id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12183 Smith, Eldred Academic Status for College and University Librarians--Problems and Prospects 1970-01-01 7 .pdf application/pdf 4190 219 49 College and Research Libraries ELDRED SMITH Academic Status for College and University Librarians- Problems and Prospects Academic librarians will achieve and deserve full academic status only after they cause changes in the bureaucratic structure of libraries and in library education, and when they provide professional service on a scholarly level. With the growing emphasis on individual study, libraries will be expected to provide such service to scholars and students who are be- coming less bibliographically self-suffi- cient even within their specialties.18 Moreover, as information developments make a moderate skill in library re- search almost a necessity for every edu- cated person, academic librarians must assume a more formal instructional role in their colleges and universities, teach- ing students at least its more rudimen- tary principles. cache/crl-12183.pdf txt/crl-12183.txt