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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 Status for Academic Librarians: A History and Policy Statements, published by the American Library Association.

For over a decade ACRL has been involved in defining the standards for faculty status. Faculty 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 faculty status. Included are the nine-point Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians covering such areas as professional responsibility, college, university and library governance, tenure, promotion, and leaves. Criteria and procedures for appointment, 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 Librarians.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 position of the library profession on the issue of faculty status. It is available for $3.50 from the Order Department, American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■