Ratings of Journals by ARL Library Directors and Deans of Library and Information Science Schools

A study of the perceived prestige of a core group of library journals by directors of ARL libraries and library school deans reveals a prestige hierarchy for each group. Although in rough agreement on the rating of two-thirds of the journals, the deans and directors differ significantly on the ratings of the remaining one-third. The subset of ARL directors in institutions where librarians have faculty status as evidenced by tenure does not rate journals substantially more like library school deans than do ARL directors as a whole, and library school deans are shown to agree much more as a group on their ratings than the ARL directors.