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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
SJSU Special Collections & Archives
Title: Judy Reynolds Papers: California State University Librarians: Equal Pay, Comparable Worth and Faculty Status
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.2013.01.13
Physical Description:
1 box
(1.3 linear feet)
Date (inclusive): 1965-2000
Abstract: In the 1960s, librarians in the California State University and Colleges System were one of three academic employee groups
along with teaching faculty and student affairs officers. Librarians were the only group of academic employees on a different
and lower salary schedule. The collection contains documents related to librarian efforts in the 1970’s and 1980s to attain
faculty status for librarians, including equal pay, sabbaticals and a ten-month year.
Physical Description: 1 Box, 15 Folders
Language of Material: Languages represented in the collection: English
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has been assigned to the San Jose State University Library Special Collections and Archives. All requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the SJSU Special Collections and Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions also
apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Judy Reynolds Papers: California State University Librarians: Equal Pay, Comparable Worth and Faculty Status, 1965-1980, MSS-2013-01-13,
San José State University Library Special Collections and Archives.
Processed by: Jo Bell Whitlatch
Reviewed by: Danelle Moon
Date completed: 2013
Imported to Archivists Toolkit: Stephanie Waslohn
Date imported: 2013
Encoded by: Archivist Toolkit
Date encoded: 2013
Edited by: Lale Yasemin Kaya
Date edited: July 2014
Reviewed by: Danelle Moon
Date reviewed: January 2015
In the late 1960s, many academic libraries across the U.S. supported the promotion of librarians to faculty status. In 1971,
the Association of College and Research Libraries adopted the "Standards for Faculty Status for College and University Librarians."
Other important developments were the Equal Pay Act of 1963 with its emphasis on comparing skill, effort and responsibility
of positions and the growing awareness of a pattern of depressed wage rates in occupational categories filled primarily by
women. Judy Reynolds, who donated this collection, was one of a core group of librarians, who worked with and obtained strong
support from the various faculty associations in the California State University, such as the Academic Senate, the United
Professors of California, and the California Faculty Association, and professional library associations, especially the State
University and Colleges Chapter of the California Library Association, the American Library Association, and the Association
of College and Research Librarians. Librarian activities and membership in these core associations was significant in building
the case and organizational support for faculty status for librarians. When collective bargaining came to the California
State University System in the early 1980s, librarians had established a strong community of interest with the faculty and
within the first decade of bargaining contracts achieved the same rights and responsibilities as other members of the California
State University faculty.
This collection consists of papers, publications, and articles related to the faculty status movement for academic librarians
in the 1970s and 1980s and especially within the California State University and Colleges System. Academic librarians faculty
status is defined as the same rights and responsibilities as other members of the faculty, including corresponding entitlement
to rank, promotion, tenure, compensation, leaves, and research funds, such as sabbaticals. This collection covers all these
topics and issues related to length of working year, qualifications for promotion, and layoff. The bulk of the material discusses
activities 1973-1980.
This collection is arranged into one series: Series I: California State University Librarians: Equal Pay, Comparable Worth
and Faculty Status, 1965-1980.
Edwards, Ralph M. The Role of the Beginning Librarian in University Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association, 1975,
pp. 26, 50, 85-86.
Galloway, R. Dean. Status or stasis: Academic librarians 10 years later. American Libraries, 10:6 (June 1979), pp. 349-352.
Josephine, Helen. Pay Equity: Comparable Worth Action Guide. Chicago: American Library Association, Office for Library Personnel
Resources T.I.P. kit no. 2, 1982.
Parker, J. Carlyle. Collective Bargaining in California. American Libraries 29:10 (November 1998), p. 38.
Reynolds, Judy. “Personnel Plan for Librarians”: The early years. California Librarian 38:4 (October 1977), pp. 45-48.
Reynolds, Judy, and Whitlatch, Jo Bell. Experiences with faculty status in academic libraries. California Librarian 37:1
(January 1976), pp. 32-35.
Reynolds, Judy, and Whitlatch, Jo Bell. Salary Equity. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University Library. 1979.
United Professors of California Collection, 1986/59, Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7w1006bm/
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Academic librarians –- Faculty status
San Jose State University (Calif.)
Pay equity
Equal pay for equal work