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• W68379701 abstract "Certain colleges and universities require that their academic librarians have an additional advanced subject degree for either being eligible for hire or for continued employment. This reviews this topic and examines how using metaphors may help the field of librarianship make sound decisions on this controversial topic. ********** According to Mayer and Terrill, (2005, p.59) the literature related to academic librarians and advanced subject degrees is limited and was mainly performed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This be troubling to the field of academic librarianship, and to the institutions served by academic librarians, as much has changed in the field since then as a result of advances in technology, the increased reliance on the World Wide Web as an information resource, and the distance learning initiatives pursued by an increasing number of universities each year. These changes place a premium on the time librarians have to commit to their daily duties and to their profession. Currently at some, all, universities there is a paradigm that an advanced degree in a subject specialty other than librarianship imbues the academic librarian who holds it with greater scholarly credibility than one who does not. Also, it is seen as enhancing the status of librarians who work in academia. Whether this paradigm is valid has always been open to question and now be placed under greater scrutiny given that librarianship has always been a profession with its own terminal degree, the MLS, and that librarians will undoubtedly need to keep abreast of a field of knowledge and discovery within their own profession that will be advancing at an ever quickening rate. It may well be that advanced subject degrees, while valuable in and of themselves, are no longer relevant to the field of librarianship and the question will always remain: were they ever really relevant in the first place? While this does seek to answer that question, it offers an overview of it and a way of using metaphors to view it. Review of the literature Herubel (1991, p. 437) states the formal qualifications for an academic librarian are debatable. This is so. The minimum requirement for an academic librarian is that they hold an American Library Association accredited Master of Library Science Degree (MLS). He also writes that, If the MLS is generally upheld as the sine qua non for academic, public, and special librarians the value of additional paper qualifications is not Herubel (1991, p. 437). With this in mind, however, Herubel (1991, p. 437) goes on to claim that academic librarians need subject specific graduate degrees in addition to their MLS degree in order to be seen as having scholarly credibility. According to Hembel (1991): Graduate education in a subject provides useful tools--they may be languages, statistics, methodologies--and instills a scholarly ethos. It is indicative of an commitment to the goals of scholarship that the teaching faculty has a right to expect of academic librarians (p. 437). Herubel sees the intellectual cachet of the second advanced degree as being vital to academic librarians being seen as equal though different and that they should go through this rite of passage (1991, p. 437). What Herubel is alluding to, whether he realizes it or not, is a view proposed by Russell (Russell, 1991, p.16) that states, Eventually the neophyte so thoroughly internalizes the discourse of the community and, with it, the community' perceptions, assumptions, and behaviors, that she begins to think and act--and write--like a member of the community. While this view may be applicable to undergraduate students it is debatable as to whether it is applicable to professional academic librarians who are neophytes within their own field. Herubel's point of view diminishes the library profession as it does take into account that librarians enable the process of scholarship by understanding and being capable of performing library research for those individuals, faculty or students, who require assistance with it. …" @default.
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