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Title: | Collective Effort: The American Union and the American Public Library |
Author(s): | Latham, Joyce M.; Ditzler, Wyatt E. |
Subject(s): | Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science
Libraries and labor unions -- United States. Library employees -- Labor unions -- United States. Public libraries -- United States. |
Abstract: | Unions are a significant element in the library work place, yet there is little discussion of their significance or impact. This article investigates the structures of the unions within the public library in the United States, highlighting the complexity of composition, variance of relationships to library administration, and the simplicity of mission of the union leadership. Results of a brief survey enabled researchers to engage four union officers on areas of significance to them. While concerns over salaries and funding continuity generate concern, discussion also engaged on the perceived value of the professional librarian within public libraries. |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Citation Info: | In Library Trends 59(1-2) Summer/Fall 2010: 237-255. |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18731 |
ISSN: | 0024-2594 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2010 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2012-10-16 |
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Library Trends 59 (1-2) Summer/Fall 2010: Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science, Part 2
Library Trends 59 (1-2) Summer/Fall 2010: Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science, Part 2. Edited by Joanne Gard Marshall, Susan Rathbun-Grubb, Deborah Barreau, and Jennifer Craft Morgan