Mission      Top

The FLICC Personnel Working Group is an ad hoc working group organized to:

• recommend actions, positions, and policy to FLICC on personnel issues affecting federal libraries;
• act as liaison to OPM on behalf of FLICC;
• uphold classification and qualification standards that accurately identify and describe the work needed and the competencies required for both professional and support staff in federal libraries and information centers;
• develop and recommend actions that enhance the security, recognition, and status of personnel working in the field of librarianship and information science;
• analyze information-related activities, identify trends, and develop position statements for FLICC that will help to define the role of federal librarians in the current and future information society;
• act as a liaison with professional organizations and related interest groups on personnel issues; and,
• recommend training needs for federal library and information center staff on personnel issues, including writing job descriptions and applying classification and qualification standards.

• Sample Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Statements (KSAs).

  The working group is developing sample KSAs to help hiring officials specify appropriate quality ranking factors for vacancy announcements for federal librarian positions. These KSAs are intended as a guide and are not associated with specific grade levels nor are they intended to be used for the purpose of classifying 1410 positions.

  The Working Group invites you to review these documents. Please email your comments, additions or questions to Kathy Eighmey, the FLICC staff liaison to the Personnel Working Group.

  • Public Services Librarians
  • Systems Librarians
  • Catalogers
  • Acquisitions and Serials Control Librarians
  • Administrative Librarians

• FLICC Annotated Guide to the OPM Classification Standards
• Letters to Stephen Perloff, Chief, Qualifications Standards Branch, OPM, regarding the revision of the qualification standards for the GS-1410 series.
• March 1998
• June 1999
  • Text of Test 536, Library Equivalency Memorandum
• Letter to Donna Gregory, Director, Nationwide Examining Policy Office, OPM, proposing revisions to the qualification standards for the GS-1410 series (July 2000).
• Proposed text of 1410 qualifications
• Highlighted changes to 1410 qualifications

• OPM Qualifications Standards for GS-1410 Librarian Series

Membership      Top

• Current Members
• Please join us! For more information, contact:
  Staff Liaison - Anna Bohlin, FLICC/FEDLINK

Minutes      Top

• February 1998

• March 1998

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