The opportunity costs of faculty status for academic librarians

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 258-264

  Kingma, Bruce R ^a   McCombs, Gillian M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 21844506154     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_56_03_258     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. William J. Baumol and Alan S. Blinder, Economics: Principles and Policy, 5th ed. (New York: Harcourt, 1991), 6.
2. Barbara B. Moran, "Academic Libraries: The Changing Knowledge Centers of Colleges and Universities," ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Research Report No. 8 (Washington D.C.: ASHE, 1984), 46.
3. Barbara B. Moran, "The Unintended Revolution in Academic Libraries: 1939-1989 and Beyond," College & Research Libraries 50 (Jan. 1989): 25-40.
4. One article that does touch on the costs of faculty status, although its main focus is to determine whether or not faculty status improves the earnings of academic librarians, is that of Richard W. Meyer, "Earnings Gains through the Institutionalized Standard of Faculty Status," Library Administration & Management 4 (Fall 1990): 184-93.
5. "Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians," prepared by Larry R. Oberg for the ACRL Academic Status Committee, College & Research Libraries News 53 (May 1992): 317-18.
6. For a discussion of the varied surveys on how many and which libraries, see note 1 in William K. Black and Joan M. Leysen, "Scholarship and the Academic Librarian," College & Research Libraries 55 (May 1994): 229-11.
7. Deborah Rinderknocht, "New Norms for Reference Desk Staffing Adequacy: AComparative Study," College & Research Libraries 53 (Sept. 1992): 429-36.
8. Meyer, "Earning Gains. ".
9. Meyer, "Earning Gains."Ibid.
10. Rachel Applegate, "Deconstructing Faculty Status: Research and Assumptions," Journal of Academic Librarianship 19 (July 1993): 158-64.
11. Thomas G. English, "Librarian Status in the Eighty-nine U.S. Academic Institutions of the Association of Research Libraries: 1982" College & Research Libraries 44 (May 1983): 199-211.
12. Janet Krampart and Aara DiFelice, "A Review of Faculty Status Surveys, 1971-1984," Journal of Academic Librarianship 13 (Mar. 1987): 14-18.
13. Association of Research Libraries, ARL Annual Salary Survey (Washington D.C.: ARL, 1992).
14. Association of Research Libraries, ARL Statistics (Washington D.C.: ARL, 1992).
15. Jack Siggins, comp., Academic Status for Librarians in ARL Libraries, SPEC Kit 182 (Washington, D.C.: ARL, Office of Management Services, 1992).
16. Ordinary least squares were used to estimate the coefficients in these equations. To determine if a coefficient is statistically significant from zero, the coefficient must be divided by the standard error. This ratio is a t-statistic that can be checked for statistical significance, using a table for the student's t distribution. See G. S. Maddala, Econometrics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977) for further insight.
17. Charles B. Lowry, "The Status of Faculty Status for Academic Libraries: A Twenty-Year Perspective," College & Research Libraries 54 (Mar. 1993): 163-72.
18. Irene Hoadley, "Faculty Status: 2001. Results of an ACRL-Sponsored Think Tank," College & Research Libraries News 54 (June 1993): 338-40.
19. See the response by Beth J. Shapiro, "The Myths Surrounding Faculty Status for Librarians," College & Research Libraries News 54 (Nov. 1993), 562-63, .
20. and Jean A. Major's article "Mature Librarians and the University Faculty: Factors Contributing to Librarians' Acceptance as Colleagues," College & Research Libraries 54 (Nov. 1993), 463-69.
21. Shapiro's contentions were described as "wrongheaded" by Fred Hill, "Faculty Status for Librarians: A Response," College & Research Libraries News 55 (Jan. 1994): 26.
22. Donald E. Riggs, "Losing the Foundation of Understanding," American Libraries 25 (May 1994): 449.
23. Lowry, "The Status of Faculty Status. ".
24. Diane J. Cimbala, "The Scholarly Information Center: An Organizational Model" College & Research Libraries 48 (Sept. 1987): 393-97.
25. Anne Woodsworth and Theresa Malone, Reinvesting in the Information Job Family: Context, Changes, New Jobs, and Models for Evaluation and Compensation CAUSE Paper No.11 (Boulder, Colo.: CAUSE, 1993).
26. Applegate, "Deconstructing. ".
27. Fred Batt, "Faculty Status for Academic Librarians: Justified or Just a Farce?" Issues in Academic Librarianship: Views and Case Studies for the 1980's and 1990's, ed. Peter Spyers-Duran and Thomas W. Mann, Jr. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985).