ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL Announces 

Faculty Status Publication
ACRL’s Committee on Academic Status has 

compiled the basic source documents relating 
to faculty status for librarians in colleges and 
universities in a new publication, Faculty Sta­
tus for Academic Librarians: A History and Pol­
icy Statements, published by the American Li­
brary Association.

For over a decade ACRL has been involved 
in defining the standards for faculty status. Fac­
ulty Status for Academic Librarians: A History 
and Policy Statements brings together in one 
volume the association’s statements of policies 
and other supporting documents related to fac­
ulty status. Included are the nine-point Stan­
dards for Faculty Status for College and Uni­
versity Librarians covering such areas as pro­
fessional responsibility, college, university and 
library governance, tenure, promotion, and 
leaves. Criteria and procedures for appoint­
ment, promotion, and tenure are outlined in the 
Model Statement of Criteria and Procedures for

Appointment, Promotion in Academic Rank, 
and Tenure for College and University Librari­
ans. The Joint Statement on Faculty Status of 
College and University Librarians (1972) 
drafted by ACRL and representatives of the 
American Association of University Professors 
and the Association of American Colleges is 
also included.

In the publication is the definitive statement 
on the history of the development of faculty 
status which was prepared by the late Arthur 
M. McAnally, the first chairman of ACRL’s 
Committee on Academic Status.

The volume will serve as an information 
source for college and university administrators 
and teaching colleagues who question the posi­
tion of the library profession on the issue of 
faculty status. It is available for $3.50 from the 
Order Department, American Library Associa­
tion, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■  ■

Videocassettes Available
“Faculty Views on Library Instruction,” a 

panel which was among the highlights of the 
fifth annual Conference on Library Orientation 
held May 15-17, 1975, at Eastern Michigan 
University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, is now avail­
able on color videocassettes ( two reels) and is 
being distributed by the Association of College 
and Research Libraries as part of its program 
of making excellent audiovisual programs avail­
able to librarians and educators.

The annual conferences on library orienta­
tion, sponsored by EMU’s Center of Education­
al Resources, are an outgrowth of a Council on 
Library Resources–NEH library orientation 
grant.

According to Dr. Fred Rlum, director of the 
Center of Educational Resources, the 100-min- 
ute program includes individual presentations 
by each of the panelists, followed by discussion 
and a question period.

Members of the faculty panel are: Len Clark, 
philosophy professor at Earlham College; 
Jeanne Halpern, English instructor at the Uni­
versity of Michigan; William Harvey, biology 
professor at Earlham College; and Charles Mid­
dleton, history professor at the University of 
Colorado. Panel moderator is Hannelore Rader, 
orientation librarian at Eastern Michigan Uni­
versity.

The panel members address themselves to

problems confronting library users (both stu­
dents and faculty) in academic libraries, ways 
of improving library utilization, and the effects 
of changing trends in education on library in­
struction. They illustrate their comments with 
numerous examples from their personal experi­
ences with libraries and library instruction.

The videocassettes can be shown on any fl­
inch videocassette U–Matic player. Requests for 
borrowing the tape should be made on standard 
interlibrary loan request forms and addressed 
to the ALA Headquarters Library, 50 E. Huron 
St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■  ■

ACRL Membership
September 30, 1 9 7 5 ............ ............  9,390
September 30, 1974 ............ ............  13,637
September 30, 1973 ............ ............  12,869

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