A Typology of Librarian Status at Land Grant Universities

Librarians' Contribution to Open Access Journal Publishing in Library and Information Science From the Perspective of Authorship

“…The same requirements also apply to academic librarians with faculty status and determine their evaluation and promotion under certain circumstances (Bolin, 2008;Gillum, 2010;Opoku, 2013;Salaam & Onifade, 2009). In 1972, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) approved a statement on the faculty status of academic librarians and reaffirmed it in 2001(American Library Association, 2014a.…”

Academic Librarians and Research: A Study of Canadian Library Administrator Perspectives

“…She states that a contingent of authors and librarians feel librarians are ill-prepared to take on research due to a lack of education in research skills and the demands of an already heavy workload. 7 Joseph Fennewald raises the related issue of whether librarians, in the end, participate in scholarship only because it is required by their institutions. 8 Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales, in contrast, advocate strongly for tenure status for academic librarians arguing that "library faculty members are on par with teaching faculty members in regard to scholarship and service" and, as such, "librarians require the protections offered by tenure to continue contributing to their profession," contributions that ought to be encouraged.…”

Librarian Status at US Research Universities: Extending the Typology

“…7 University websites are the source of data on the status of librarians, including rank system, tenure status, and representation in faculty governance. The typology of librarian status created by the author for land grant universities 8 is extended to a larger population. This approach looks beyond binary categorizations (faculty/staff) by examining particular characteristics of the implementation of models of status.…”