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ACCEPTED AS REVISED BY SENATE
OCTOBER 6, 1969
REPORT OF THE SENATE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FACULTY STATUS
Introduction:
The charge from Senate to this Committee was "to establish
the status of certain groups who are not as yet defined as faculty,
to make recommendations to Senate, including eligibility for entry on
Convocation roll, voting privileges and related matters." Therefore,
the Committee submits that in terms of its charge from Senate, faculty
status should confer:
The right to be placed on the faculty electoral
roll by the University electoral officer (i.e.
the Registrar).
In awarding faculty status, the Committee concluded that
faculty status, in terms of the charge, should be granted only those
engaged full time at Simon Fraser in teaching and research and who
hold a term appointment of such nature that if renewed and/or promoted
would make them eligible for tenure.
Recommendation I:
That all instructors, assistant professors, associate
professors and full professors should possess faculty status.
Persons holding appointments to these positions clearly meet
the criteria (see last paragraph Introduction) adopted by the committee
for faculty status. By implication, teaching assistants, associates of
the centres, teaching associates, part-time lecturers, research fellows,
visiting professors and all who teach but do not meet the criteria,
would, not enjoy faculty status in terms of the charge laid down to the
Committee.
Recommendation II:
That the position of University Lecturer should be abolished
and present faculty so described be re-appointed at the appropriate
rank. Failing this, that University Lecturers be awarded faculty status.
Recommendation III:
That all professional librarians be placed on the faculty
electoral roll and granted voting privileges.
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REPORT OF THE SENATE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FACULTY STATUS
Introduction:
The charge from Senate to this Committee was "to establish
the status of certain groups who are not as yet defined as faculty,
to make recommendations to Senate, including eligibility for entry
on Convocation roll, voting privileges and
related
matters."
Therefore,, the Committee submits that
in
terms of its charge from
Senate, faculty status should confer:
a.
The right to vote for faculty Senate positions
as provided in Article 23, section j, the Universities'
Act.
b.
The right to vote on all of the faculty referenda.
C.
The right to be plaCed on the faculty electoral
roll by the University electoral officer (i.e. the
Registrar).
d. The right to be a member of Convocation.
In awarding faculty status, the Committee concluded that
faculty status, in terms of the charge, should be granted only
W those engaged full time at Simon Fraser in teaching and research
and who hold a terra appointment of such nature that if renewed
and/or promoted would make them eligible for tenure.
Recommendation I:
That all instructors, assistant professors, associate
professors, full professors and university residents in the arts
should possess faculty status.
Persons holding appointments to these positions clearly meet
the criteria (see last paragraph Introduction) adopted by the
committee for faculty status. By 'implication, teaching assistants,
associates of the centres, teaching associates, part-time lecturers,
research fellows, visiting professors and all who'teach but do not
meet the criteria, would not enjoy faculty status in terms of the
charge laid down to the Committee.
Recommendation II:
That the position of University Lecturer should be abolished
and present faculty so described be reappointed at the appropriate
rank. Failing this, that University Lecturers be awarded faculty
status.
Recommendation
_III:
That all professional librarians should be awarded faculty
status in terms of the charge laid down to the committee (supporting
paper to follow).
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AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FACULTY STATUS
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STATUS OF LIBRARIANS
The position of a librarian in the university community is an
anomalous one because although he has an academic appointment
and normally has a continuing position, he is unable to give any voice
to academic decisions. The work of librarians is credited as being
essential to any educational institution. The power of this reasoning
has exerted sufficient pressure within the universities to generate
a reassessment of the position of the librarian.
For the past thirty years a growing ground swell of acceptance of
the librarian as having faculty status has taken place in the
universities of North America. The list of universities granting
faculty status to librarians is already extensive and accelerating.
The list includes
Kansas State University
Washington State University
. ? State University of Iowa
University of Washington
Ohio State University
New York University
Indiana University
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Kansas
University of Illinois
University of Miami
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University of Nebraska
University of New Hampshire
University of Tennessee
University of Utah
University of Idaho
City University of New York
University of Kentucky
Pennsylvania State University
Windsor University
Dalhousie University
II EDUCATION OF LIBRARIANS
The professional education of librarians has undergone considerable
change in North America during the last twenty years. The North
American pattern has been graduation from accredited faculties
or schools attached to institutions of higher education. The accrediting
body for these schools in both the United States and Canada is the
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American Library Association.
The first degree was traditionally a fifth year Bachelor of Library
Science (B. L. S.) after the baccalaureate and was granted in both
Canada and the United States.
In the last twenty years the B. L. S. degree has been up-graded and
transformed to the Master of Library Science (M. L. S.) in all schools
in the United States. In Canada, however, the change has be en slower
and is still on-going. The B.L.S. degree is the standard degree in
Canada. ?
Last year, the new School of Librarianship and Information
Science at Western Ontario gave its first degree, a M. L. S. The new
school at Dalhousie University will also give a M. L. S. degree. These
two schools are identical with the American pattern.
There is, of course, the inevitable second Canadian variant at McGill
University which gives a two year M.L.S. The doctorate is not
available in Canada, but is granted by upwards of fifteen universities
in the United States. There may be possibly six librarians holding
the doctorate in teaching positions in Canada at the present time.
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III THE PROFESSION OF LIBRARIANS
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is undergoing a philosophical change as well as a
fundemental change in the terminology that is used to describe itself.
Historically, the work of the librarian tended to be custodial, but
progressively this devolved into the organization of materials and then
the organization of knowledge. Later development required skill in
acquiring materials and with the eventual acquisition and cataloguing
of materials came the need for precise bibliographical description.
Modern librarianship holds that its keystone. is bibliography and
together with classifying knowledge it has become a highly complex and
precise art or "science".
The second half of the twentieth Century has seen remarkable
technological innovation, and the most significant for an academic
library has been the computer. The growth of information has been
so overwhelming that it has required the related intelligence from
physics, engineering, domputing, science, linguistics, and librarianship,
to cope with the storage and retrieval of information to satisfy the growing
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numbers inour society who require factual information. The work of the
librarian in the 1970's bares little resemblance to his predecessor in
1950; The responsibility for bibliographical control, search strategies,
and information storage and retrieval, makes his position more central
to the requirements of the university community, and, therefore, it is
more essential that he have more responsibility for taking part in the
decisions that govern that community.
