On Becoming Faculty Librarians: Acculturation Problems and Remedies

W. Bede Mitchell; Bruce Morton

doi:10.5860/crl_53_05_379

On Becoming Faculty Librarians: Acculturation Problems and Remedies

W. Bede Mitchell, Bruce Morton

Emeriti, Retired, & In Memoriam (Libraries)

Montana State University - Bozeman

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Abstract

The acculturation of librarians to faculty librarian positions is compared and contrasted to the socialization process of the professoriate. Substantive differences in graduate library education and the attitudes it cultivates are discussed. Librarians are seen, for the most part, as being ill-prepared to assume peer roles within a university faculty. Suggestions are offered to remedy this dysfunctional pattern.

Original language	American English
Journal	College and Research Libraries
Volume	53
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5860/crl_53_05_379
State	Published - Sep 1 1992

Keywords

Academic librarians
Academic librarians-Faculty status
Faculty rank
Library education
Universities and colleges-Faculty

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Library and Information Science

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