College and Research Libraries Letters To the Editor: (') It ~. In "Labor Unions or Professional Organizations: Which Have Our First Loyalty?" (C&RL 53:331-41, July 1992), two reasons cited for nonmembership in unions are "unprofessional to be a union member" and "membership too costly." Few librarians control fees, salaries, and policies or form partnerships in the manner of doctors or attorneys. Bargaining individually with a university to attain professional working conditions or salaries is ineffective. In two previous nonunion jobs I was paid barely half of what I currently earn for essentially the same duties. Is it professional to accept clerical wages? In the second job, the director told me that she wanted "good little bureaucrats, not professionals," and I was sometimes expected to engage in blatantly unethical conduct. I will never again accept a job without the protection or a union grievance procedure. As a department head, I appreciate unions because rules and procedures are clear and established. "Membership too costly'' is selfish and irresponsible. You can thank dues-paying union members for salary improvements, good benefit packages, access to sabbaticals and nine- to ten-month contracts, etc. Is it really credible for people who benefit from unions but refuse to pay their fair share to complain that unions are somehow "unprofessional"? ''The graying of the profession" is a serious concern which may be exacerbated by union success. CSU and UC librarians are well paid by library standards, and the "golden shackle" discourages librarians who might benefit from a change of scenery. The answer to this problem and one way to attract young people to librarianship is to make professional level pay the national norm through collective bargaining. Having ALA pass a resolution won't do it. Empower yourself: join or form a union. To the Editor: JIM DWYER Head, Bibliographic Services Department California State University, Chico I was delighted to read the article by Buchanan, Rupp-Serranno, and LaGrange (C&RL 53:307-18, July 1992), entitled ''The Effectiveness of a Projected Computerized Presentation .... " This has chronicled a testing process which is easily duplicated by any of us to test ourselves, and uses a technique, Show Partner F /X, which enables sophisticated presentation within a classroom. The article is well written and well researched, and contributes to the body of BI literature. It also has a fatal flaw which tends to negate the results. Comparison is made between the "viewer'' audience, and the "non viewer'' audience. Conclusions are reached which are interesting to all BI people. The flaw is that 66 percent of the "viewers" and only 30 percent of the "nonviewers" are sophisticated in library use by reason of their being nonfreshman. It is fairly obvious to any librarian that an upperclassman is bound to be somewhat more experienced in library use than a freshman. The writers know this and describe the reason for the mix on p. 313. The tables do not separate the two classes of students, although the data are there to be seen. Results should have been tabulated on the basis of experiences and nonexperiences, viewers and nonviewers. Had this been done, the results might have been somewhat different. Certainly the numbers of nonexperienced freshmen would have been much lower, and the results might have 567 568 College & Research Libraries November 1992 been less exciting and perhaps less trustworthy. I am surprised that a refereed journal allowed this to slip through. I have written to the authors suggesting that they retabulate their results or retry the study with a larger group of true freshmen. To the Editor: VALERIE JACKSON FEINMAN Coordinator of Library Instruction Adelphi University Libraries We in the Quaker Collection, Magill Library, Haverford College, have taken the idea of the internships mentioned by Otis A. Chadley in "Addressing Cultural Diversity in Academic and Research Libraries" (C&RL 53:206-14, May 1992) one step earlier. Last year we began a summer internship for minority high school students in the Quaker Collection. We had three interns last year and will have two this year. The internships are intended to introduce the students to the various kinds of work that are done in an academic library and to provide extra summer help for us. The four-week internship is structured so that the students spend time in informal lecture situations as well as working on constructive and/or educational tasks involv- ing library materials. The lectures-really talks-are given by members of the library staff or college faculty who describe their roles in the library. Last year the educational project given to the interns involved their doing some investigation, using library resources, into the Harlem Renaissance. There are many very useful projects that the interns have helped and can help us with, including rehousing pamphlets and barcod- ingbooks. It's too early to know if we have "created" librarians, and two people per year are admittedly not a massive number, but this level of intimacy allows us and the young people a pretty high-quality and satisfying library experience. EMMAJONES LAPSANKSY Curator, Quaker Collection Magill Library Haverford College Be aPR Star! enter the 1993 JOHN COTTON DANA LIBRARY PUBLIC RELATIONS AWARDS CONTEST I F YOU'VE DONE an out-standingjobofmakingyour community more aware of your library, the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Awards Contest can tell the world about your efforts. Your entry will be consid- ered among those from librar- ies of all types, sizes, and budg- ets. 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