This report contains information on State-by-State membership in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) locals in 1974; comparative national AFT membership data for the years 1970 through 1974; information on State federations and their officers; AFT administrator locals; percent of instructional staff in the United States by members of the AFT…

This dictionary of the abbreviations used to identify libraries in union catalogs, bibliographies, and other works is a master list of symbols used by the Library of Congress plus those developed by other bibliographers. Libraries in the United States and foreign countries and commercial producers of microforms are listed by abbreviation and by…

This union list contains over 100 microform music collections from eight libraries which are members of the Mountain-Plains Chapter of the Music Library Association. The 22-page list includes major sets, series, and complete works of composers. Excluded are periodicals, single work/dissertation titles, and general collections that are currently…

A description of unionization among college faculty from January 1 through December 31, 1987 focuses on agents elected, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the American Association of University Professors, no-agent elections, decertifications, strikes, legislation, demographic analysis, and first contracts…

Provides a directory of 136 assistantships in college unions and student activities from 47 schools. The first section is a tabular listing allowing comparison of assistantships. Information in this section is grouped by Association of College Unions International regions (a map delineating the regions is provided). The second section is a…

This publication is a status report on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in higher education in the United States for 1991. An introduction summarizes activity across the nation including agents elected, independent agents, decertification, strikes, legislation, first contracts signed, and demographic analysis. A table of faculty contracts…

This report presents information on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in public and private institutions of higher education. It begins with a listing of higher education institutions, by state, indicating the bargaining agent representing the regular college faculty, the unit size, date of current agent election, date of initial contract,…

Limited to books, this bibliography and union catalog list of the library holdings of 27 Oregon academic, public, government, and special libraries is a selection of resource materials intended to be representative of the concerns of librarians responsible for the management of special libraries and information centers. Organized by subject and…

This directory of contracts and bargaining agents in higher educational institutions summarizes the available data as of April 1977. Included in the 343 institutions with bargaining agents are over 500 campuses, or approximately one-sixth of the nation's campuses. The directory lists the bargaining agent for each institution, the year the agent…

Intended to furnish researchers with the location of source material relating to New Netherland, this guide describes the documents and collections held by United States repositories and provides accessibility to them by noting available printed or manuscript translations and indicating whether copies of the originals have been collected for the…

The document lists the 266 institutions of higher education, with 431 campuses, where faculty members have named agents to represent them. The list of agents includes: American Association of University Professors (AAUP), National Education Association (NEA), AAUP-NEA coalition, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (AFL-CIO), NEA-AFT, and…

Describes a project of the Association of College and Research Libraries to compile a union list of microforms dealing with the classical, medieval, and Renaissance periods. Goals of the project, questionnaire development, survey response, and questions raised by the project are discussed. The union list, including 101 titles and 45 libraries, is…

From zero in 1991 to 3,800 eighteen years later, charter schools (public schools under contract) today educate well over a million students. This updated, second edition examines the unusual experiment that is charter education and the controversies that surround public choice and charter schools as a means of educational reform. Written by…

This directory provides the 1990 collective bargaining results and union activity for higher education in the United States and Canada. Sections include lists of: (1) U.S. faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (2) U.S. adjunct faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (3) U.S. graduate and teaching assistant contracts and bargaining agents in…

This report describes job training and placement programs offered by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) for members dislocated by plant closings and job reductions. The first part of the booklet provides general information about the Steelworkers' worker assistance programs, including program summary, program principles, the comprehensive…