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Personnel For Junior College Libraries
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Veit, Fritz |
| Copyright Year | 1965 |
| Abstract | THESIGNIFICANCE of personnel for a library program is undisputed today. Louis Wilson and Maurice Tauber, for instance, in their volume on the university library, listed “Personnel” next to “Resources for Instruction” as an element fundamental to the successful operation of a 1ibrary.l Today library staffs in institutions of higher learning-universities, senior colleges, and junior colleges-are commonly divided into three principal categories: professional, non-professional or clerical, and student assistants. The following brief account traces the development of the library staffs in junior colleges, devoting principal attention, as the literature has, to the professional category. I t is noteworthy that the first comprehensive survey of the American junior college gives only scant attention to the library. In the index to this pioneering investigation by Leonard KOOS,published in 1924, are only a few references relating to the library.2 The role and training of the librarian are not even mentioned. Only seven years later the library receives quite systematic consideration by Walter Eells in a t e ~ t b o o k . ~ As an illustration of the rapid increase in esteem of the library, Eells compares the standards of the American Association of Junior Colleges adopted in March 1922 with the revised statement of standards of this Association adopted at Atlantic City in November 1929. The standards of 1922 required merely that a very modest book stock be maintained. The 1929 library standards of the American Association of Junior Colleges increased the book requirements, but above all provided that a trained librarian shall be in charge of the l i b r a r ~ . ~ This requirement, as spelled out in part of Standard X reads: |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
