Administrative Succession in the Academic Library

Metz, Paul

doi:10.5860/crl_39_05_358

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“…27 A few years earlier, Paul Metz also had determined that "The greater propensity of women to be hired from the inside exists in both public and private institutions." 28 Janet L. Justis's 1993 study both reinforced those findings and suggested a subtle change. More women than men will still promoted internally, but the percentages were slight, 58.14 for women and 46.15 for men.…”

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confidence: 48%

Career and/or Children: Do Female Academic Librarians Pay a Price for Motherhood?

Zemon

Bahr

2005

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Although women have made significant progress in traditionally male-dominated occupations such as law, medicine, business, and science, those who have children are unlikely to advance to the top positions in their fields. This study examines academic librarianship, a “feminized profession” in which women represent close to 70 percent of the work force, to determine if women in the highest-level job, the directorship, have been able to both succeed in their careers and become mothers.

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Section: Career Patterns: Considerationssupporting

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Career and/or Children: Do Female Academic Librarians Pay a Price for Motherhood?

Zemon

Bahr

2005

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“…The only variable likely to influence the success of women in achieving the director's position was whether they were an internal candidate for the position, having been an assistant or associate director in the same institution. Several years earlier, Metz (1978) had reported this same pattern of internal succession for women -a pattern that is much less likely for men.…”

Section: The 1960s To 1980s In the Us And Canada: "Who Are These Womentioning

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“…Women, however, were twice as likely to report geographic location as a factor in accepting positions and career advancement was often related to job mobility. Studies by Metz (1978), Martin (1979), and Maag (1981) provided data on recruitment of academic library directors, job mobility and advancement. Metz, who examined succession patterns of academic library directors, found external male candidates were most often recruited into academic libraries.…”

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Career Advancement and Writing about Women Librarians: A Literature Review

DeLong¹

2013

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the terms of the Creative Commons-AttributionNoncommercial-Share Alike License 2.5 Canada (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -This review of the literature provides a framework for understanding the professional experiences of women library directors in academic libraries. It focuses upon career advancement and writing about women librarians in the United States and Canada from the 1930s to 2012.Methods -Databases from the disciplines of library science and business and management, including the larger social sciences, were searched for references to sources that dealt with career advancement and progression of women, specifically women librarians, from the 1930s to 2012. Similarly, these databases were also searched for sources pertaining to writing about women, especially women in libraries. Sources were also culled from major bibliographies on women in libraries. Articles and monographs were selected for inclusion in the review if they reported research findings related to these broad topics. In some cases sources from the professional literature were included if they offered a unique perspective on lived experience.Results -Evidence shows the number of women in senior leadership roles has increased over the years. From the 1930s to the 1950s it was the natural order for men to be heads of academic libraries, particularly major research libraries. Research studies of the decades from the 1960s to the 1980s provide evidence of a shift from the assumption that various personal and professional characteristics could be identified to account for differences in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2013, 8.1 60 the number of men and of women recruited into senior positions in academic libraries. Despite this, women remained vastly under-represented in director positions in academic libraries. From the 1990s to the present, the evidence shows the number of women in senior leadership roles increased, despite factors such as mobility, career interruptions, or lack of advanced degrees that were traditionally identified as limitations to career growth. While women have gained in terms of the number of senior positions in academic libraries in the U.S. and Canada they are still not proportionately represented. The results section concludes with a review of sources that pertain to writing about women library leaders. This emphasizes that the professional lives of women librarians are largely unknown, as is the importance of their contribution to the development of libraries and librarianship. These sources were included to highlight the critical importance, but lack of material that speaks to writing about women and their professional lives and experiences.Conclusions -Research into the lives of women librar...

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“…4 A study by Paul Metz on ''Administrative Succession in the Academic Library'' examines issues such as the external versus internal candidate and the impact of female candidates for library directorships. 5 The use of committees in the search process is also discussed by William Fisher.…”

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Selection of the University Librarian

Newman¹

1990

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Administrative Succession in the Academic Library

Cited by 13 publications

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Career and/or Children: Do Female Academic Librarians Pay a Price for Motherhood?

Career and/or Children: Do Female Academic Librarians Pay a Price for Motherhood?

Career Advancement and Writing about Women Librarians: A Literature Review

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