[NHCOLL-L:2717] Re: Collections managers question

[Doug Yanega]

>We are in the midst of trying to argue that our job titles and job 
>descriptions accurately reflect what Collections managers do; the 
>new Human Resources system has us categorized as Museums Registrars; 
>and the said job description certainly does not reflect what our 
>jobs are.  We (and our directors) are working to change that. 
>Separate, is the issue of being classified as exempt vs non-exempt 
>employees.  Formerly, we were all exempt, somehow the HRA people 
>have determined that we do not fall into the "Learned Professional" 
>category to be exempt, so our jobs will be changed to non-exempt 
>status.

Ask your HRA people how they would categorize a person organizing a 
collection of books that had no covers, no title or author pages, 
were in dozens of languages, AND were completely encrypted - the 
*minimum* skill requirement would be aptitude at code-breaking, plus 
facility with languages. You wouldn't call such a person a 
"librarian" - none of the books would be of use to anyone unless that 
person were there to interpret them, so there's a huge "value added" 
component to be taken into consideration.
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Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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