Two staff positions in the MSU Libraries are in the process of being reclassified and redefined. The positions are being realigned from functional areas of declining need to a programmatic area of increasing need and workload. 

1. A Library Associate II position focusing on maps and government documents is being reorganized into an Administrative Specialist II position that will focus on supporting the MSU Testing Center, which has been managed by the MSU Libraries for several years now.  
   
   
2. A Library Associate I position focusing on binding, repairs, and acquisitions support is being reorganized into an Administrative Specialist II position that will focus on supporting the MSU Testing Center. 

Initially the Libraries administrative team intended to just redefine the positions and transition and train the two employees currently in those positions to their new roles and responsibilities. MSU Human Resources informed us, however, that role transitions of this magnitude needed to be made through an internal search, with all current full-time employees at the University, including the two incumbents, welcome to apply.

This search, with two service options involving some evening and weekend hours, will open soon and and be posted to https://jobs.missouristate.edu/, perhaps as early as tomorrow. Applications will be accepted for two weeks. A search committee, chaired by Sue McCrory, will then review all of the applicants, interview the selected finalists, and make recommendations about the best candidates for these two newly-defined positions. 

Because the fiscal implications of these position reorganizations will be nil or negligible to the Libraries as a cost center, and to the University as a whole, special permission to undertake these two searches during a period of a general hiring freeze at the University is not required. However, all of the usual reviews and requisite permissions pertaining to searches have been attained, including ultimately the approval of the Provost. 

These changes are part of a larger ongoing process to position the MSU Libraries for continued success in these difficult times of pandemic, fiscal constraints, and changing service needs of this university community. Recently the MSU Libraries, like other colleges and cost centers at the University, has undertaken multiple reassignments of roles and responsibilities due to changes across the organization and significant external challenges.  This is a process that has been discussed and communicated for months.