The presence of the doctorate among small college library directors

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 400-408

  McCracken, Peter ^a  

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EID: 0034336970     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.61.5.400     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. W. Bede Mitchell and Mary Reichel, "Publish or Perish: A Dilemma for Academic Librarians?" College & Research Libraries 60 (May 1999): 232-43. Mitchell and Reichel studied scholarship at institutions classified by the Carnegie Foundation as Research I or II, Doctoral I or II, and Master's I or II. The current research focuses, instead, on Baccalaureate I institutions.
2. A cursory study of all directorship advertisements in College & Research Libraries News for 1998 and 1999 found that of ninety-two unique ads for directors of American academic libraries of any size, two required applicants to hold a Ph.D., seventeen stated that a Ph.D. was "desired" or "preferred," twelve required a second master's degree (after the MLS) or a Ph.D., seven preferred a second master's or a Ph.D., and twenty-six preferred candidates with an advanced degree after the MLS. Twenty-six did not mention additional educational requirements, and two sought candidates with either an MLS or a Ph.D.
3. Judith Tierney and Terry Mech, "Directors of Small College Libraries in the Northeast: Who Are They?" Technicalities 5 (Jan. 1985): 7-9.
4. Joel Clemmer, "The Liberal Arts College Library Director and the Collegiate Myth," Journal of Library Administration 24, no. 3 (1997): 73-88.
5. Julie O'Keeffe, "Small College Library Directors: Getting in the Door and Surviving on the Job," College & Research Libraries 59 (Mar. 1998): 140-53.
6. John Caldwell, "Degrees Held by Head Librarians of Colleges and Universities," College & Research Libraries 23 (May 1962): 227-28, 260.
7. Arthur M. McAnally and Robert B. Downs, "The Changing Role of Directors in University Libraries," College & Research Libraries 34 (Mar. 1973): 103-25.
8. William L. Cohn, "An Overview of ARL Directors, 1933-1973," College & Research Libraries 37 (Mar. 1976): 137.
9. Jerry L. Parsons, "Characteristics of Research Library Directors, 1958 and 1973," Wilson Library Bulletin 50 (Apr. 1976): 613-17.
10. Ronald Dale Karr, "The Changing Profile of University Library Directors, 1966-1981," College & Research Libraries 45 (July 1984): 283.
11. Ibid., 284.
12. William S. Wong and David S. Zubatsky, "The Tenure Rate of University Library Directors: A 1983 Survey," College & Research Libraries 46 (Jan. 1985): 69-77.
13. Marcia J. Myers and Paula T. Kaufman, "ARL Directors: Two Decades of Change," College & Research Libraries 52 (May 1991): 241-54.
14. O'Keeffe, "Small College Library Directors."
15. Ibid., 151.
16. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, A Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 1994 Edition (Princeton, N.J.: Carnegie Foundation, 1994).
17. National Center for Education Statistics, Preliminary 1996 Academic Library Data [subset of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System] (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997). Available online at: http://nces.ed.gov/lpeds/aclib96.html. Barron's Profiles of Amecan Colleges, 22nd ed. (Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's, 1997).
18. National Center for Education Statistics, Preliminary 1996 Academic Library Data [subset of Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System] (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997). Available online at: http://nces.ed.gov/lpeds/aclib96.html. Barron's Profiles of Amecan Colleges, 22nd ed. (Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's, 1997).
19. The other fields in which doctorates were earned are American studies, history, classical philology, religion, philosophy, and English and American literature.
20. See note 2, above, for specific results data.
21. James Axtell, "Twenty-five Reasons to Publish," Journal of Scholarly Publishing 29 (Oct. 1997): 6.
22. Peter H. Henderson, Julie E. Clarke, and Cynthia Woods, Summary Report 1996: Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Pr., 1998), 67.