Information Processing Center: East Asian Technical Services; Electronic Acquisitions; Middle East
Technical Services; Monographic Acquisitions; Original Cataloging; Post-Cataloging; Research, Training
and Quality Management; Serials; Shared Cataloging.
Information Technology and Digital Development (iTadd)
Lippincott Library: Periodicals; Reserve; Stacks; Technical Processing
Music Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Science Libraries: Chemistry; Engineering; Math/Physics/Astronomy
University Archives and Records Center
Van Pelt Public Service: Access Services working units: (Circulation; Current Periodicals/Microtext;
Faculty Express Service ; Goldstein Undergraduate Study Center; High Density Storage; Interlibrary
Loan/Document Delivery; Stacks); Research and Instructional Services.

ARTICLE III ~ SENIORITY

Section 1. Employees covered by this Agreement shall accumulate the following categories of seniority:

a.      University Seniority: length of service with the University.
b.      Library Seniority: length of service within the University Libraries or the Archives and Records
         Center.
c. .    Working Unit Seniority: length of service within the working units defined in Article II, Section 5
         of this Agreement.

         Length of service above shall mean length of continuous service, with the following qualifications
         applying to employees who have terminated and have been rehired:

d.      University Seniority. An employee who has terminated from a University position and has been
         rehired into a Library or Archives and Records Center position within a ninety (90) day period
         shall be considered to have University seniority from the employee’s original date of employment
         with the University excluding any breaks of more than ninety (90) days in past service, those of less
         than ninety (90) days having been bridged. An employee who has terminated from a University
         position and has been rehired into a Library or Archives and Records Center position more than
         ninety (90) days after the termination of the employee shall begin to accumulate University
         seniority as a new employee. One (1) year after being rehired, the employee’s University seniority
         shall be bridged and University seniority previous to termination shall be added to that which has
         accumulated since the return of the employee.
e.      Library Seniority. An employee who has terminated from a Library or Archives and Records
         Center position and has been rehired into a Library or Archives and Records Center position
         within a ninety (90) day period shall have Library seniority for the purpose of promotion from the
         employee’s original date of employment except for the intervening period and Library seniority
         without interruption from the date of original employment for all other applications of Library
         seniority An employee who has terminated from a Library or Archives and Records Center
         position and has been rehired into a Library or Archives and Records Center position more than
         ninety (90) days after termination shall begin to accumulate Library seniority as a new employee.
         One (1) year after being rehired into the Library, the employee’s Library seniority shall be bridged
         and Library seniority previous to termination shall be added to that which has accumulated since
         the employee’s return.
f.       Working Unit Seniority. An employee who terminates from a Library or Archives and Records
         Center position and is rehired into the same working unit shall accumulate working unit seniority
         only from the date of being rehired; except in the cases of promotion under Article VII and
         temporary upgrading under Article XXIV for which purposes seniority shall be bridged as above
         after one (1) year as in (d) and (e) above.

Section 2. The Library Administration may employ students or part-time employees to fill positions and
vacancies in job categories in the first classification level as covered by this Agreement, or for other purposes as
deemed necessary. Action under this Section shall occur only after the Director of Libraries or his designated
representative has discussed such action and its implementation with the Union. (See also Appendix C,
Understanding No. 6)

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