ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


College &  Research 
Libraries news No. 8,September 1972

ACRL News Issue (A) of College & Research Libraries, Vol. 33, No. 5

Membership Endorses Joint 
Statement on Faculty Status

The members of the Association of College 
and Research Libraries, meeting on June 26 
during the Annual Conference in Chicago, 
voted their overwhelming endorsement of the 
“Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College 
and University Librarians” drafted by a com­
mittee of the Association of American Col­
leges, the American Association of Univer­
sity Professors, and ACRL. The statement is 
the result of nearly a year’s effort on the part 
of the tripartite committee, established in Dal­
las, Texas during the 1971 conference. After 
rigorous and painstaking reviews of the docu­
ment at a special meeting in March, and again 
during the Annual Conference, the ACRL 
Committee on Academic Status submitted the 
following recommendation to the membership:

That the ACRL Standards for Faculty
Status for College and University Librar­
ians, as passed at the ACRL Membership 
Meeting of June 24, 1971, in Dallas, Texas, 
be reaffirmed and th at the April 26, 1972 
Joint Statement on Faculty Status of Col­
lege and University Librarians of the As­
sociation of College and Research Libraries, 
the Association of American Colleges and 
the American Association of University 
Professors be endorsed as an effective im­
plementation of many of these standards.

The joint statement will now be presented 
 the AAC and the AAUP for their considera­

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Joint S tatem en t on Faculty Status 
of College and U niversity L ibrarians

As the primary means through which stu­
dents and faculty gain access to the store­
house of organized knowledge, the college and 
university library performs a unique and indis­
pensable function in th e educational process. 
This function will grow in importance as stu­
dents assume greater responsibility for their 
own intellectual and social development. In ­

deed all members of the academic community 
are likely to become increasingly dependent 
on skilled professional guidance in the acquisi­
tion and use of library resources as the forms 
and numbers of these resources multiply, schol­
arly materials appear in more languages, bib­
liographical systems become more complicated, 
and library technology grows increasingly so­

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News e d ito r: Michael Herbison, Library, University of C olorado, C olorado Springs Center, Colorado Springs, 
C olorado 80907. E ditor: Richard M. Dougherty, University Library, University o f C alifornia, Berkeley, C alifornia 
94720. President, ACRL: Russell Shank. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Beverly Lynch, ALA.