The Librarian in Catholic Institutions
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This paper attempts to examine the place of librarians in Catholic institutions of higher learning by providing answers to questions about the ratio of professional to nonprofessional staff, the presence or absence of staff associations, the involvement of professional staffs in library administration through staff meetings, and the librarians' status and salaries. The search is based on a questionnaire, mailed to the head librarians of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States enrolling more than one thousand students. The necessary statistical data on the size of the libraries, the number of students they serve, and various standards applicable to the academic libraries were obtained from published sources. The paper presents, compares, and analyzes the data.
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