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Dissertation Information for Martha Jane Koontz Zachert

NAME:
- Martha Jane Koontz Zachert
- (Alias) Jane K. Zachert

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1967)

ADVISORS:
- Jack Dalton

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Russell Shank
- Alice Bryan
- Frances Henne
- Paul Witt

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: OBJECTIVES AND PATTERNS IN UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY SCIENCE EDUCATION

Abstract:
Diverse.influences have shaped library

science education
since academic education for the profession

began 1n
1887. It ls, therefore, understandable that

the agencies that
provide this education should display marked

d1fferences--a
tendency especlally characteristic of the

undergraduate programs.
The present study has examined several

commonly held
assumptions about these undergraduate

programs and has tested
hypotheses about variation in thelr

objectives.

Data were compiled in 1961-62 from United

States Office
of Education sources about selected

characteristics of the 563
institutions that offered library science in

1956. It appears ,
from these data that several assumptions

need to be modified
as follows: (1) The majority of the

undergraduate programs
are not located primarly in teachers

colleges, as has been
assumed for some years. Rather, the programs

studied were
located 1n six types of parent instiyutions:

combination
liberal arts-teacher education Institutions,

47 per cent;
l1beral arts collegedf, 16 per cent;-

universities without
graduate library schools, 13 per cent;

Junior collegee-13- per cent; teachers

colleges, 7 per cent; universities with
accredited graduate library schools, 5

percent. (2) Because
library science is taught in various

academic contexts, choice
of a single accrediting agency for

undergraduate programs is
not obvious. (3) The majority of programs

offer more than the
minimal introductory courses ,long assumed

to comprise the
In undergraduate programs. Forty-eight per

cent offered less
than twelve semester hours; the remainder

offered from twelve
to more than thirty. (4) Inasmuch as only 52

per cent of the
undergraduate library sclence, programs are

in publ1c tax supported
inst1tutions, trere can no longer be any

doubt that
privately controlled institutions from a

Significant segment
of undergraduate library science education.

Data to test the hypotheses ot the present

study were
collected {In 1961-62} from administrators

of undergraduate
library science programs, by questionairre

and from the printed
catalog of each institution. A one-third

stratifled sample
of 173 1nstitutions was used,

proportionately selected from
the six parent institution groups. Responses

trom adminitrators,indicate that there is,

as hypotheSized, a relationship
between the type ot parent, institution of a

library
science program and the objectives of that

program. , This
relationship is one of multiformity rather

than unlformity.

The questionnaire resposes also provided

data to . show
that, as hypothesized, there is a

relatlonship between the
obJectives of the undergraduate library

science programs and the school library

certification requirements of the home

states of the progams. The considerable

variation in the stste school library

certification regulations almost

automatically resulted in widespread

variation in the programs designed to

prepare students for certification.

The data provided tentative evidence that

six selected
administrative characteristics of the

undergraduate l1brary
science programs, such as their locus. in

their Institutional structure, the assigned,

duties of their admlnistrators, and
size of faculty, contrary to the

hypothesis,are unrelated to
the variation found In the obJectives of the

programs.
Analysis ot the questionnaire data by the

variable, of
the program objectives made eVident, as

hypothesized, three
career patterns (preparation for minimum

certification, preparation for continued

study 1n graduate library cchool,

preparation
for sub-professlonal library positions), and

one non-creer
pattern (preparation for personal academic

work). These four
objectives were held more offen in

combination than singly,
but no spec1fic combination of objectives

predominated in a
majority of the programs.
Finally, the data prov1ded evidence that

indivldual
var1ation in undergraduate library science

programs and ,
obJectives is likely ,to increase as

hypothesized, rather than decrease 'in the

foreseeable future" and that the expected
Changes are like1y to take place within the

patterns of variation
identified in th1s study.

MPACT Scores for Martha Jane Koontz Zachert

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Students under Martha Jane Koontz Zachert

ADVISEES:
- Barbara McCrimmon - Florida State University (1973)

COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Drucilla Motley - Florida State University (1972)