On our campus, though the Librarians are considered faculty, we are not teaching faculty. The guidelines for advancement are vague. Even an email to the Academic Dean did not tell me the path for promotion. By length of time? Not really since our current director has been there for decades and is still not a full professor. By publication? Maybe. But not entirely.
Our theological Librarian is half time Librarian and half time teaching faculty. He was awarded full professorship this year, the first Librarian to achieve the top rank. Quite an accomplishment, and I mean to find out how to follow in his footsteps. Meanwhile, together with the seminary where he teaches, we celebrate this important milestone.
We gather in the Fireside Reading Room around ice cream cake and punch and congratulate him on this accomplishment. He defers the thanks to his colleagues who have made it possible, but I happen to know that he spends hours and hours in his office when the Library is closed working on publication and class design and numerous other projects. Every summer he travels to Africa where he teaches in a seminary and to England where he buries himself in research.
He has worked hard and this honor is well deserved. He is not the type to slack off now that he has reached the top. He will continue to advise students and encourage people to reach beyond their limitations to do their best, as he himself does. Congratulations, Barry. Well done. May we all learn from your example.
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