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Dissertation Information for Eleanor Ransom Kulleseid

NAME:
- Eleanor Ransom Kulleseid

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1982)

ADVISORS:
- Kay Ellen Vandergrift

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Jane Anne Therese Hannigan

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: A study of survival: three New York City elementary school library media centers and their support components

Abstract: This study examines library media programs functioning at some level of adequacy in the 1979-80 school year, during a period of decline marked by reductions in program and staff. Settings included library media centers in three elementary schools, three district-level library media support components, and one at the City Board level. An exploratory case study incorporated several data collection techniques: structured interviews, structured and unstructured observations, and document analysis.

A number of factors were investigated for positive impact upon program survival. Among them were library media personnel's professional behaviors associated with the exercise of formal authority, the exercise of competencies in pedagogy and librarianship, and the exercise of informal influence through communication with constituencies within the school organization. Organizational factors were also examined, including working conditions prescribed by the teachers union contract, the merger of library media and audiovisual services, and formal procedures for evaluation of job performance and program.

Library media professionals had very little formal decision-making power at any level of the hierarchy. The exercise of informal influence was found to have the most positive impact upon program survival. This influence was acquired through entrepreneurial behaviors associated with voluntary expansion of professional role and increased frequency of communication with students, teachers, parents, administrators and other professionals. Increased communication was seen as a departure from organizational norms which tend to inhibit such behaviors.

Collective bargaining agreements also contributed significantly to survival through provisions for tenure, seniority, and for teacher preparation periods which required non-classroom cluster teaching positions to be maintained in every school. The use of library media specialists as cluster teachers, however, was found to have negative impact on library media programming. Knowledge of and participation in instructional development was found to be useful but not essential to survival. The provision of direct instruction to students made the exercise of pedagogical competencies in whole group instruction and classroom management vital to survival at the building level. Those associated with the library media field were more essential to the work of district and City Board library media professionals.

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calculated 2008-04-07 21:03:19

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