This union list of purchased audiovisual materials for bibliographic instruction is based on responses to a questionnaire survey and it represents the relevant holdings of 37 academic libraries in Illinois. Excluded from the list are materials clearly designated for students below the high school level, materials produced or published before 1965,…

This guide to the papers of John Hunter Walker (1872-1955) which are housed in the Illinois Historical Survey Library includes a biographical sketch of this prominent Illinois labor leader and key figure in both the Illinois State Federation of Labor and the United Mine Workers of America; an organizational statement explaining the acquisition of…

THIS MONOGRAPH IS A DISCUSSION OF FOUR ASPECTS OF STUDENT UNIONS. PART ONE DISCUSSES THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF A UNION AND THE UNION AS A CAMPUS CENTER. PART TWO DEALS WITH THE PLANNING OF UNION BUILDINGS AND GIVES PROCEDURES, PRINCIPLES AND CAUTIONS. UNION FACILITIES AND SERVICES ARE LISTED. PART THREE DISCUSSES THE ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES OF…

A THIRD OF ALL AMERICAN TEACHING EMPLOYEES IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION ARE COVERED BY SOME FORM OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, A SITUATION IN MANY RESPECTS PARALLEL TO THAT FOUND AMONG WORKERS IN THE PRIVATE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR. TEACHER CONTRACTS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY LESS RELIANCE ON SENIORITY, FEWER EMPLOYER PENALTIES, AND FEWER FRINGE BENEFITS, PRIMARILY…

This paper, addressed to public school employers, discusses lessons to be learned from the Wisconsin Legislature's passage of a 1978 law known as mediation-arbitration, which allows employers and unions to agree to an alternative voluntary impasse procedure to the one set forth in the statutes. First, the paper discusses the history of the agency…

Essays include: gentlemen and players, the changing British professoriate (Gareth Williams); the robed baron, the academic profession in the Italian university (Guido Martinotti, Alberto Giasanti); the changing role of the Japanese professor (William K. Cummings, Ikuo Amano); academic staff and academic drift in Australian colleges of advanced…

A handbook on higher education's actual experience with unionization to date provides detailed information and recommendations on all aspects of bargaining, from getting into the right mental framework for bargaining, through union elections and contract language, to administration of the agreement. It is explained how administrators can maintain…

Three thousand questionnaires were distributed by the Committee on Comparative Library Organization to identify and quantify some of the factors affecting the governance of academic libraries and to measure organizational changes within the libraries between 1971 and 1975. The questionnaire was specifically designed to measure the change in…

The second annual report of the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) documents the initiation of shared cataloging service to member libraries. Reports from several libraries recount their experiences in using the services of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) through SOLINET. Then the training program used to instruct staff members of 86…

This collective bargaining agreement between Rhode Island Board of Regents and Rhode Island College Chapter of the American Federation of Teachers covers a period from July 1, l975 through June 30, 1977. Articles include: (1) academic freedom; (2) selection of deans, vice presidents, and the president; (3) department chairmen; (4) department…

This collective bargaining agreement between the Board of Regents for Education and The Rhode Island College Staff Association of the American Federation of Teachers covers a period from July 1, l975 through June 30, 1977. Included is: (1) management rights; (2) nondiscrimination clause; (3) personnel files; (4) demotions and suspensions (5)…

A survey explored the possibility that itemizations of such things as faculty workloads and faculty-student ratios in collective bargaining agreements may be inhibiting innovative instructional development. Members of the Division of Instructional Development of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) were questioned…

The journals which 35 academic and special libraries in Massachusetts consider to be their education periodicals are listed alphabetically. Only those publications commonly known as journals are included except for the annuals, irregular serials, and monographic series which are indexed in either the "Current Index to Journals in…

This article reviews the current status of collective bargaining in higher education, with a special focus on representation in two-year institutions. After identifying the extent of representation by bargaining agents, the year in which first faculty collective bargaining contracts have been signed, and distinguishing among four-year and two-year…

This document, which is a general survey of recent developments in faculty collective bargaining, reports on: the extent of collective bargaining and its projected growth in the next two or three years; the patterns of faculty bargaining in the various states; governance; faculty senates; collective bargaining; and student involvement in the…