Onboarding from the Ground Up: Creating a Community for New Academic Professionals

Abstract

Northern Arizona University is a public research university of 28,000 students with the main Flagstaff Mountain Campus located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Cline Library serves the entire Flagstaff campus. Prior to 1983, librarians and archivists at Northern Arizona University were classified as faculty. In 1983, the Arizona Board of Regents created new employment categories for librarians and library paraprofessionals: Academic Professionals, Service Professionals, and Classified Staff.