A Report on Librarian-Faculty Relations from a Sociological Perspective

Christiansen, Lars Breum; Stombler, Mindy; Thaxton, Lyn

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2004.01.003

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“…This interpretation of our results fits the "asymmetrical disconnect" framework described by Lars Christiansen, Mindy Stombler, and Lyn Thaxton. 39 Liaisons, by virtue of their jobs, are expected to create connections with faculty who do not expect close connections. The question of how to create these connections, especially given limited time spread among several departments, does not have an easy answer.…”

Section: Possible Reasons For Lack Of Results Associating Faculty Andmentioning

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What Liaisons Say about Themselves and What Faculty Say about Their Liaisons, a U.S. Survey

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Lotts²

2012

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Section: Possible Reasons For Lack Of Results Associating Faculty Andmentioning

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“…7 William Badke presents a harsher view and writes, "Faculty do not respect the roles of librarians, and librarians view faculty as arrogantly ignorant of the functioning of the library, its personnel and its tools." …”

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What Liaisons Say about Themselves and What Faculty Say about Their Liaisons, a U.S. Survey

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Lotts²

2012

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“…As many sociologists have discussed in numerous contexts … contemporary society generally views service-oriented work as being of lesser importance than production, primarily due to the implicit superordinatesubordinate relations that appear inherent in service. (Christiansen, et al, 2004, Status-Difference section, para. 2).…”

Section: Librarian Imagementioning

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Librarian as Professor: A Dynamic New Role Model

Loesch

2017

Educ. Lib.

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The 20 th century information explosion provided widespread technological innovation and ease of access to information, and due to the 21 st century emphasis on digital collections and electronic resources, libraries around the world are facing an uncertain future. This naturally causes librarians to re-evaluate their professional role, but perhaps academic librarians are best prepared for the future due to their co-existing role as professors. Essentially they have always been teaching, but now they must conquer the disparaging image and status treatment to which they have been subjected and evolve their profession by joining their teaching faculty colleagues in classrooms on college and university campuses worldwide.

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“…Christiansen et al call this relationship an "asymmetrical disconnection." 69 The authors conducted a series of interviews and focus groups with librarians and disciplinary faculty members to determine each group's perception of the librarian/…”

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Framing Librarianship in the Academy: An Analysis Using Bolman and Deal’s Model of Organizations

Fleming-May

Douglass²

2014

CRL

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Since the earliest days of the profession, academic librarians have attempted to reconcile their status within the academy. This project takes a new approach to this effort by using Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal’s “Four Frames” model to analyze the issues. To more closely examine the dynamics, tensions, and implications associated with librarians’ professional status within the academy, we discuss the role of the academic librarian in the context of each of Bolman and Deal’s frames: Structural, Human Resource, Political, and Symbolic. In this discussion, we demonstrate that librarians are positioned to address human resource (as defined by Bolman and Deal), political, and symbolic factors contributing to their status within the academy. Also, while we establish that the relationship between library faculty and disciplinary faculty plays a role in library faculty status, we conclude that library faculty status is constructed by a number of forces. We further conclude that many of the political and symbolic conditions experienced by librarians are rooted in structural and human resource factors controlled by upper-level administration in both libraries and the universities.

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A Report on Librarian-Faculty Relations from a Sociological Perspective

Cited by 106 publications

References 25 publications

What Liaisons Say about Themselves and What Faculty Say about Their Liaisons, a U.S. Survey

What Liaisons Say about Themselves and What Faculty Say about Their Liaisons, a U.S. Survey

Librarian as Professor: A Dynamic New Role Model

Framing Librarianship in the Academy: An Analysis Using Bolman and Deal’s Model of Organizations

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