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QUALIFIED WOMEN LIST

The ALA—SRRT Task Force on Women is compiling a roster of women qualified to fill administrative and specialist positions in libraries. This list will be sent upon request to employers who are seeking to hire women librarians. Women who are interested in being included in the list should send a one-page resume to Margaret Myers, Graduate School of Library Service, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.

ACRL Membership

March 31, 1972 10.395

March 31, 1971 10,101

March 31, 1970 9,892

MEMBERSHIP LEVY FOR AN OFFICE FOR ACADEMIC STATUS

In December 1971 an ad hoc committee composed of the chairmen- elect of the five subsections was appointed by President Reason “to investigate the possibility of levying additional membership dues on the ACRL members to finance the proposed Academic Status Office.” The appointment of the committee resulted from the action of the Board of Directors at their meeting of June 24, 1971, at which they considered a resolution adopted at the ACRL Membership Meeting of the same date. The resolution instructed the Board to try to obtain funding from the ALA Budget for an Office for Academic Status, but if such funding were not forthcoming, it was resolved that ACRL secure the necessary financing of the office by imposing a fee of five dollars ($5.00) upon each personal member and ten dollars ($10.00) upon each organizational member.

The ACRL Committee on Academic Status outlined a program for the office as follows:

1. Collect information relating to the status of academic librarians across the country.

2. Provide information and assistance to academic librarians to achieve academic status.

3. Carry out an educational program regarding the rights and prerogatives of academic librarians.

4. Enter into mediation, arbitration, and inquiries regarding the rights and responsibilities of academic librarians.

5. Enforce effective sanctions established by ACRL which can be invoked for the protection of academic librarians.

The Ad Hoc Committee recommended that a poll of ACRL members be taken as early as possible to determine the reaction of the total ACRL membership to an assessment as called for in the resolution of June 24, 1971. Membership is therefore asked to express its opinion on this matter. Please return the ballot to the ACRL Executive Secretary by June 1,1972.

See verso for the full resolution and the ballot.

WHEREAS, the achievement of academic status for all academic librarians is a pressing need, and

WHEREAS, it has been demonstrated that those librarians who have academic status may, without adequate assistance, lose that status, and

WHEREAS, the ACRL Board of Directors has voted to establish an Office for Academic Status at ACRL headquarters to provide the needed services and assistance for the achievement and retention of academic status by academic librarians, and

WHEREAS, it is obvious that the proposed Program of Action for Mediation, Arbitration and Investigation will not meet all the needs of academic librarians,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT the ACRL Membership Meeting instruct the Board of Directors to assure the establishment of the Office for Academic Status without delay by securing full funding for this office in the 1971-72 budget, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, failing to achieve this funding through allotment from the ALA, the ACRL impose a fee of five dollars ($5.00) upon each of its personal members and ten dollars ($10.00) upon each of its institutional members, as provided in the ALA Bylaws, Article VI, Section 6 (c), the proceeds of this assessment to be used exclusively to support the establishment and operation of an Office for Academic Status.

Resolution adopted at the ACRL Membership Meeting June 24, 1971, Dallas, Texas.

For additional information, see CRL News for September 1971, p.231- 33, 244; also April 1972, 83-85.

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