No 23 No Answer, or Qualified 1 20 k 18 2 31 k University ut British Columbia Library Buiiexm No. 96 May 23, 1973 Vancouver, B.C. CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR NON-PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY STAFF: Several library assistants have recently expressed some concern to the Continuing Education Committee about the lack of opportunities for completing college work or attending courses which might help them in their jobs while they are on campus. The Committee, therefore, sent a questionnaire to most of the universities and colleges across Canada in an effort to find out if UBC's policies are out of line with those prevailing elsewhere. The forty institutions answering our survey replied as follows: 1. Does your university regularly offer free tuition Yes to non-professional employees taking on-campus courses? 16 2. Does your university regularly offer reduced fees to non-professional employees who are taking courses related to their work? 16 3. Does your 1? b ra ry ever pay the fees of non-professional employees taking on-campus courses? 20 *t. Does your library often give time off with pay to nonprofessional employees taking on-campus courses? 5 5. Does your library often permit non-professional employees to work ''flexible11 hours in order to attend on-campus courses? 26 12 2 6. Does your library ever offer "study leave11 to nonprofessional employees in order that they may complete degree work? 6 33 1 If you have any thoughts or observations about this matter, please telephone Howard Hurt in the Curric. Lab. (local 5378). INTERDEPARTMENTAL VISITATIONS; The Committee on Continuing Education is planning this season's programme of "open house11 visits to branches and divisions within the library system. These visits will be informal and although the final arrangements will be left to the head of each branch or division, will probably consist of a tour lasting around two hours. Those participating are: Asian Studies, Crane Library, Curriculum Laboratory, Fine Arts Library, Gifts and Exchange, Interlibrary Loans, Law Library, MacMillan Library, Map Division, Marjorie Smith Library, Mathematics Library, Music Library, Prebindery, Reading Rooms Division, Record Library, Science Division, Sedgewick Library, Special Collections, Systems, and the Woodward Library. (Those divisions not listed above are participating in a separate programme of visits, previously announced). The Committee would like to emphasize once again that these visits should be learning experiences and should be confined to areas where the knowledge gained will complement an individual's own work. On the form below please list those visits which you would like to make. You will be notified of dates and times when the final schedule has been prepared. Please have your request form authorized by your supervisor and return it to Suzanne Dodson, Government Publications Division,no later than May 30. I would like to visit the following division(s)/branch(es): Name: Division: Authorized by: U.B.C, Library Bulletin Page 2 FLEXIBLE WORK WEEK: The Provincial Board of Industrial Relations has approved the Library's application to carry out an experiment with modified hours of work schedules. This experiment will begin on Monday, May 28, and in the meantime schedules are being drawn up and arrangements made for the completion of the necessary records and the monitoring of the experiment. The , letter from the Board is reproduced below and will be posted according to their instructions. Mr. Erik de Bruijn will be responsible for coordinating the operation of the experiment. The Di rector, Personnel & Labour Relations, The Library... Dear Si r, Your application signed jointly with your employees for permission to establish a schedule whereby the necessary employees in the LC Cataloguing & Bibliographic Searching Division, Government Publications Division and Circulation Division may work as follows, was considered by the Board on May 15, 1973. LC Cataloguing & Bibliographic Searching Division and Circulation Division: one of the following schedules: A. 3 days at 9 hours and 1 day at 9^ hours per week for a total of 36£ hours per week. B. 5 days at 8 hours for 1 week; and 3 days at 8 hours and 1 day at 8^ hours the second week, for a total of 72-^ hours in a two-week period. C. 5 days at 7£ hours per week for a total of 36£ hours per week. Government Publications: To average their hours over a 2-week period by working 5 days at 8 hours the first week; and 3 days at 8 hours and 1 day at 8^- hours the second week, for an average of 36^ hours per week. Overtime to be paid after the scheduled hours and all benefits under the Annual and General Holidays Act to prevail. This is to inform all concerned that pursuant to section 11(3) of the Hours of Work Act, and the Minimum Wage Act, the Board has confirmed the proposed hours of work schedule, and the same is given the force of a regulation under the Act. As and when either party to the arrangement desires a change, the Board should be so notified. -* -+ The Board requires that this notice be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place on your premises, where the employees affected thereby may have ready access to and see the same. Yours very truly, (Signed) J.R. Edgett, Vice-Chairman, Board of Industrial Relations, ELECTION RESULTS: The Administrative Resources Committee announces the following results of the by- election held on April 12-19 for the Committee on Salaries and Benefits of Supporting Staff: new COSBOSS members are: Group A: Ray Galbraith and Muna Prasad. Group B: Kathy Walters. Group C: Duane Lunden The response was quite good, with 52% of those eligible casting their ballots. The recent by-election for the Ombudsman Committee was won by Barbara Pearce. PERIODICAL HOLDINGS: The Library is seeking: Library Association of Alberta. Builetin, v.2, no. k (Apr.1971). { Anyone with a spare copy should contact Graham Elliston at local 23O^. The above is a correction of a mis-typed appeal in our last issue.