The ACRL conferences: A profile of its presenters

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-118

  Fennewald, Joseph ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247489858     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.68.2.107     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (57)

1. Association of College & Research Libraries, "Past National Conferences." Available online at www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/ nationalconference/pastconferences.htm. [Accessed 25 October 2005].
2. Caroline Coughlin and Pamela Snelson, "Searching for Research in ACRL Conference Papers," Journal of Academic Librarianship 9, no. 1 (Mar. 1983): 24-25;
3. Pamela Snelson and S. Anita Talar, "Content Analysis of ACRL Conference Papers," College & Research Libraries 52, no. 5 (Sept. 1991): 469-71.
4. These studies found that approximately one-third of the papers met selected research criteria and suggest that most papers reflect best practices. Harold B. Shill, review of Continuity and Transformation: The Promise of Confluence: Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, ed. Richard AmRhein, Journal of Academic Librarianship 22, no. 6 (Nov. 1996): 470. Shill comments that the papers "included a large number of case studies."
5. C. M. Boissonnas, "Katina's Baby: The Charleston Acquisitions Conference at 15," Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 20, no. 3 (1996): 284.
6. Coughlin and Snelson, "Searching," 21-26; Snelson and Talar, "Content Analysis," 466-72.
7. Joseph Fennewald, "Perished or Published: The Fate of Presentations from the Ninth ACRL Conference," College & Research Libraries (Nov. 2005).
8. Anne L. Buchanan, Edward A. Goedeken, and Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel, "Scholarly Communication Among Academic Librarians: An Analysis of Six ACRL Proceedings," Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 14, no. 2 (1996): 1-15.
9. Thomas E. Nisonger, "Authorship in Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory," Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 20, no. 4 (1996): 395-419.
10. Gloria S. Cline, "College & Research Libraries: Its First Forty Years," College & Research Libraries 43, no. 3 (May 1982): 208-32;
11. Paul Metz, "A Statistical Profile of College & Research Libraries," College & Research Libraries 50, no. 1 (Jan. 1989): 42-47;
12. James L. Terry, "Authorship in College & Research Libraries Revisited: Gender, Institutional Affiliation, Collaboration," College & Research Libraries 57, no. 4 (Jul. 1996): 377-83;
13. Peter Hernon, Alien Smith, and Mary Bailey Croxen, "Publication in College & Research Libraries: Accepted, Rejected, and Published Papers, 1990-1991," College & Research Libraries 54, no. 4 (Jul. 1993): 303-21.
14. John N. Olsgaard and Jane Kinch Olsgaard, "Authorship in Five Library Periodicals," College & Research Libraries 41, no. 1 (Jan. 1980): 49-53;
15. Paula D. Watson, "Production of Scholarly Articles by Academic Librarians and Library School Faculty," College 61 Research Libraries 46, no. 4 (Jul. 1985): 334-42;
16. John M. Budd and Charles A. Seavey, "Characteristics of Journal Authorship by Academic Librarians," College & Research Libraries 51, no. 9 (Sept. 1990): 463-70;
17. Lois Buttlar, "Analyzing the Library Periodical Literature: Content and Authorship," College & Research Libraries 52, no. 1 (Jan. 1991): 38-53;
18. Mickey Zemon and Alice Harrison Bahr, "An Analysis of Articles by College Librarians," College & Research Libraries 59, no. 9 (Sept. 1998): 422-32;
19. William Fisher, "When Write Is Wrong: Is All Our Professional Literature on the Same Page?" Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 23, no. 1 (1999): 61-72.
20. Olsgaard and Olsgaard, "Authorship," 50.
21. National Center for Education Statistics, "Library Statistics Program: Academic Libraries." Available online at http://nces.ed.gov/ surveys/libraries/academic.asp. [Accessed July 2004].
22. Association of College & Research Libraries, "What Is the Association of College & Research Libraries? Web Survey Results." Available to ACRL members online at www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/whatisacrl/ whatacrl.htm. [Accessed 25 October 2005].
23. Terry, "Authorship," 379.
24. Janice C. Fennell, ed., Building on the First Century: Proceedings of the fifth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1989), xvii.
25. There have been more authors than papers because so many have been coauthored.
26. Association of College & Research Libraries, "What Is the Association of College & Research Libraries? 2003-2004 Annual Report." Available online at www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/whatisacrl/0304annualreport. htm. [Accessed 25 October 2005].
