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Diversity and Pluralism - 02170012
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED251078 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Managerial and Technical Specialists. SPEC Kit 20.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 80 p.
ABSTRACT: This kit is compiled from documentation received
as a result of a 1975 Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) survey on the use of specialists in member libraries;
updated materials gathered in 1978 are included. Survey data
from 64 ARL members indicate wide utilization of various
managerial and technical specialists. Of these, personnel
librarians appear as the most frequent category among
responding institutions (72%). Systems analysts and either
budget officers, planning officers, or planning/budget
officers are found in more than half the responding
libraries. Computer programmers, audiovisual specialists,
and staff development officers are reportedly employed less
frequently in ARL libraries. In addition to positions
mentioned in the survey, binding/restoration specialists,
curators of special collections, library editor/publicists,
building projects managers, affirmative action coordinators,
and photographic services specialists are found in some of
the responding libraries. Documentation and survey results
indicate that in almost all cases, a master's degree and
experience in a job-related field are required for
specialist positions. The kit includes 2 documents on
classifications/career paths, 5 documents on
business/planning positions, 5 on personnel positions, 10 on
systems, analyst, and programmer positions, 2 on information
specialist/publicist positions, and 5 on book repair/special
collections/photoduplication positions. (THC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrators-; Higher-Education; Library
Surveys; Library-Technicians
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Academic-Libraries; *Library-Personnel;
*Occupational-Information; *Personnel-Directors; *Research
Libraries; *Specialists-
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