Professors and Professions

McClelland, Charles E.

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“…The discourse of librarianship as a profession is strong in all the documents. McClelland's (1997) librarians and teaching faculty. The professoriate may be solidly black gown in their history and traditions, but teaching faculty are a broad and varied group, with plenty of white smock and a measure of blue collar.…”

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“…Huwe and Irving (2002) describe the University of California (UC) peer review system for librarians that is used at all UC campuses. They quote McClelland (1997) on the traditions that are present in the professoriate today, "university-magisterial (black gown), labor union solidarity (blue collar), and discipline-professional (white smock)" (Applicability to Other Settings section, para. 1).…”

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The Language of Academic Librarianship: The Discourse of Promotion and Tenure

Bolin¹

Advances in Library Administration and Organization

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This article examines the discourse of appointment, promotion, and tenure (APT) documents for academic librarians. Discourse analysis can illuminate the social role of language, social systems, and social practices.This qualitative research analyzes the APT documents for librarians from a group of US universities (n = 50) whose librarians are tenured faculty (n = 35). Linguistic features were examined to identify genre (text type) and register (language variety) characteristics.The documents showed strong relationships with other texts; vocabulary from the language of human resources (HR); grammatical characteristics such as nominalization; passive constructions; few pronouns; the "quasi-synonymy" of series of adjectives, nouns, or verbs; and expression of certainty and obligation. The documents have a sociolinguistic and social semiotic component. In using a faculty genre, librarians assert solidarity with other faculty, while the prominent discourse of librarians as practitioners detracts from faculty solidarity. This research can help academic librarians fulfill their obligations by understanding how values encoded in these documents reflect positive and negative approaches.Higher education and academic librarianship are in a state of flux. Understanding the discourse of these documents can help librarians encode appropriate goals and values. Little has been written on the discourse of librarianship. This is a contribution to the understanding of librarians as a discourse community and of significant communicative events.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%