27. ACRL, "Past National Conferences," online.
28. Of the 700 academic librarians, there were, amazingly, 468 unique occupational titles. With such variation, it was possible that there were errors in placing people in the correct sub-category.
29. Administrators include: Directors, Deans, Assistant or Associate Directors. It also includes Head of Technical Services, as the position oversees several library departments.
30. Subject specialists include a wide variety of subject areas, such as Arts & Humanities Librarians, Biology Librarian, Education Librarian, and Music Librarian.
31. Circulation librarians include: Public Services, Access Services, and User Services.
32. Mary Jo Lynch, ALA Office for Research and Statistics, "Library Directors: Gender and Salary (1999)." Available online at www.ala.org/ala/hrdr/libraryempresources/librarydirectors.htm. [Accessed 25 October 2005]. This survey identified that 57% of the academic library directors are women.
33. It was found that 67% of academic librarians, 59% of faculty in library schools, and 45% of faculty in other disciplines who presented papers were women.
34. Mary Jo Lynch, "Library Directors," online.
35. Terry, "Authorship," 381.
36. Alice Harrison Bahr and Mickey Zemon, "Collaborative Authorship in the Journal Literature: Perspectives for Academic Librarians Who Wish to Publish," College & Research Libraries 61, no. 5 (Sept. 2000): 415.
37. James Moody, "The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network: Disciplinary Cohesion from 1963 to 1999." American Sociological Review 69 (Apr. 2004): 213-38.
38. Noriko Kara, Paul Solomon, Seung-Lye Kim, and Diane H. Sonnenwald, "An Emerging View of Scientific Collaboration: Scientists' Perspectives on Collaboration and Factors That Impact Collaboration," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54, no. 10 (2003): 952-65;
39. Richard L. Hart, "Collaborative Publication by University Librarians: An Exploratory Study," Journal of Academic Librarianship 26, no. 2 (Mar. 2000): 94-99;
40. Richard L. Hart, "Co-authorship in the Academic Library Literature: A Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors," Journal of Academic Librarianship 26, no. 5 (Sept. 2000): 339-45.
41. ACRL, "2003-2004 Annual Report," online.
42. Hemon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 311; Fisher, "When Write," 66; Metz, "Statistical Profile," 44; Olsgaard and Olsgaard, "Authorship," table 4; Watson, "Production," 337.
43. Buttlar, "Analyzing," 42-43; Hernon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 311.
44. Hernon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 311.
45. Hernon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 308; Cline, "College," 214; Budd and Seavey, "Characteristics," 468; Watson, "Production," 338.
46. Cline, "College," 213.
47. Buttlar, "Analyzing," 44; Olsgaard and Olsgaard, "Authorship," table 5; using census regions Hernon, Smith, and Croxen found that 35% of the C&RL authors from 1980-91 were from the Midwest (Hernon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 311).
48. Zemon and Bahr's study combined authors of the C&RL and JAL and found that there was a 5% increase in college librarians publishing between 1986-91 and 1992-96. (Zemon and Bahr, "Analysis," 425-26).
49. Metz, "Statistical Profile," 44; Terry, "Authorship," 380-83.
50. Metz, "Statistical Profile," 44; Terry, "Authorship," 380-81.
51. Cline, "College," 215; Metz, "Statistical Profile," 44; Terry, "Authorship," 381.
52. Hernon, Smith, and Croxen, "Publication," 311.
53. See: Coughlin & Snelson, "Searching," 25; M. Carl Drott, "Reexamining the Role of Conference Papers in Scholarly Communication," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46, no. 4 (May 1995): 301;
54. William Miller, review of Energies for Transition: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, ed. Danuta A. Nitecki, Journal of Academic Librarianship 12, no. 4 (Sept. 1986): 235;
55. J. C. Rowley, "The Conference Literature: Savory or Acrid?" in Conference Literature: Its Role in the Distribution of Information, ed. Gloria J. Zamora and Martha C. Adamson (Mariton, N. J.: Learned Information, 1981), 11-21.
56. Larry Hardesty, review of Academic Libraries: Myths and Realities: Proceedings of the Third National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, ed. Suzanne C. Dodson and Gary L. Menges, College & Research Libraries 46, no. 5 (Sept. 1985): 442.
57. Ethel Auster and Donna C. Chan, "Reference Librarians and Keeping Up-to-Date," Reference & User Services Quarterly 44, no. 1 (fall 2004): 59.