Library Trends articles from September 1997

Library Trends archives from September 1997

Introduction.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... Library Associations are found in Great Abundance and variety, from the strictly local to the international. "Librarians . . . form readily, usually enthusiastically, often uncritically, and almost always enduringly into organizations"...

Professional associations or unions? A comparative look.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Looking at the white collar working class, Mills (1951) explains that, before the twentieth century, American life was characterized by a decentralized economic life, directed predominately by the interests of...

Library association staff: roles, responsibilities, relationships.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION With the American Library Association (ALA) again in the throes of executive turmoil--seeking its fourth chief staff officer in less than eight years--attention is focused on individuals largely overlooked in...

Professional associations: promoting leadership in a career.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION "Leadership, much as we admire it in the abstract, is something we suspect in the specific" (White, 1987, p. 68). This article examines the role of the major American professional associations and organizations in...

Associate "members of the club" speak out: individual response to a state or regional association presidency.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Elected leaders of library associations are a singular group of people that has been little studied. Corwin's 1974 study of association officers spotlighted gender issues in state, regional, or local association...

To join or not to join: how librarians make membership decisions about their associations.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Librarians are urged to join and to participate in professional associations from the time they enter library school. Indeed, by offering free membership or greatly reduced dues to students, organizations such as...

Activity in professional associations: the positive difference in a librarian's career.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION When a graduate student completes the formal coursework and requirements for the master's degree in library and information studies, he or she is simply not aware of the value of professional associations. The...

The value of professional associations.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The index to the 32nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Associations (Jaszczak, 1997) lists some 524 organizations with the keywords of either "information" or "library" or their derivatives. Even if one removes those...

The war on books and ideas: the California Library Association and anti-Communist censorship in the 1940s and 1950s.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION California Library Association (CLA) President John D. Henderson (1941) predicted that the 1940s would mark a time of "war on books and ideas" (p. 120) for librarians everywhere. Worldwide, public libraries were being...

Paraprofessional groups and associations.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The first step in examining the growing world of paraprofessional library associations and groups is to look at the reasons for their emergence and continued growth. As of 1992, an estimated 352,815 people were...

Surveying the role of ethnic-American library associations.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION The last few decades since the blossoming of the civil rights movement have seen the emergence of a unique type of organization of librarians--i.e., the ethnic library association. These associations cross many...

International library associations. (The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION International organizations have experienced a recent remarkable increase in numbers. Several possible reasons for the growth of international library associations since World War II are the following: * Our...

The virtual association.(The Role of Professional Associations)
September 22, 1997... INTRODUCTION Can an association truly become virtual? Or will it always be locked into an endless cycle of conferences, workshops, reports, political tugs of war, and membership drives? Does an Internet site make an association...