The following are the terms governing paid research leaves for professional staff members as approved by the Provost and the Yale Corporation in February, 1975:

1. Only full-time staff are eligible

2. Applicants should ordinarily hold an appointment equivalent to Librarian III, or higher, and should have at least five years of Yale Library service, unless applicant joined the system at the equivalent of Librarian III (or higher grade), in which case the minimum required Yale Library services will be three years

3. Maximum leave shall be three months

4. A successful applicant is not eligible to apply for a new leave for four years after the expiration of a leave

5. A study leave does not qualify as "research leave"

6. Requests for research leave must be submitted to the Associate University Librarian for Human Resources, Organizational Development and Community Relations once there has been approval from the supervisor, department head, and AUL.

7. The University Librarian will establish a screening committee for leave applications. Recommendations of this committee will be sent to the Provost who will approve or disapprove the leave. Notification of decision will be provided by Library Human Resources.

8. Other things being equal, an applicant's performance history will be taken into consideration in the screening process

9. Generally speaking, research projects primarily of a scholarly nature will be accorded equal weight with "bibliographic" or library-oriented projects, but any project must meet acceptable standards of intrinsic merit

10. The Library must be in a position from both a staffing and financial point of view to sustain the absence of a staff member who is to be on leave. Apart from this limitation, the combined absences in any one-year may not exceed 24 months of staff time