Status Of Women In Librarianship Research Articles

From the President: Productive Engagement in Professional Commitment

At the Biennium Conference of 2003, a second award program (in addition to Literacy) was inaugurated with the announcement of the first recipient of the Marilyn Miller Award for Professional Commitment. Named for Marilyn L. Miller, a longtime supporter of the Roundtable on the Status of Women in Librarianship and a legendary state and national leader in our profession, the purpose of the award is to recognize a North Carolina professional librarian who has provided outstanding leadership and service in furthering the status ofwomen in librarianship, the mission of the library in the community,and/or the support of women colleagues in the workplace. I ampleased to feature the winner as an exceptional example of “productive engagement” which reflects professional productivity.

Documenting One Hundred Twenty Years of Writings on Women's Entry, Advancement, and Struggle for Equalization in LibrarianshipOn Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1977-1981. Kathleen M. Heim, Katharine PhenixOn Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1982-1986. Katharine PhenixOn Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the

Previous articleNext article No AccessA Review ArticleDocumenting One Hundred Twenty Years of Writings on Women's Entry, Advancement, and Struggle for Equalization in Librarianship On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1977-1981. Kathleen M. Heim, Katharine Phenix On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1982-1986. Katharine Phenix On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1987-1992. Lori A. Goetsch, Sarah B. Watstein On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1993-1997. Betsy Kruger, Catherine A. LarsonMary Niles MaackMary Niles Maack Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 72, Number 2Apr., 2002 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/603357 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2002 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Marta Bladek From Women-Staffed to Women-Led: Gender and Leadership in Academic Libraries, 1974-2018, Journal of Library Administration 59, no.55 (Jun 2019): 512–531.https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2019.1616970Bharat Mehra, Kevin S. Rioux, Kendra S. Albright Social Justice in Library and Information Science, (Jul 2016): 4820–4836.https://doi.org/10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044526 Sarah M. Pritchard Dee Garrison, Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876–1920 Sarah M. Pritchard, The Library Quarterly 74, no.44 (Jul 2015): 477–486.https://doi.org/10.1086/427419

The Round Table on Women's Issues Snapshot Project: The Status of Women in Libraries, Internationally

This project was commissioned by the Round Table on Women's Issues (RTWI) at the 66th IFLA conference. The Round Table on Women's Issues is a sub-division of IFLA which concerns itself extensively with questions and issues that have special relevance for women in the library profession and in the user community. Further it develops programmes designed to enhance the opportunities and the image of these two groups of women. The Round Table on Women's Issues promotes the collection, research, publication and dissemination of information on the status of women in librarianship. Another concern is to identify discrimination in all forms, and disparities in resources, programmes, and opportunities relating to women in librarianship. At the 66th Conference, members of the Round Table discussed the Association of Research Libraries' Annual Salary Survey, 1999-2000 and noted that the average salary for female directors (USD 132,000) in United States university libraries was slightly higher than the average salary of male directors (USD 125,000) (pp. 16-18). There is now the highest number of women in top administrative positions than there has been before: 54 women out of a total of 111 directorships. This was of course the good news.The bad news was that the overall salary for women in research and academic libraries in the USA was still only 94 percent that of men. During the 19 years that statistics have been gathered women have been gradually closing the earnings gap, as in 1980 they earned only 87 percent, but it is a slow process. Overall, men represent only 35 percent of the workforce among professional librarians. The Round Table felt it would be interesting to discover how this compared with salaries in other countries and other sectors. This could form the basis for some comparative statistics if other members of the group could follow up. Although aware that delegates at IFLA conferences were not representative of the profession as a whole, it was felt that it might be possible to conduct a 'snapshot' project of delegates, women officers and committee members at IFLA's 67th conference to ascertain the status of women librarians internationally. Sandra Parker and Pat Gannon-Leary from the Information Management Research Institute, University of Northumbria School of Information Studies, obtained an IFLA small grant to undertake this work and to report on findings at the 68th IFLA conference.

On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1993-1997 (review)

On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1993-1997 (review)

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The Significance of Gender: A History of the Status of Women in Librarianship Special Interest Group, 1983–1990

ABSTRACTThe author was Convenor of the Library Association of Australia Status of Women in Librarianship Special Interest Group (SOWIL-SIG) from 1983 until 1988. She describes the activities of the group through a framework of perspectives that explores its structural, political, human and symbolic significance. The SOWIL-SIG came into being during a time of intense political and social awareness of women's issues, and in the library profession such awareness was spearheaded by the American Library Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship. Within this context, the author explores the significance of a feminised profession becoming conscious of its own women's issues.

On account of sex: an annotated bibliography on the status of women in librarianship, 1982-1986

Librarianship is, without a doubt, a feminized profession. This book covers the history and the labor, the struggles and the economics, the challenges and the realities of women in librarianship from 1987 through 1992. The third supplement to The Role of Women in Librarianship, 1876-1976 (1979), the collective work of a dozen women, this annotated bibliography is the most comprehensive source available on the status of women in librarianship during the period covered.

