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Dissertation Information for Janet Butler Munch

NAME:
- Janet Butler Munch

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1992)

ADVISORS:
- Redmond Kathleen Molz

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Phyllis Dain

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Librarians as college faculty members: Case studies in professional staff development

Abstract: This dissertation used qualitative case study methodology to investigate staff development practices of library faculty at three college libraries (two public and one private) emphasizing baccalaureate and post baccalaureate programs through the master's level. Librarians at each of these sites had full faculty status and were required to fulfill the same criteria as teaching faculty.

Through documentary evidence and fifty interviews with library directors, librarians, teaching faculty and administrators, the staff development activities at these sites were identified and analyzed. Variables explored included institutional supports and hindrances; faculty status and requirements for promotion and tenure; budget allocation for staff development; mentoring and collegiality; equal access to developmental opportunities; and the relationship between staff development and organizational needs.

Several basic implications for staff development and the practice of college librarianship emerge from this study. These include: the necessity of establishing the staff development function based on internal, institutional needs; the importance of having an assigned coordinator for staff development; and the need for released time from regularly scheduled activities in librarianship in order to fulfill institutional expectations, particularly regarding scholarship and publication. Recognition of the unique role of the librarian in academe and the importance of defining excellence in librarianship is also emphasized, as is the need for librarians to claim the opportunities for staff development available to teaching faculty.

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