Implications for academic libraries

Beckman, Margaret

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Title

Implications for academic libraries

Author(s)

Beckman, Margaret

Issue Date

1975

Keyword(s)

• Librarians’ unions
• Collective bargaining
• Academic libraries

Abstract

This paper may present a more restricted view of the academic library interface with collective bargaining than might have been anticipated, primarily for three reasons. First, I am more familiar with the Canadian academic library situation than with the American, although I have studied the pattern which appears to be emerging in American libraries. In addition, I am convinced that if academic library administrators had realized at any point within the past ten years that library management is a unique and demanding scientific discipline and had borrowed some of the techniques and methodologies being practiced in the business community, they could have been in a position of bargaining from strength rather than from weakness. Finally, I am firmly committed to the belief that academic librarians should achieve their status and any ensuing rights and privileges through their own merit, and not by accepting a system designed for another profession with similar, but not identical, objectives and requirements.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (20th : 1974)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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