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Tables of Contents for The Library Paraprofessional
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Acknowledgments
iv
Introduction
1
18
Part I: The Psychological Texture of Today: The Plight of the Modern Library Paraprofessional
19
38
1. The Last 35 Years: Overview
20
14
2. Deprecation
34
13
3. "Professional" vs. "Nonprofessional": Getting the Picture Straight
47
6
4. "Nonlibrarian" Professionals in Libraries
53
4
Part II: Cycles in the History of American Library Workers
57
120
5. The Shifting Sands of Library Terminology
58
3
6. The Scene Is Set
61
2
7. Portrait of a Lady
63
4
8. Enter: "The Ideal Desk Assistant"
67
10
9. Promises, Promises...
77
6
10. "I Serve"
83
5
11. "Read, Read, Read, and Forever Read"
88
4
12. "The Cat Is Out of the Bag"
92
8
13. Nervous Breakdowns
100
11
14. A Few Voices of Reason
111
9
15. The "Dewey to Williamson" Period: Education for Librarianship in the Pioneering Years, 1887-1923
120
7
16. Slim Pickings: The 1920s to the 1960s
127
19
17. Things Heat Up: The Late 1960s and 1970s
146
10
18. Persistent Overlap
156
6
19. Paraprofessionals at the References Desk: A Trend of the 1980s, a Paradigm from the Nineteenth Century
162
10
20. Technology and the Paraprofessional
172
5
Part III. Sexism: Blueprint for Inequity, Then as Now
177
26
21. Women's Clubs: "Founding Mothers," the Earliest Paraprofessionals?
178
3
22. Shooting Ourselves in the Foot
181
6
23. Reproductive Curtailment
187
2
24. The "Weak" Woman
189
2
25. Inequity in Wages
191
4
26. How Others Shoot Us
195
8
Part IV: Changing Management
203
26
27. The "Bugaboo of Disloyalty"
204
4
28. Democratization of Management: "Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished"
208
17
29. Job Dissatisfacation
225
4
Part V. Burnout: The Need for Protection
229
46
30. Repression of Criticism
230
3
31. Problem Patrons in Public Service
233
9
32. The Library Circus and the Library Mission
242
8
33. Sick Buildings, Sick Workers
250
6
34. Unionism and Support Staff
256
11
35. Contract Workers, Unbenefited Part-Time Workers, Volunteers, and Students
267
3
36. Paraprofessional Associations
270
5
Part VI: Why the MLS?
275
28
37. Library Schools Under Fire
276
19
38. LTA Progarms and the Issue of Certification
295
5
39. Non-MLS-Holding Heads of Libraries
300
3
Conclusion
303
4
Appendix A: Interview with a Grade-1 Library Clerk
307
5
Appendix B: Interview with a Paraprofessional Library Worker at a Four-Year University Library
312
9
Bibliography
321
38
Index
359