Faculty Status

“The claim to faculty status for academic librarians thus turns on the degree to which academic librarians are preservers, disseminators, generators of information. A casual review of the core areas of librarianship...reveals beyond reasonable doubt that academic librarians preserve, disseminate, and generate information, and that the culmination of these activities is in the interface between librarian and patron, as is the case with others on the campus who teach.” Schmidt, J. C. (1981). The academic librarian as faculty member: A rationale. Urba