College and Research Libraries Letters Publication Activity To the Editor: Paula Watson's stated objective "to pro- vide some norms of publishing productivity for librarians" plays into the hands of those who continue to keep librarians as second- class citizens of academia. (C&RL, Sept. 77). Faculty members who are expected to publish have a work schedule that gives time for research, and the academic institu- tion rewards faculty members who do re- search and publish the results. Fur- thermore, it punishes those who don't. Watson doesn't bother to present the condi- tions of employment of the academic librar- ians that she surveyed. She states that the librarians at four of the institutions have faculty status, but she doesn't define what she means by the term. So long as librarians are required to work forty hours per week in an eleven-month year and receive virtually no -incentives for research and publication, it simply is not fair to compare their productivity with those who have both the opportunities and the in- centives. A better comparison would be made with the productivity of faculty admin- istrators who work approximately the same schedule as librarians. The academic admin- istrators do very little research and less pub- lication, because there is no time for it and no incentive. Watson is even wrong to lump together librarians from institutions that give full fac- ulty status with those that do not. She should have divided her results between the two and compared them. Even that would only be a statistical study on what we are doing now as opposed to what we might do if given the proper conditions. I believe that this problem is so complex that it requires careful analysis of each li- brary; perhaps even case studies would be more appropriate. We've had too many of these generalizations about the lack of pro- COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES fessional interest among librarians. It is time for someone to describe an academic library where librarians are given the same oppor- tunity and incentives as professors and then compare their productivity: -R. Dean Gal- loway, Library Director, California State College, Stanislaus. Response To the Editor: Librarians are compared in my article only briefly and incidentally to teaching fac- ulty. The main purpose of my study is to compare librarians with other librarians. My primary aim in attempting to provide norms of publishing productivity is in fact to pro- tect librarians from unfair comparison with their teaching colleagues. Without objective evaluative standards against which to judge librarians, university promotions and tenure committees at institutions where librarians have faculty status must inevitably compare librarians with the teaching faculty. Table 4 of my article shows that the uni- versity libraries surveyed are quite consis- tent both in percentage of staff publishing and in individual productivity. This sug- gested to me that it would not be instruc- tive to divide the results of the study be- tween those librarians with faculty status and those without it. I also felt that it would not be productive to investigate what I an- ticipated would be very minor variations in conditions of work among the librarians sur- veyed. Results of a questionnaire on condi- tions of employment of ARL librarians which have recently been released by the Pennsylvania State University Library Fac- ulty Affairs Committee show a high degree of consistency among ARL librarians with and without faculty status in length of con- tract year, allotted vacation, and hours in the work week. I 131 132 I College & Research Libraries • March 1978 In the discussion paragraph of my article, I argue that librarians should be given time for research because I fully recognize the difficulties Mr. Galloway points out. Librar- ians are clearly handicapped in their ability to keep up with the teaching faculty in THE SPRINGER SERIES IN HEALTH CARE AND SOCIETY Vo/.1 QUALITY CONTROL OF AMBULATORY CARE A Task for Health Departments Steven Jonas 192 pp. 1977 0 82612240-X LC 77-24502 CIP $12.50 cloth Vol. 2 COMMUNITY MEDICINE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Medical Education and an Emerging Specialty within the Reorganized National Health Service WUiiam S. 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