ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries College & Research libraries news No. 11, D ecem ber 1971 ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 32, No. 7 ACRL Nominees for Offices 1972/73 VICE-PRESIDENT (PRESIDENT-ELECT) Richard L. Ducote, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 Norman E. Tanis, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA 91324 DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE Warren N. Boes, Syracuse University, Syra­ cuse, NY 13210 Raymond A. Bohling, University of Minne­ sota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Frederick Duda, Columbia University Li­ braries, New York, NY 10027 H. Joanne Harrar, University of Georgia Li­ braries, Athens, GA 30601 COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION Vice-chairman (Chairman-elect) Father Jovian Lang, O.F.M., Quincy College, Quincy, IL 62301 Richard C. Quick, State University of New York, Geneseo, NY 14454 Secretary Mrs. Carol C. Henderson, George Mason College of the University of Virginia, Fairfax, VA 22030 Mrs. Beverly M. Johnson, San Diego State College, San Diego, CA 92115 JUNIOR COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION Vice-chairman (Chairman-elect) Mrs. Louise Giles, Macomb County Com­ munity College, Warren, MI 48093 W. Christian Sizemore, South Georgia Col­ lege, Douglas, GA 31533 Secretary Jo Ellen Flagg, Forest Park Community Col­ lege, St. Louis, MO 63130 Mrs. Rosemary Henderson, Coffeyville Com­ munity Junior College, Coffeyville, KS 67337 RARE BOOKS A ND MANUSCRIPTS SECTION Vice-chairman (Chairman-elect) Evert Volkersz, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, L.I., NY 11790 Ruth Salisbury, Syracuse University, Syra­ cuse, NY 13210 MEMBER-AT-LARGE (EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE) Mr. D. W. Krummel, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 Richard S. Wormser, Rare Books, Wolfpits Road, Bethel, CT 06801 SUBJECT SPECIALISTS SECTION Vice-chairman (Chairman-elect) Wayne Gossage, Bank Street College of E d­ College & Research Libraries is published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 17 times yearly—6 bim onthly journal issues and II monthly, combining July- August, News issues at 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, Mo. 65251. Subscription, $10.00 a year or, to members of the division, $5.00, included in dues. C irculation and advertising office: American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, III. 60611. Second-class postage paid a t Fulton, Missouri 65251. News editor: Michael Herbison, Library, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907. Editor: Richard M. Dougherty, School o f Library Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210. President, ACRL: Joseph H. Reason. Executive Secretary, ACRL: J. 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Kellam, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30601 Ed. note: Four units did not submit slates in time for publication; these will be published in future issues. ■ ■ ACRL Membership October 31, 1971 11,886 October 31, 1970 11,976 October 31, 1969 ............. 13,769 BUSINESS • COMMERCE • ECONOMICS Specialists in Out-of-Print B ooks in the Social Sciences W ant Lists Searched C ollections F u lfilled — Catalogs Issued HIVE OF INDUSTRY, BOOKSELLERS B ox 6 0 2 Easton, P en n a. 1 8 0 4 2 t o t I w b t d p i g t a u w c t g A CAD EM IC STATUS Dear Sir: The ACRL was wise, in my opinion, to ap­ prove all elements of the standards for faculty status except for the educational requirement. Probably the best method of filling this gap would be to state that: “The determination of degrees to be regarded as terminal or appropri­ ate should be vested with the library faculty, subject to the approval of the president.” [Carl Hintz, “Criteria for Appointment to and Promo­ tion in Academic Rank,” CRL 29:346 (Sept. 1968).] Other associations do not try to set ed­ ucational requirements for members of their professions employed in colleges and universi­ ties, leaving that task to individual faculties. Acceptance of this principle would also dovetail with the emphasis the standards place upon the library faculty. Finally, it could be argued that educational requirements should vary from in­ stitution to institution. A “two master’s” princi­ ple would be much more appropriate for a uni­ versity where most members of the teaching faculties have a Ph.D. than for a junior college where they will generally have one master’s. This is a reasonable approach, although I am opposed to setting rigid educational standards for librarians at any level until the question has received much more serious and continued a t­ tention. One of the problems of the literature on fac­ ulty status for librarians is its insularity. Most citations are to other articles in library publica­ tions, not to studies of the workings of academ­ ic faculties or of the appointment and promo­ ion of college and university teachers in prac­ tice. Advocates of faculty status for librarians ften adopt an idealized picture of professors. Their focus seems to be on the university where he Ph.D. is required in most departments and where publication is really expected. So far as know, there have been no articles written hich compare academic librarians with mem­ ers of departments, such as music and archi­ ecture, where the master’s degree is terminal. Much can be written about the kinds of stan­ dards library faculties may formulate. Using the “two master’s” standard is unfortunate. One of the long-standing problems in library personnel evelopment has been the preponderance of eople with subject backgrounds in the human­ ties and the shortage of persons with under­ raduate and graduate degrees in the social, natural, and physical sciences. The “two mas­ er’s” standard is likely to perpetuate or even ccentuate this. Much in the literature on fac­ lty status for librarians seems to imply th at as e obtain it, we shall all become subject spe­ ialists. Since the need for administrators and hose with some knowledge of computers is reat, such articles may give many academic