Gender equality in librarianship: a review article

Equal opportunities in librarianship? is reviewed in the context of similarities between the current status of women in librarianship in Britain and in Australia. It describes the strengths of Burrington's research, and how it has extended previous similar research, as well as suggesting further, future areas of relevant, related research.

The Status of Women Librarians

We know from 1980 census data that there are 136,000 librarians in the United States and that 84.6 percent of them are women.' Membership in the American Library Association (ALA) is over 40,000 and 78.3 percent is female.2 So indeed we have empirical data backing up the widely held notion that librarianship in this century is a woman's profession. But only 100 years ago this was not true: women came into the profession because we were cheap and available. Women's presence in librarianship shot up from 20 percent in 1870 to 75 percent in 1900.3 Justin Windsor said in 1877, In American libraries, we set a high value on women's work. They soften our atmosphere, they lighten our labor, they are equal to our work, and for the money they cost-they are infinitely better than equivalent salaries will produce in the other sex.4 Thus when we look at the status of women in libraries, we find that women predominate but men dominate because of a century of discrimination-a statistical variable that I do not know how to measure. What is the status of women in libraries? Since 1981 I have been the bibliographer for the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, which is charged with the collection, analysis, dissemination and coordination of information on the status of women in librarian-

Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession (Book Review)

College & Research Libraries to which citation analysis has long been applied, Bulick examines the degree to which disciplines use their own literatures or borrow extensively from others. Those which rely heavily on endogenous litera- tures are considered to be analytical disciplines whose paradigms, in Kuhn's sense, are well developed; those which borrow heavily from other fields are '' syn- thetic'' and have less full and mature para- digms. Using his measures this way, Bulick ar- gues that economists' focused, or ethno- centric'' use of materials shows a degree of consensus on basic issues of theory and technique not matched by the other social sciences. Geography, with its notoriously unfavorable balance of trade with other disciplines, is ranked lowest on these measures, leaving sociology, anthropol- ogy, and political science somewhere in between. Bulick' s discussion of the individual so- cial sciences incorporates a skilled and in- formed interleaving of the history both of the several disciplines themselves and of their treatment by the LC classification scheme. We too often think of the latter as received from above, but Bulick reminds us that in its developmental stages, LC was an emerging commentary on and at- tempt to organize emerging disciplines. Bulick' s most interesting conclusion, based both on patterns of cross- disciplinary use and on various measures of association which assess the conjoint reading between pairs of disciplines, is that the boundaries of the individual so- cial sciences .may never become as clear as those of the physical sciences. But the so- cial sciences as a whole, with their com- munal interests in literatures within social science and its special cousin, history, may be blending into a unified social sci- ence. This is not a perfect book. It is somewhat specialized, in that the structure of branch libraries at Pittsburgh necessarily ex- cluded the sciences from consideration, and Bulick chooses not to discuss the hu- manities. One might ask for more consid- eration of use patterns between specific pairs of disciplines and of what this means. One can quibble with the misuse November 1984 of the term sociology of knowledge or argue that the Bradford/Zip£ distribution t€lls us little of interest to librarians that a simple J-curve of use does not convey and that it does not merit the attention Bulick gives it. One can definitely become upset, as I imagine Bulick himself is, that an im- portant table is mislabelled-readers should bring themselves to note in their li- brary copies that the column headings of Table 6.23 should all slide one place to the right. Imperfect? Of course, and fascinating. The only serious flaw with this book is that we are ignoring it. Reviews have been few and only some 120 OCLC libraries have cataloged it. Either librarians are unsure that an understanding of the disciplines they serve has anything to say about how they should conduct their business, or there is something wrong with the system of gatekeepers that is supposed to help us sort out the big books from the little books.-Paul Metz, Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute. Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession. Prepared by Kathleen Heim and Leigh S. Estabrook. Chicago: American Library Assn., 1983. 82p. $15. LC 83-3838. ISBN 0-8389-3282- Results of statistical surveys frequently pose more interesting questions than those which prompted the survey in the first place. Heim and Estabrook's project is no exception. The task that Heim, Esta- brook, and the ALA Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (COSWL) set for themselves was a com- prehensive career study of librarians, ex- amining in particular the differences in status (salary, administrative responsibil- ity, career advancement) between female and male members of the American Li- brary Association. Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination reports the results of their research but, in a mere 46 pages of text, ac- complishes much more. As principle investigators Heim and Es- tabrook are quite explicit about the dual purpose and goal of their research, this study was designed not only to provide data useful for analyzing and evaluating

The Status of Women in Librarianship: Historical, Sociological, and Economic Issues. Kathleen M. Heim

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsThe Status of Women in Librarianship: Historical, Sociological, and Economic Issues. Kathleen M. HeimMary BiggsMary Biggs Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Library Quarterly Volume 54, Number 2Apr., 1984 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/601478 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1984 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.