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The Librarianship Portfolio, Part Two: A Rubric for Evaluation

Innovation in Libraries and Information Services

ISBN: 978-1-78560-731-8, eISBN: 978-1-78560-730-1

Publication date: 8 December 2016

Abstract

Purpose

The author proposes the broad use of a Librarianship Portfolio in performance evaluation of librarian work performance and promotion decisions, and a rubric is formulated to guide managers in its use.

Findings

The librarianship portfolio and rubric offer a flexible and significant alternative to many performance evaluation techniques. Tailored to a broader array of institutional types and employment situations these tools can provide both management and employees with collaborative and substantive information about professional performance and appraisal.

Practical implications

The librarianship portfolio itself and the proposed rubric offer the library world a structured, summative and collaborative process for performance evaluation of work performance. They offer employees a means of ‘looking their best’ to the management, and the management a calibrated and clear method of feedback.

Originality/value

The librarianship portfolio discussed as well as the rubric proposed are original formulations and tools, based on well-established and effective evaluative techniques.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgment

The author wishes to thank Christopher Devine and the anonymous reviewers for helpful and significant advice for improvements to this work.

Citation

Mills, C.P. (2016), "The Librarianship Portfolio, Part Two: A Rubric for Evaluation", Innovation in Libraries and Information Services (Advances in Library Administration and Organization, Vol. 35), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0732-067120160000035014

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited