ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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ACRL and ALA Support Academic Librarians

Resolutions and motions supporting librari­
ans in the California State University and Col­
leges, the University of California, and the Uni­
versity of Chicago were adopted by the Asso­
ciation of College and Research Libraries and 
the American Library Association at their meet­
ings in Las Vegas in June. The texts of these 
documents follow.

California State University 
and Colleges

Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors 
of the Association of College and Research Li­
braries, June 28, 1973, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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and Research Libraries, appointed a commit­
tee in 1969 chaired by Robert B. Downs, to 
investigate the situation of librarians in the 
California State University and Colleges 
(CSUC), and

WHEREAS, The Downs committee recom­
mended that library personnel problems in 
the CSUC would be resolved on all major is­
sues if all librarians in the system were grant­
ed faculty status, including, as soon as feasi­
ble, equality of salaries with other faculty, 
base salaries for the academic year with sup­
plemental stipends for summer work, time 
and flexible schedules to facilitate study, re­
search, and other professional activities, and 
the like, and

WHEREAS, The ACRL Standards for Faculty 
Status for College and University Librarians 
calls for full and meaningful faculty status, 
including promotion on the basis of academic 
proficiency and professional effectiveness, 
peer review, equal compensation with other 
faculty, academic year appointments, leaves, 
etc. on the same basis as other faculty, and

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ans Personnel Plan of CSUC, while not pro­
viding for the above perquisites, adds the 
unusual requirement of a second master’s de­
gree or its equivalent for reclassification of 
librarians,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, (1) That 
the ACRL Board of Directors formally com­
municate to the Chancellor of the CSUC sys­
tem the instances in which the new person­
nel document fails to conform with the 
ACRL Standards for Faculty Status for Col­
lege and University Librarians and the 
Downs report,
(2) That based on these differences the 
ACRL urge the suspension of the new per­
sonnel plan at CSUC, and

New Contract Agreement 
at Clarem ont Colleges

The Office and Professional Employ­
ees International Union, Local No. 30, 
AFL-CIO, CLC, representing employees 
of the Honnold Library of The Clare­
mont Colleges, reached an agreement on 
a two-year contract with college admin­
istrators July 6, 1973, after seven months 
of negotiations.

“The agreement which has been 
reached is equitable, and speaks for it­
self,” said Provost Howard Brooks.

Monthly minimum scales will increase 
from the current $411-491 range for 
library assistants to a $450-500 range. 
Beginning scale for librarians will de­
crease from $742 to $740 per month, al­
though no current employees will receive 
a pay cut. Senior librarians will go from 
$777 to $780. Minimum student rates 
will increase five cents per hour each 
year.

Annual increases in all classifications 
will be $15 per month in the second 
year.

Group health and life insurance and 
pension-retirement fund provisions are 
unchanged, as is the 37½-hour work 
week. Workers become eligible for vaca­
tions earlier under the new plan, and an 
annual “floating” holiday has been add­
ed. Cumulative sick leave has been 
lengthened.

A major thrust of the contract has 
been to codify existing informal arrange­
ments as to conference attendance, eligi­
bility for professional research leaves, 
leaves of absence, and time off for class 
or lecture attendance.

(3) That the Academic Status Committee 
offer its assistance in revising the plan to 
bring it into conformity with ACRL stan­
dards.

University of California

Resolution adopted by the Membership of 
the American Library Association, June 27, 
1973, Las Vegas, Nevada.

WHEREAS, Academic librarians have been 
discriminated against as a “women’s” profes­
sion in that the pay of librarians is below oth­
er nonteaching academic staff in most univer­
sities and colleges and

WHEREAS, University of California librarians 
are the lowest paid academic employees at 
the university; and

WHEREAS, The Assembly Ways and Means 
Committee of the California legislature has 
unanimously passed AB1412, introduced by 
the American Federation of Teachers, which 
would increase librarian pay by a minimum 
of 23 percent so as to eliminate such dis­
criminatory practices;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the 
American Library Association membership 
in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 1973,
(1) Supports all efforts to improve the pay 
of librarians and eliminate sex discrimination 
practices in the pay of librarians; and
(2) Hereby commends the California As­
sembly Ways and Means Committee for this 
historic first step toward eliminating such 
discrimination; and
(3) Urges the California legislature to pass 
AB 1412, and to communicate ALA’s support 
of AB1412 to Governor Ronald Reagan, As­
sembly Majority Leader Bob Moretti, Assem­
bly Minority Leader Robert Beverly, Assem­
blyman John Miller, the Bill’s sponsor, and 
to legislative leaders at appropriate times in 
the legislative process.

University of Chicago

Resolution adopted by the Membership of 
the American Library Association, June 27, 
1973, Las Vegas, Nevada.

WHEREAS, Freedom of expression is guaran­
teed by the Constitution of the United States, 
and is a right of particular interest to librari­
ans; and

WHEREAS, Librarians should be free to ex­
press controversial opinion without fear of 
punishment by their employers; and

WHEREAS, Many librarians at the University 
of Chicago have advocated the formation of 
a labor union for over two years; and

WHEREAS, On June 15, 1973, the positions



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of six professional librarians were abolished 
by the University of Chicago library adminis­
tration on fifteen minutes notice; and

WHEREAS, Four of these positions were held 
by persons most active in advocating the or­
ganization of a union; and

WHEREAS, These four librarians have an ag­
gregate seniority of thirty–two years; and

WHEREAS, Faculty and students have indi­
cated their opposition to the action of the li­
brary administration by formation of com­
mittees, picketing in protest, and by massive 
refusal to use the library on June 25, 1973; 
and

WHEREAS, Approximately ninety percent of 
the library staff refrained from appearing for 
work on Monday, June 25, 1973, in direct 
protest against these actions; and

WHEREAS, The defense of intellectual free­
dom is a responsibility of the profession, and

WHEREAS, The actions of the administration 
of the University of Chicago library in this 
matter raise serious questions of possible vio­
lations of the intellectual freedom of the li­
brarians involved;

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the 
membership of the American Library Asso­
ciation directs that a full and complete in­
vestigation of the University of Chicago li­
brary’s personnel policies and procedures be 
undertaken immediately by the ALA Com­
mittee on Mediation, Arbitration and In­
quiry, and directs this Committee to report 
by the Midwinter Meeting.

AND FURTHER, That the American Library 
Association strongly urges the University of 
Chicago library administration to reinstate 
the six discharged staff members to their po­
sitions without prejudice pending SCAMI ac­
tion.

University OF Chicago

Motion passed by the Board of Directors of 
the Association of College and B.esearch Librar­
ies, June 28, 1973, Las Vegas, Nevada.

That the President of ACRL communicate 
with the Chairman of SCMAI [ALA Staff 
Committee on Mediation, Arbitration and In­
quiry] regarding the University of Chicago Li­
brary action and controversy and that, as a part 
of the SCMAI investigation mandated by the 
ALA membership in meeting on June 27, 1973, 
consideration should be given to possible vio­
lation of the ACRL Standards for Faculty Sta­
tus for College and University Librarians. In ad­
dition, the good offices of the ACRL Commit­
tee on Academic Status should be offered in the 
resolution of this problem. ■ ■