This page gathers together the policies, guidance, and templates to support the continuous appointment (CA) & promotion process for the Librarian series of employees.
Key Links
- Google Drive folder for Continuous Appointment & Promotion materials
- Librarian Continuous Appointment and Promotion Process: Policies and Procedures
- Dossier Clinic materials: agenda, slides, and recordings for FY23
- Dossier examples: Several librarians have shared the dossiers they submitted during probationary years and when seeking promotion to Associate Librarian and to full Librarian. These dossiers provide examples of different ways that candidates can put together the story of their work.
- FY24 Probationary librarians list: Updated 9/07/2023
Dossier Components
Personal statement
Curriculum vitae
- Works.umn.edu
- Works interface: annotated with guidance on where to input core CV elements for the Libraries
- Works CV template for Libraries: Tips on how to customize outputs using the UMN standard CV template for CA, promotion, and annual review purposes.
- Sample Works CV: This is an example of a Libraries CV using Works and light formatting upon running a report to Word. It relies on heavy use of the Annotation feature throughout Works to provide context and impact information.
Exhibits
- Exhibits are not required in Year 1 or Year 2 on the CA track, but it can be good practice for thinking about how to contextualize and describe the impact of the chosen exhibits.
- Guidance for dossier exhibits (2018)
- Electronic exhibits table of contents template
- Dossier exhibit description: An example of how one might provide context for items chosen for exhibits.
External reviews
- Those seeking promotion to Associate Librarian and to full Librarian will have external review letters as part of their dossier.
- External and internal reviewers of candidate dossier for continuous appointment and/or promotion: This document provides an overview of the external reviewer process and provides guidance for putting together a list of potential reviewers.
- External review letter spreadsheet: Use this template to compile a list of potential reviewers.
- External review letter templates: The Google Drive folder that gathers templates used for soliciting external reviews.
Who reviews?
- University Libraries standing peer review committee: Committee overview and procedures. This committee reviews all candidates for promotion to Associate Librarian and conducts 3rd year reviews of probationary (i.e., CA-track) librarians.
- Librarian rank peer review committee: Committee overview and procedures. This committee of the whole reviews all candidates for the Librarian rank.
- Librarian rank peer review committee members: This is the current list of librarians at the full Librarian rank.