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Appendix II

Student Library Employee Task Force

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Questionnaire for Supervisors of Student Library Employees

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Unit: __________________________ Current number of students employed: _______________

1. Kinds of tasks for which students are employed in your unit.

   Classification Levels	Tasks (Circ, Shelving, Technical, etc.)
   Student Asst II	___________________________
   Student Asst III	___________________________
   Clerk I	___________________________
   Library Asst I	___________________________
   Other ___________	___________________________

2. Time required for training before a student can work relatively independently:

   	Average training time, in hours
   Circulation Desk	___________________________
   Shelving/Stack Maintenance	___________________________
   Technical Processing	___________________________
   Clerical/Administrative	___________________________
   Other ___________	___________________________

3. How many hours per month does your unit spend : (please average)

   Interviewing student employees	___________________________
   Training student employees	___________________________
   How many months in a semester do you interview and train?	___________________________

4. Are students performing tasks which you would prefer to have done by permanent career staff? Yes ____ NO _____

   a. If yes, please identify those tasks.

5. Student library positions are among the lowest paying campus jobs. What impact, if any, does this have for SLE's in your unit. Please be as specific as possible.

6. If student pay rates change, it may effect the number of student hours you have available. How might this affect your unit - pro and con? Please be as specific as possible.

7. What do you see as advantages to having students as employees?

8. What do you see as disadvantages to having students as employees

9. Please describe particular efforts that you and your staff make to create a positive working environment for student employees.

10. Anything else that you think we should know about your experiences with student library employees.

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