There are four different possible categories of travel, training, and development support within the Library:
These four different categories of travel either:
Below are the provisions that the Library has made for these four different types of travel, training, and development support:
Eligible staff:
All academic appointees (librarian and non-librarian), professional-classified staff (the Management & Senior Professionals (MSP), and Professional & Support Staff (PSS) series—including Programmer/Analyst classifications and non-represented step-based employees.
Note: other staff are eligible for Staff Development Committee (SDC) funds, as described below. Individuals eligible for professional travel are not eligible for Staff Development Committee funds.
Funding levels:
Assistant Librarians, Associate Librarians, and Librarians: LAUC, having its own budget and mission to support the professional development of librarians, will provide yearly per-person funding for professional training and travel. If this amount of LAUC funding is not sufficient to cover the annual expenses incurred, the Library will make available (from central Library funds) for FY20/21 up to $600 per year per librarian. An individual's "unused" funds may not be carried forward from one year to the next, except under extraordinary circumstances and with the approval of the individual's AUL/Director.
Other professionals, listed above, are eligible for up to $600 in travel and training support from central library funds for FY20/21.
Please note: Funds are spent in the fiscal year in which the activity takes place. For example, fees for a class in August 2020 will be taken from the employee's professional funds for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2021. This is the case even if the employee pays for the fees in June 2020 or earlier. What matters is when you attend the activity, not when you pay for your registration.
Non-19900 funds or unit-level S&E funds may not be used by library units to supplement the per-person expenditure levels stated above.
Authorization:
Permission for all travel and training must be submitted in advance to your supervisor and AUL/Director for approval. Funding may be used to cover any portion of professional travel expenses (transportation, registration, lodging, etc.) at the discretion of the traveler.
The use of the LAUC portion of the funding is governed by LAUC. Authorization and allocation process for the LAUC-B-funded portion of travel are controlled by LAUC-B.
Units should normally use unrestricted endowment funds or other funds that support travel first for support of collection development work before tapping into central Library collection budget funds.