FACULTY STATUSIN FLORIDA - by John N. DePew

Oct 13, 2026

FACULTY STATUSIN FLORIDA examines the standards governing faculty standing for college and university librarians, tracing adoption by the Association of College and Research Libraries and subsequent endorsements by state, regional, and national groups, including the Florida Library Association. It reviews historical concerns dating back to the late 19th century, highlights key publications and clarifications in the early 1970s, and explains how acceptance of the standards supported faculty status attainment or retention across multiple states, with illustrative outcomes.

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# FACULTY STATUSIN FLORIDA by JohnN.DePewFSU Library School andVice-president FloridaLibrary Association Six and one-half years have passedsince the membership of the Association ofCollege and Research Libraries adopted its"Standards for Faculty Status for Collegeand University Librarians"at the annualconference of the American LibraryAssociationin Dallas.Sincethenover fortystate,regional,and national library andeducational associations have endorsed thestatement.The Florida Library Associa-tion gave its endorsement in September,1973. Concern for faculty or academie statushas been with us for almost a century.In1878,H.A.Sawtelle wrote that librariansshould be ealled professors because of theteaching skills required in trainingstudents in use of libraries.1 However,most of the profession's publication aboutstatus has taken place during the nineteensixties and seventies,climaxing with thepublication of the Standards in Septem-ber,1972,and reaction to themthereafter.The former were furtheramplified and clarified in College andResearch Libraries News in 1973 and 1974and have been compiled in a finemonograph on faculty status published in1975 by ALA.2 The acceptance,publication and en-dorsement of the standards have helpedachieve some success across the country inthe attainment or retention of facultystatus.Libraries in Kentucky,New Yorkand Pennsylvania have used them tobulwark their own quest for status,or inthe case of the state colleges ofPennsylvania,help them retain that whichthey already had.California librarianspublished a study in 1975,in preparationfor a program at the ALA Conference inSan Francisco,which made available theexperiences of librarians from around thecountry who had faculty status.Thestandards helped focus and make morecontinued,page 4 D # ACADEMIC LIBRARIES ISSUE SEPARATEUNDERGRADUATELIBRARIES:A DYING BREED? by PaulG.FeehanUniversity of MiamiLibrary As recently as 1975,an author writingin Library Trends discerned a “flourishingtrend"and “increasingly pervasive”influ-ences toward the establishment ofseparate undergraduate libraries.Thefirst of these,the Lamont Library atHarvard University,had opened in 1949.In the next 25 years some 44 otheruniversities followed suit,many withcollections that were essentially micro-cosmie entities offering a full range oflibrary services to the undergraduate. Recent experience nationwide,in theSoutheast,and in the state of Florida,however,indicates a reversal of thisacademic trend.Aecording to the latestobtainable statistics compiled by theUGLI Newsletter,there are now only 37such separate libraries still operating inNorth America. A prime example of this turnaround isat the University of South Carolina inColumbia.There,the Thomas CooperUndergraduate Library opened in 1959,claiming to be the first separate facility inthe South and third in the nation.Aftersome ten years'experience it wasperceived that the building and serviceswere ill-suited to meeting undergrads'actual needs and the library administra-tion decided to re-integrate its collections.The Cooper Library was expanded by theaddition of four underground stack floorsand was rededicated as a combinedgraduate/undergraduate facility inDecember,1976. More recently,some of Florida'slargest academic libraries are makingsimilar moves.Both Florida StateUniversity and the University of Floridahave completed phaseouts of theirundergrad facilities,while at the Univer- # PUBLIC—PRIVATECOOPERATION,FTU—ROLLINS STYLE by Laurie S.HodgeFlorida Technological University For more than three years now,Florida Technological University Libraryand Rollir:College Library have partici-pated in a highly successful sharing oflibrary resources.Their mutual agree-ment permits faculty,staff and studentsat each institution to use the libraryresources of the other on much the samebasis as its own.Because of the agedifferences of the two institutions,theirlibraries effectively complement oneanother,providing the benefits of a

FAQs

What standards are discussed regarding faculty status in Florida?

The document discusses the ACRL “Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians” and how they were adopted and endorsed by library associations.

How far back does the document trace concern about faculty or academic status?

It states that concern has been present for almost a century, citing work written in 1878 by H.A. Sawtelle.

What impact did the acceptance and endorsement of the standards have?

It helped achieve success across the country in attaining or retaining faculty status, with examples of states that used the standards to support their efforts.

Oct 13, 2026

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