The following email is yet another sign that LAC management is failing to treat its archival and research professionals with respect. Recently management there made a unilateral decision to remove the peer review system for promotion. Below you will read the message regarding the demise of the Comité de promotion de la recherche historique (CPRH) / … Continue reading »
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“Our universities have become factories” (UK Telegraph)
By By Gordon Campbell, Council for the Defence of British Universities “For many years I have worked at one of the 40 or so universities that describe themselves as a top-20 university. And when I entered the profession, universities – though largely independent of government – were part of the education sector. We are now, in the … Continue reading »
Collective Agreement Reading and Discussion Group 2012 Edition
Thanks to feedback from the March 2012 librarians’ meeting, the Collective Agreement Reading and Discussion Group, an ad hoc group whose goal is to familiarize APUO librarians with their Collective Agreement will be meeting again this summer. We will meet for 1.5 hours on the following dates: June 6, 13, 20 and July 11, 18, … Continue reading »
What’s going on at our table?
In my previous post, I neglected to mention what the major issues are for librarians at the University of Ottawa. At the beginning of our current round of bargaining we brought the following issues to the table: – Performance standards in librarians’ annual reviews. UO librarians felt that the need to have “more than satisfactory” … Continue reading »
