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Role of Team Members/Faculty Resource, September 2001

Activity	Role
Involvement with national level activities	Role of faculty resource person. Team members can attend national activities.
Training	Team members train new staff; team and faculty train in new concepts.
Mentoring	Integral role for faculty resource, but not limited to faculty.
Interviewing/hiring	Team and faculty share this role.
Discipline/interpersonal conflicts	Try to resolve at team/faculty level first. If choose to go beyond that, is handled by Department Head and Assistant to the Head.
Leave approval	Team and faculty inform one another.
Workflow/workload	Handled by the team with input from faculty resource.
Writing documentation	Team and faculty share this role.
Team meetings	Team and faculty share in the contribution of agenda items and in the taking of minutes. Team members do the facilitating.
Liaison with outside departments and faculty	Team and faculty share this role.
Cataloging	Team and faculty share this role.
Determining team policy	Team and Faculty share this role.
Determining department-wide policy	Role of the Cataloging Faculty group, in consultation with the team.
Monitoring quality and performance	Each team member, including the faculty resource person, submits work to each team member on an annual basis (5 items in total). This is spread out over the year, and includes original and copy cataloging. This provides learning opportunities. All team members receive daily feedback from Special Collections staff as all of their work is checked on an ongoing basis.
Advocate for the team	Shared role of the Department Head, faculty and/or team-depending on venue.
Team annual review	Faculty provides input into the team annual review. The Department Head and Assistant to the Head provide the evaluation and rating.

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