Promotions

[Scott Bennett <scott.bennett@YALE.EDU>]

This year, for the first time in my
experience at Yale, the university-wide implementation of the salary plan
will not have been approved by 1 July.  For that reason, I will not
be able to distribute salary letters this week, as planned.  I will
of course send these letters as soon as I am able.  I apologize for
any inconvenience or uncertainty caused by this delay.

We have traditionally used these letters to announce the promotion of
M&P staff.  There is no reason to delay sharing this information
with you.  So I take special pleasure in reporting now that our
colleagues, listed below, are being promoted this year.  As of 1
July 2000, the following librarians will be promoted to Librarian
II:

·               

Erika
Heinen (Preservation)

·       

Calvin
Hsu (East Asian Collection)

·       

Jennifer
Kostelnick (Science Libraries)

·       

Stephanie
Schmitt (Library System Office)

Librarians promoted to Librarian III are:

·               

Xin
Li (Acquisitions)

·       

James
Shetler (Social Science Library and Information Service)

Finally, librarians being promoted to Librarian IV are:

·               

Martha
Conway (Cataloging)

·       

Martha
Smalley (Divinity Library)

The Library’s “promotion-in-place” system for professional librarians is
unique among Yale’s M&P staff.  Our promotion system gives voice
to the most fundamental academic aspirations of librarians.  

Each of the persons promoted this year has distinguished herself or
himself through excellent performance of assigned duties; through
substantial service to the larger library and university community; and
through engagement with our profession beyond the library.  I read
the dossiers of candidates for promotion with close attention. 
Those dossiers present an impressive record of intelligent, energetic,
and forward-look librarianship; exceptional professionalism motivated by
the highest standards; and a deep service ethic and dedication to the
Yale library and its readers.  I cannot say too emphatically how I
prize the opportunity to work in association with such individuals, and
what a pleasure it is to recognize their success with the announcement of
their promotions.

I am proud of the accomplishments of these superb librarians, who are
prized colleagues to us all.  Please join me in congratulating them
most heartily on their promotions.