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Caption: UI Library School Alumni Newsletter - 35
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University of Illinois Library School / University of Illinois Library News STAFF ACCORDED ACADEMIC STATUS After thirty-three years under state and University civil se • systems, the University of Illinois professional library staff this fall b e ^ 115 a new status. Following long study and discussion by the Library admin tration, the University Civil Service Committee, and the University acln/" istration, a recommendation was made by President Willard, at the ]£** 22, 1944 meeting of the Board of Trustees, to include professional librarian! in the academic staff of the University, thereby removing them from the civil service organization. The proposal was adopted by the Trustees, and the University statutes were revised to name librarians specifically in the definition of academic staff. The change, now achieved, had been advocated for many years by the librarians, who believed that the civil service system had placed them under numerous disadvantages and that they did not properly belong in this category. The Library School faculty also aided by pointing out that the prestige and development of the School would be forwarded by proper recognition of the work of trained librarians. It is a compliment to the profession that everyone who studied the problem came to the conclusion that the librarians have a very close relationship to the educational program of the University and that their work is clearly academic in character. • ' . r 4 ! 01 LIBRARIANS' ASSOCIATION An organization of professional members of the University of Illinois Library staff was organized in November 1942 with the title of Librarians' Association. The Association rendered active and valuable assistance to the library administration in its efforts to remove the professional staff from civil service. The members of the Association are much pleased over the new academic status. ) Through its University Relations Committee, the Association sponsors a weekly program of book reviews by members of the Library Staff and University faculty, known as the "Library Hour." Displays of related books and material accompany the reviews. The "Library Hour" has evoked a great deal of interest among students, faculty, and townspeople. The Association also sponsors an interesting staff bulletin which is published monthly from October to June. Another project, a University Library manual, is in progress. Through its Victory Book Committee, the Association has collected, sorted, and classified a large number of gift books, sending more than 500 to the military camps in Illinois. Officers of the Association for 1944-45 are: President, Dorothy Black: President-Elect, Lyle Bamber; Secretary-Treasurer, Avis Auhl; J vecutive Committee members, Bernita Long and Marjoric Vivian. J
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