The Library's Director of Human Resources serves as an intermediary between the Board and its sources of information. Neither the Library Personnel Director, nor a formally appointed Acting Library Personnel Director shall be a regular, alternate, or ex-officio member of the Board. I. Members of the Committee on Academic Personnel Policy shall not be appointed to a Review Board. When a regular member is expected to be unavailable for an extended period of time. When a regular member is excused from reviewing a case because of a conflict of interest.
Board member is candidate's immediate subordinate.
There are circumstances under which the question of whether a Board member is excused could be left up to discussion and consensus between the member and the Chairperson of the Board, or among the Board as a whole. Any member of the Board s hould feel free to initiate such discussion. In case of irreconcilable differences the case will go to the Academic Personnel Policy Committee for a decision. Board member and candidate are colleagues in the same department or small library unit. Board member and candidate, while not working in the same department or unit, have had close professional ties which would make disinterested judgment difficult.