Judy Reynolds Papers: California State University Librarians: Equal Pay, Comparable Worth and Faculty Status, 1965-2000

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Summary

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.
Extent:
1 box (1.3 linear feet)
Language:
English and Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

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.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Processing information:

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

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into one series: Series I: California State University Librarians: Equal Pay, Comparable Worth and Faculty Status, 1965-1980.

Physical description:
1 Box, 15 Folders
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

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.

Location of this collection:
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0028, US
Contact:
408-808-2062
special.collections@sjsu.edu
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