Opening the book on academic librarians: an agenda for investigating gender and professional status in a feminized profession

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dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Leona
dc.contributor.authorMellow, Muriel
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-28T22:29:18Z
dc.date.available2021-05-28T22:29:18Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractLibrarians, as an occupational group, appear to have received surprisingly little attention from those who study work and gender. Like other feminized occupations, such as midwives and nurses, this group is of interest for how they have engaged in a project of professionalization in recent decades. Academic librarians have faced challenges to fully realizing a professional status because of their traditional organizational position as helpers or handmaidens to the professoriate. In order to more thoroughly outline a research agenda for examining this occupational group, this paper will present a review of the literature on the organization of librarians’ work from a sociological and library science perspective, using Sociological Abstracts and Library Literature to identify resources. The co-authors on this paper contribute their individual expertise by examining the literature that emerges from their respective disciplines and by entering into a cross-discipline discussion that will articulate the potential theoretical and practical outcomes of such a research agenda.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJacobs, L., & Mellow, M. (2005, June). Opening the book on academic librarians: An agenda for investigating gender and professional status in a feminized profession. Paper presented at the 40th annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, London, ON.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5898
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLibraryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectFeminized professionen_US
dc.subjectFemale-dominated professions
dc.subjectWork and gender
dc.subjectProfessional status
dc.subjectLiterature review
dc.subjectSociological literature
dc.subjectLibrary literature
dc.subject.lcshAcademic librarians--Employment
dc.subject.lcshAcademic librarians--Faculty status
dc.titleOpening the book on academic librarians: an agenda for investigating gender and professional status in a feminized professionen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US
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