Showing papers in "The Library Quarterly in 1987"

Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media. Michael Parenti

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Job satisfaction in libraries: a replication'

Abstract: This investigation replicates an earlier study on job satisfaction in the work setting. The present findings corroborate the previous work. Significant variations in job satisfaction occur among functional units in libraries and among occupational groups in libraries.

Rating Higher Education Programs: The Case of the 1986 White Survey

Abstract: Analyse critique de l'enquete White, menee en 1980 et 1986, aupres des universites et ecoles de bibliothecaires americaines pour les classer en fonction de leurs programmes d'enseignement de bibliotheconomie

Attempts to Deal with the "Crisis in Cataloging" at the Library of Congress in the 1940's.

Abstract: This article provides a review of the ten-year period at the Library of Congress (LC) during which attempts to deal with the "crisis in cataloging" set the stage for the profound changes in Anglo-American cataloging theory and rules that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s. The review centers around the previously unpublished report of the Librarian's Committee, which recommended reorganization, simplified cataloging, cooperative cataloging, changes in personnel policies, and changes in methods of cost analysis. Each of these recommendations is examined in detail, and the results of implementation are traced through the decade that followed.

University Library Book Budgets, 1860, 1910, and 1960

Abstract: The hypothesis of this study is that, when the major relevant variables are taken into consideration, university library book budgets in Germany and the United States in the mid-twentieth century were no greater than and may have been smaller than those of considerably earlier periods. The quantifiable variables considered are the amounts of annual book and serial production; the cost of books; the number of courses offered by the university; the number of faculty; and the number of students. Ten major German and thirteen major American universities were selected for the study. Data for the German institutions were gathered and compared for 1860 and 1960, and for the American universities for 1910 and 1960. Percentage increases in the seven variables for the German institutions between the two years ranged from 138 percent (cost of national book production) to 1,054 percent (number of students). For the American universities, the increases ranged from 11 percent (annual national book production) to 418 pe...

The King Report on Library Education: Three Perspectives.

Abstract: These are times of dramatic change in the scope and content of education for library and information science. Graduates of programs in the field now find employment in a broad range of information activities. While libraries, of course, still are the employers of most of the graduates of accredited programs, publishers, the information industry, entrepreneurs, government, and industry in general are employing increasing numbers of graduates of schools of library and information science. At the same time, curricula of those schools have had to expand to accommodate new information technologies and areas of specialization, and the demands of new jobs and employers. This provides the context for the study carried out by King Research under contract from the U.S. Department of Education, of which this book is the final report. Its purpose, as indicated by its title, was to identify the professional competencies that education should encompass, given those new directions; the results are presented in quite overwhelming and, unfortunately, redundant detail. The redundancies reflect both the nature of a contractual report and the methodology used. But the report should have been thoroughly edited before being published as a book; it desperately needs careful, professional information work. However, despite the redundancies, this is an important contribution and should be carefully read by all who are responsible for programs of professional education. The conceptual structure it presents and its emphases on professional competencies provide useful supports for curriculum development and evaluation. The book consists of six chapters and five appendices, with nearly sixty charts, tables, and figures. Chapter 1, along with appendix 2, provides a review of \"the information environment.\" First, there is a

A Critical Examination of the 1927 Proposed Classifications and Compensation Plan for Library Positions by the American Library Association

Abstract: In 1927, the American Library Association (ALA) Committee on the Classification of Library Personnel issued a job classification and compensation plan for librarianship. The plan was the first attempt to identify job duties and minimum qualifications of library workers for the entire profession. Based on a survey of 162 libraries of all types, the plan established more than 180 job classes. The content of the plan reflects confusion, especially over the minimum education and training required to perform library jobs, and there were additional problems with the questionnaire and the representativeness of the sample. But despite its shortcomings, the plan demonstrates that librarianship was using some of the most current management techniques available and confronting personnel problems that are still debated in librarianship today.

Main Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign owns or has on permanent loan about 175 medieval manuscripts or fragments of manuscripts, divided into three distinct collections [1-2]. By far the largest number is kept in the rare book room in the main library. A substantial number is located in the World Heritage Museum in Lincoln Hall, and three leaves are found in the \"medieval\" room of the Krannert Art Museum. The last two collections are not well known, and unfortunately, no complete and current inventory of the museum's holdings is readily accessible. The purpose of the present survey, then, is to offer a brief history of manuscript acquisition at the university, to touch on the most unusual manuscripts in the rare book room, and to make scholars aware of the range and depth of the smaller collections.

Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago

Abstract: Historique des collections de ces deux bibliotheques universitaires de l'Illinois; puis presentation detaillee des sous-collections specialisees; ces riches collections de manuscripts medievaux comptent des ouvrages du debut du 12eme siecle