Library School Programs and the Successful Training of Academic Librarians to Meet Promotion and Tenure Requirements in the Academy

Rickey D. Best is Dean and Jason Kneip is Archivist/Special Collections Librarian of the Auburn University at Montgomery Library; e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected]. ©Rickey D. Best and Jason Kneip This article relates an investigation of tenure and promotion practices for librarians at academic institutions. The study employed two surveys. The first survey determined the level of impact on promotion and tenure by recent publication in two top-tier peer-reviewed journals: College & Research Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship. The second survey was developed and distributed to authors of articles in the two journals requesting information about the nature of their library positions. Although more research is warranted, it appears that librarians at academic institutions tend to publish more frequently in top-tier journals, enhancing our professional literature.