Restrictions to Access

This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the SPA Forum of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40293, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: University Archives Staff, September 2008

Encoded by: Adam Berenbak, September 2008

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Academic libraries--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Academic libraries--North Carolina--Employees.
• Academic libraries--North Carolina--Personnel management.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Libraries.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. SPA Forum.

• Staff Association of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40062)
• Staff Development Committee of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40063)
• Librarians' Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40204)

The Library's SPA Forum was proposed and planned by a committee of three SPA staff in the summer and fall of 1993. Its purpose was to raise the profile of SPA staff members in the day-to-day operations of the library and to serve as a forum for the concerns, knowledge and experience of those staff members. University Librarian Joe Hewitt formally established the forum in the spring of 1994. Forum members were elected from divisions composed of the various library departments, and the planning committee arranged the first election. Beginning in May 1994, the forum held monthly meetings to discuss topics such as employee appreciation, health and safety, employment resources, position review, and others that related to SPA employees.

Records of the SPA Forum of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill include files related to the forum's elections, meetings, and other activities. Included are reports, rosters, surveys, bylaws and policies; ballots and other materials related to elections; and correspondence and minutes relating to meetings of the forum.