id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-816 Power and Status (and Lack Thereof) in Academe: Academic Freedom and Academic Librarians – In the Library with the Lead Pipe .html text/html 9459 535 45 Librarians in the University of California system learned during their union contract negotiations in 2018 that their institution believed academic freedom did not apply to them; this became the primary issue during their ultimately successful negotiations.18 According to a recent survey of Canadian librarians, they face restrictions on what they research, and struggle to pursue scholarship in light of their other responsibilities.19 Even when librarians are not directly restricted in their research or personal expression, they face structural inequities in terms of funding and time to do research compared to disciplinary faculty, leading indirectly to infringements on their autonomy.20 Only half of all liberal arts college librarians report feeling "protected in their work as a librarian," according to a survey conducted by librarian Meghan Dowell in 2018.21 Dowell's findings echo what non-faculty librarians reported in our survey, which is not surprising given how many liberal arts college librarians are classified as staff/non-faculty. ./cache/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-816.html ./txt/www-inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe-org-816.txt