Academic Freedom | Academic Librarians | Higher Education
August 27, 2018Elaine Franco didn’t think the title of her presentation at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting six years ago was all that controversial: "Copy cataloging gets some respect from administrators."
But an administrative colleague of Franco’s at the University of California at Davis raised concerns about the title, an allusion to Rodney Dangerfield’s "I don’t get no respect" catchphrase. When she saw the 2012 slide deck, which Franco had emailed her, she wondered if the title inappropriately implied that copy catalogers had been disrespected by administrators previously, Franco recalled.
The disagreement caught the attention of a union negotiator. And now the episode has helped set off a crusade for academic freedom for employees of the 100-library UC System, amid negotiations to replace a contract that is set to expire at the end of September. Read more...
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Courtesy of Holly Craig Wehrle
Librarians from across the U. of California system
gathered at UCLA last month during contract talks. Their union is
seeking explicit recognition of their academic freedom in a new
contract. Administrators disagree.
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