A late post, but, ditto here.
I report to the Director of the Center for Educational Media in the
College of Education. Here's how:
We opened as part of a grand design in 1975 as the distribution
component of a Learning Resources Center that also featured creation and
production of academic support programming (curriculum design,
photographic studio, graphics design, television studio, equipment
services). Our director reported to the Dean of Learning Resources who
reported to the VPAA. Over the years the grand design fractured, and our
director moved up the administrative chain to report directly to the
VPAA. Over the next 15+ years our director's position gradually moved
down the administrative chain to Associate VPAA, to Dean of the College
of Education, to a director under the Dean of COE. We landed in the
College of Education because our building was given to the college in
the early 90s (they did not have one, and part of the university's core
mission is training teachers). No money/space were available to move us
somewhere else, certainly not into the main library. So, here we are.
Enjoyed seeing the varied permutations of reporting structures!
Gail
On 10/13/2011 10:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Don't get me started...
The UCB Media Center started out as part of the Moffitt Undergraduate
Library, and so, in the early years, reported to the Head of that library.
In 1993, the undergrad library was reorganized, folded, stapled, and
mutilated. Most professional staff were disbursed into the Main Library
staff pool...except: a handful of librarians remained behind to form what
was called the Teaching Library--i.e. the bibliographic instruction unit
for the humanities and social sciences. The Media Center stayed put
physically, and reported to the head of that program (now called
Instructional Services)
We still report to the head of that program...for historical reasons, more
than anything. Makes no real sense in my book, but then again, less and
less makes sense to me around here.
As a grotesque side: we've recently gone through a paroxysm of what
campus has ironically called an "Operational Excellence" planning-- i.e.
grasping at straws thru layoff and reorg. As part of this madness, many
org charts have been redrawn, including the reporting lines of MRC: I
still report directly to the head of Instructional Services, BUT (be
still, my blood pressure) so does Gisele and all the student employees in
MRC...this, in reality, means absolutely nothing, except to make the
library look like it did its duty by flattening the administrative org
chart.
More than you ever wanted to know, eh?
Greetings,
I see by the Videolib Archives that this question hasn't been asked in a
while, and so I'll pose it to the group this morning. To those of you in
media centers in academic libraries, to whom do you report? Public
Services? Library Director? Collections?
Thanks!
Lori Widzinski
Head, Multimedia Collections and Services
University at Buffalo Libraries
State University of New York
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Middle Tennessee State University
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