Oregon offers excellent benefits packages, with a wide range of health, retirement, and professional development opportunities. Both the employee and employer retirement contributions are paid by the institution, so there is no employee deduction. Vacations is accrued at the rate of 15 hours per month, sick leave at 8 hours per month. Low staff tuition rates are available for employees and family members for continuing education. Funding and release time may be provided for participation in conferences and other professional development opportunities.
Librarians hold academic faculty status with rank, non-tenured.
Professional growth and service in keeping with university and library standards for promotion and retention is expected. The University of Oregon is the only ARL library in Oregon, whose 2.3 million-volume collection serves as an important research facility for scholars throughout the Northwest. The Library is host site to Orbis , a consortium of eighteen colleges and universities in Oregon and Washington with a shared catalog. The UO has over 13,000 undergraduate students and approximately 4,000 graduate students, including 2,195 U.S. students of color and 1,324 international students. The university has an institutional commitment to diversity and multiculturalism, and the Library actively supports this goal with its Library Diversity Committee , winner of the University's 2000 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award.