Tenure for the Academic Librarian

A Typology of Librarian Status at Land Grant Universities

“…3 Discussions such as those, and others from the early and mid-1960s, including J. Forgotson, 4 J. F. Harvey, 5 David C. Weber, 6 Faye M. Blake, 7 and Robert B. Downs, 8 explore the issues of librarians' education, responsibilities, and professional identities. This discussion came to a head in the late 1960s, when significant social changes and their effect on higher education gave academic librarians the impetus to push harder for more recognition and respect, as discussed by Judith A. Segal.…”

Academic Librarianship: Professional Strivings and Political Realities

“…47 , 48 Blake presents the case for giving tenure to academic librarians 49 and quotes the formal statement on tenure published by the AAUP in 1940 as follows :…”