id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12508 De Priest, Raleigh The Inordinate Passion for Status 1973-03-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 5280 223 56 The author analyzes critically the work of several writers who believe, in varying degrees, that librarians exhibit an excessive, even droll, con- cern for faculty status. WHILE THE LAST DECADE has witnessed considerable articulation among li- brarians in favor of faculty status, there have been opponents as well: Ken- neth Kister, who describes what he sees as librarians' attempt to imitate the fac- ulty and their blurring of the distinc- tion between librarianship and teaching at a time when they ought to be earning their status .as cache/crl-12508.pdf txt/crl-12508.txt