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• W222128135 abstract "A Case Study of Professionalism and Personnel RestructuringDuring the recent past the first author was involved in an unusual exchange over the value of a master's degree from a program accredited by the American Library Association (ALA) as a requirement for professional librarian positions. The arguments of the other party in the discussion will be discussed under the pseudonym AFE, short for Advocate for Experience. This individual, identifying himself as a retired businessman and husband of a longtime public library worker, gave his version of how his spouse lost a paraprofessional position in a discontinued job classification with higher than usual pay and responsibilities. AFE described the position involved as having the exact duties as a beginning professional librarian without requiring an MLS/MLIS/MSI from an ALA-accredited program. AFE added that in past years individuals who lacked the professional master's degree were appointed by the library as children's librarians, a position his spouse had once held.According to AFE, cuts in library funding led to the decision to eliminate the highly paid paraprofessional classification. The affected staff members were either laid off or offered lesser-paying appointments. At the same time, the library created new Librarian I positions, including appointments in children's services, that required a master's degree from an ALA-accredited program. Substantial savings were still achieved by the library inasmuch as the new librarians were hired at lower salaries than those of the displaced paraprofessionals. According to AFE, the library defended its actions as being in accord with American Library Association recommendations regarding professional librarian qualifications. When he contacted ALA, the organization reasserted the value of its accredited master's degree.Contesting Models of ProfessionalismThis case is particularly remarkable compared to the usual personnel reductions taken by libraries during the 2007 Great Recession and subsequent retrenchment period. AFE's unnamed library, instead of following the usual approach of eliminating professional librarian positions, (Davies 2013; Harer 2011; Oder 2009), cut elsewhere and reinforced educated competence through creating new librarian openings. Libraries making cutbacks at this time were much more likely to eliminate or deprofessionalize professional library and information positions. This negative state of affairs has been particularly evident in Canada, the United States, and United Kingdom, where jettisoning professional library and information positions in favor of utilizing paraprofessionals, clerks, or even volunteers has been, of late, a frequent priority (Blackley 2009; Crowley 2012).In making his arguments AFE drew a parallel with his own career in the private sector. Although lacking a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA), he claimed to have been promoted to a corporate managerial position over candidates who had earned that professional credential, an opportunity since the MBA had been listed as desirable but not required in the position posting. He concluded his email with a request that he be provided information on libraries allowing experience and training to substitute for the MLS/MLIS/MSI in professional librarian positions. This information would be used as part of a presentation to the county commission that funded the public library.The Hard Choice of Defending Educated LIS ProfessionalismIt is unlikely that AFE knew that the first author had lost his first professional librarian appointment due to municipal budget reductions and had been forced to move halfway across the country for a new librarian position. Rather poignantly, while later serving as a senior library manager, he had been involved with difficult decisions on budget-driven personnel layoffs. The first author thus faced a dilemma. He could respond from empathy with the negatively affected library staff described by AFE and provide the requested information or decline and continue to defend requiring professional education for librarian positions. …" @default.
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• W222128135 title "Sustaining Professionalism in the Fields of Library and Information Studies" @default.
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