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Dissertation Information for Nancy Edith Peace

NAME:
- Nancy Edith Peace

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1980)

ADVISORS:
- Jane Anne Therese Hannigan

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Redmond Kathleen Molz
- Richard L. Darling

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous

Title: ATTITUDES OF PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIANS IN SELECTED RESEARCH LIBRARIES TOWARD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Abstract: Since the 1960s a growing number of academic librarians have joined labor unions, as have their colleagues on the teaching faculty. While numerous studies of faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining have appeared, only two have focused on academic librarians' attitudes. Undertaken when unionism was just beginning to become a significant phenomenon in higher education, the union experience of subjects participating in earlier library studies was necessarily limited. Furthermore, because these studies were exploring uncharted territory their research design focused on only a limited number of variables.

The present study was designed to expand on these earlier library studies. Like the earlier ones, the present study explored factors which appeared to cause academic librarians to desire collective bargaining. Drawing on recent research in higher education unionism, however, this study introduced into the research design variables not previously considered in library studies.

Because a sizeable number of academic librarians have joined unions since the earlier studies were completed, the present study was also able to examine how librarians' attitudes were translated into behavior at election time. In order to achieve this second research goal, the study population was limited to librarians in the nineteen Association of Research Libraries institutions which had had union elections involving a voting unit composed of faculty and librarians. Since union representation was elected at eleven institutions and rejected at eight, the study population was composed of union and nonunion members, permitting analysis of the effect of union membership on participants' attitudes toward collective bargaining.

The data gathering instrument was a twelve page questionnaire completed anonymously by participating librarians. Rate of response to the questionnaire was 72%.

Statistical analyses, including contingency tables and Pearson product-moment correlations were used to evaluate the relationship between selected demographic, occupational and attitudinal variables and librarians' attitudes toward collective bargaining. Several variables, including age, sex, attitude toward faculty status, attitude toward university and library administrations, level of participation in decision making and union membership proved significantly related to attitude toward collective bargaining.

Multiple regression analysis was employed to evaluate the relative impact of significant variables on the dependent variable, attitude toward collective bargaining. Using the eight most significant variables, a predictive model of librarians' interest in unionism was developed. The model explained approximately 28% of the variance, more than twice the amount explained by previous library research.

MPACT Scores for Nancy Edith Peace

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