Librarian Status at US Research Universities: Extending the Typology

Bolin, Mary K.

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2008.06.005

Cited by 21 publications

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“…36 Exacerbating the confusion is the fact that there is no consistent status system in American academic libraries. 37 If a new member of a university's disciplinary faculty conducted her graduate work at a school that does not award faculty status to its librarians, why would she assume that the librarians at her new place of employment are members of the faculty?…”

Section: Academic Librarians: Professional Staff or Faculty?mentioning

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

Fleming-May

Douglass²

2014

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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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Section: Academic Librarians: Professional Staff or Faculty?mentioning

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

Fleming-May

Douglass²

2014

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“…Unlike the Master of Fine Arts, which is rarely questioned as a terminal degree, the Master of Library and Information Science is often not perceived as holding a similar weight. Additionally, at most academic libraries, the teaching done by librarians is not credit-bearing, which thereby takes away a powerful and defining role awarded to other faculty, who hold the status teacher of record and thus the ability to establish themselves as experts in their fields through influencing future generations (Bolin, 2008).…”

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Being a scholar in a service profession: Increasing expectations for research and publication in academic libraries

Pankl¹

2018

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“…3 Finally, the hazy definitions of (and distinctions between) "faculty status" and "tenure" among different organizations make its effect notoriously difficult to systematically study. 4 Because of this, though the question of tenure and faculty status in libraries has a long history in academic literature, much of that literature has been opinion-based or even anecdotal. 5 The authors sought to fill a gap in this conversation by surveying academic librarians at different levels in their careers to discern their actual perceptions of faculty status and then compare how these views morph over time in the profession.…”

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Academic Librarians’ Changing Perceptions of Faculty Status and Tenure

Silva

Galbraith²,

Groesbeck

2017

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This study explores how time and experience affect an academic librarian's perception of tenure. Researchers surveyed 846 librarians at ARL institutions, reporting on institutions that offer both tenure and faculty status for their academic librarians or neither. The survey reported how librarians rated tenure's benefit to patrons, its effect in attracting and retaining quality employees, and tenure as a motivating factor in giving extra effort on the job. Researchers found that tenured librarians rated tenure as more beneficial than librarians without tenure who had more than six years of work experience at their institutions. Furthermore, non-tenure-track librarians with fewer than six years of experience at their institutions rated tenure's effect on library patrons as more beneficial than tenure-track librarians who had not yet achieved tenure. The study implies a selective perception bias on the part of academic librarians that grows with time and warrants further consideration and study.

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Librarian Status at US Research Universities: Extending the Typology

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

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

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

Being a scholar in a service profession: Increasing expectations for research and publication in academic libraries

Academic Librarians’ Changing Perceptions of Faculty Status and Tenure

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