id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12314 Smith, Eldred The Case for Faculty Status for Academic Librarians (Book Review) 1971-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2122 95 50 As the primary argu- ment developed by the largest and most influential professional organization repre- senting academic librarians, during a dec- ade of vigorous growth in libraries and li- brary services, and for a goal toward which some thousands of academic librarians have demonstrated very strong interest, this monograph represents a serious fail- ure not only of intention but also of re- sponsibility. In fact, the most illuminating and thoughtful of these studies (The Status of Librarians in Four Year State Colleges and Universities) draws quite a different conclusion: that only a small minority of academic librarians now have full faculty status, although a majority seem to believe that they do. cache/crl-12314.pdf txt/crl-12314.txt