DAVID C . WEBER ' ' Tenure ' ' for Librarians in Academic Institutions
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THE woRD "TENURE" is used by some academic libraries in the same sense in which it is applied to faculty appointments of professorial rank. A considerable number of directors of other academic libraries would follow the spirit of faculty tenure but would apply the term in a special way to the appointments of librarians. What is the basis for this special meaning of tenure in the case of librarians? Certainly librarians resemble professors in that they are members of an academic staff and belong to a scholarly profession. A few may teach formal classes, and many perform informal teaching in their public service capacities. In performing technical bibliographical processes they frequently carry on research activities of a difficult nature. On the other hand, librarians differ from professors in that they operate a service organization, geared not to their own scholarly purposes but serving the · scholarly activities and instructional needs of others. It is an operation which consists largely of bibliographic records and business processes; and a fairly high proportion of librarians-about one-half in many libraries-are managers or supervisors. Thus, librarians constitute a spe-
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