- Acquiring, organizing, managing, and preserving information resources in a broad range of formats
- Creating an environment conducive to learning and scholarship
- Teaching information retrieval and evaluation using current and emerging technologies
The position is non-tenure track, and the holder is not eligible for consideration for the award of tenure or probationary credit toward tenure. There will be no administrative transfers between tenure track and librarian faculty positions. However, faculty holding one type of position may apply for a declared, open position of the other type and be considered through the normal search and screening process.
The terminal degree appropriate for initial appointment to all academic ranks as a library faculty member in the Horace W. Sturgis Library or Lawrence V. Johnson Library is an ALA-accredited master’s degree or international equivalent in librarianship/information science. For those library faculty with specialties in other areas, such as archives or automation, an additional master’s degree in the appropriate field may be a valid terminal degree.
Departments and colleges may also establish an optional third-year review for non-tenure track librarian faculty to provide feedback for an optional promotion review. As indicated in the KSU Faculty Handbook Section 3.1 (Introduction), establishment and revision to guidelines must be approved by the full-time permanent faculty in the department or college, as appropriate, the department chair (for department guidelines), the College P&T Committee, the dean, and Provost.
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